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John Kirby
b.1949
Painter, born in Liverpool. He was a shipping clerk, 1965–7, a bookshop salesman, 1967–9, then assistant to the director of Boys’ Town of Calcutta, 1969–71, after which he did various social work jobs until in 1982–5 he was at St Martin’s School of Art.
Text Source: 'Artists in Britain Since 1945' by David Buckman (Art Dictionaries Ltd, part of Sansom & Company)