Famous People with Name Currin

John Currin            Origin/Culture/Country: American

John Currin: an American painter. He is best known for satirical figurative paintings which deal with provocative sexual and social themes in a technically skillful manner.[1] His work shows a wide range of influences, including sources as diverse as the Renaissance, popular culture magazines, and contemporary fashion models.[2] He often distorts or exaggerates the erotic forms of the female body.In New York City in 1989 he exhibited a series of portraits of young girls derived from the photographs in a high school yearbook, and initiated his efforts to distill art from traditionally clichéd subjects. In the 1990s, when political themed art works were favored, Currin brazenly used bold depictions of busty young women, mustachioed men and asexual divorcés,

Brian Currin            Origin/Culture/Country: African

Brian Currin: specializing in labour law and civil and human rights. He is qualified as an attorney in South Africa and now works in mediation and institutional transformation. In 1994 he was appointed by South Africa President Nelson Mandela to chair a Prison Audit Committee and was subsequently involved in the creation of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 1987 he founded the National Directorate of Lawyers for Human Rights which he headed for eight years. He has worked in Sri Lanka, Rwanda and the Middle East on political transformation. Mr Currin now co-chairs the Sentence Review Commission in Northern Ireland, which decides on the early release of prisoners who have committed terrorism-related offences. In 2000, he became an independent mediator in the Drumcree parading dispute and said that he hoped he could achieve a breakthrough in the mediation role because he was a completely independent outsider. But he quit his role in December 2001, saying that as Portadown Orangemen had withdrawn from dialogue, he was "unable to take the process any further". He said the Orangemen had blamed their decision a lack of trust in the nationalist Garvaghy Road Residents' Coalition, which opposes their proposed Drumcree parade route.

David Maney Currin, Sr.            Origin/Culture/Country: American

David Maney Currin, Sr.: was a Tennessee attorney and politician who served in the Confederate States Congress during the American Civil War.Following the state's ordinance of secession and the outbreak of the Civil War, he was a delegate from Tennessee to the Confederate Provisi