Ian Massey
Dr Ian Massey is a UK-based independent art historian, writer and curator. He is the biographer of the artist Patrick Procktor RA, and has also written substantially on the work of Keith Vaughan and John Blackburn. His most recent book is Queer St Ives and Other Stories, published in 2022 by Ridinghouse. He is currently working on a book about the artist Mark Lancaster.
Almost twenty years ago, I began to research the life and work of the British painter Patrick Procktor, who died at sixty-seven, alcoholic, and largely forgotten, in the summer of 2003. My interest in the artist was roused by a memorial exhibition of his paintings, presented by the Redfern Gallery in London, less than eighteen months after his death.
