Bruce McLean (born1944) is a Scottish performance artist and painter. McLean was born in Glasgow[1] and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at St Martin's School of Art, London,from 1963 to 1966.[2] where his sculpture class was taken by Anthony Caro.[3] In a reaction to the attitude of the latter he began making sculpture from rubbish.[4] He has gained international recognition for his paintings,ceramics, prints, work with film, theatre and books.[5] McLean is Head of Graduate Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art London [6] He has had numerous one man exhibitions including Tate Gallery in London, The Modern Art Gallery in Vienna and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.[7] Mclean lives and works in London.
References
- ^ http://the-artists.org/artist/Bruce_Mclean.html
- ^ http://www.tate.org.uk/servlet/ArtistWorks?cgroupid=999999961&artistid=1610&page=1&sole=y&collab=y&attr=y&sort=default&tabview=bio
- ^ http://www.qmul.ac.uk/alumni/publications/quad/quad14.pdf
- ^ http://collection.britishcouncil.org/html/artist/artist.aspx?id=17824
- ^ http://www.studio18.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=171_181
- ^ http://www.ucl.ac.uk/slade/slade09/gStud/index.php
- ^ http://www.nantais-gallery.co.uk/exhibit/modern_british_artists/biog_bruce_mclean.htm
