Pete McKee

Pete McKee
File:Pete mckee.jpg Pete McKee - The artist at work
Born	Peter McKee
Nationality	English
Known for	Painting, Cartoons
Patron(s)	Noel Gallagher

Pete McKee (1966 - ) is a painter and commercial artist from Sheffield, England. He is a cartoonist for the Sheffield Telegraph’s sports section. He has exhibited regularly around the north of England. Using bright colours his larger than life, often humorous characters inhabit a world of working men's clubs, bingo halls and family trips to the seaside. Football is also heavily featured in his work although he regularly depicts fans from both halves of the footballing divide in Sheffield: Sheffield United and Sheffield Wednesday, the team he himself supports.

Biography

File:The bargain pete mckee.jpg

"The Bargain", a painting by Pete McKee

Pete Mckee was born in February, 1966, and grew up on a Sheffield council estate.

McKee decided to concentrate on his painting in 2004 and began by painting with emulsion on MDF boards.

McKee opened his first ever London show, entitled ‘Lost Weekends’ in 2007 and has also exhibited in Birmingham and New York since then. Subsequently he was commissioned by Acme studios to interpret characters from US TV shows The Simpsons, Family Guy and Futurama.

In 2007 McKee was commissioned by Oasis guitarist Noel Gallagher to paint him as part of Gibson Guitar’s “Guitar Town” show. McKee painted a portrait of the guitarist onto a 10 foot fibreglass guitar which was displayed as part of the open air exhibition on London’s South Bank.

Exhibitions

• Urban Legends (November 2004)
• A Month of Sundays (January 2005)
• The Boy with a Leg Named Brian (October 2005)
• Northern Soul (November 2005)
• Jumpers for Goalposts (July 2006)
• Wish you were here (June 2006)
• Loneliness of a Fat Distance Runner (October 2006)
• Lost Weekends (November 2006)
• A Month of Sundays (June 2007)
• 33 1/3 (April 2008)

External Links

• Pete McKee
• BBC interview