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Bruce McLean

born 1944

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Biography

Bruce McLean (born 1944) is a Scottish sculptor, performance artist and painter.

McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, from 1963 to 1966. At Saint Martin's, McLean studied with Anthony Caro and Phillip King.In reaction to what he regarded as the academicism of his teachers he began making sculpture from rubbish.

McLean has produced paintings, sculptures, ceramics, prints, work with film, theatre and books. McLean was Head of Graduate Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art London He has had one man exhibitions including Tate Gallery in London, Arnolfini, Bristol, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, The Modern Art Gallery in Vienna and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.

In 1985, he won the John Moores Painting Prize.

Mclean lives and works in London. His son is the architect Will McLean.

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  • Their Grassy Places

    Bruce McLean
    1969
  • Hot Slick

    Bruce McLean
    1989
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  • Large Warhead

    Bruce McLean
    1984
  • Untitled

    Bruce McLean
    1985
  • Kilometre Theatre

    Bruce McLean
    1998
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  • A Pavilion for Parliament

    Bruce McLean
    1998
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  • An Ideal Home

    Bruce McLean
    1998
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  • Designer Traffic Jam - Celebration of an Intersection

    Bruce McLean
    1998
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  • Pose Work for Plinths I

    Bruce McLean
    1971
  • Pose Work for Plinths 3

    Bruce McLean
    1971
  • Study towards the Object of the Exercise

    Bruce McLean
    1978

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