Painter who said that his pictures were “intended as haptic fictions, studio-formed but grounded in experience”. He studied at Leicester Polytechnic, 1968–9; St Martin’s School of Art, 1969–72; and University College, London, 1972–5. Exhibitions included Yarrow Gallery, Oundle, 1982; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, and Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, both 1983; D H Lawrence’s Landscape, at Nottingham Playhouse and Leicester Museum, 1985; and Art ’87 at Peterborough’s Lady Lodge Arts Centre, 1987. Peterborough City Museum, Eastern Arts and Leicestershire Education Authority hold Kirkwood’s work.