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- Bruce McLean
- Landscape Painting
- 1968
- GMA 3572
- Scottish Art
- Bruce McLean
- Glass on Glass on Glass on Grass
- 1969
- GMA 4666
- Scottish Art
- Bruce McLean
- The Gucci Girls
- 1984
- GMA 3996
- Scottish Art
Bruce McLean (Scottish, born 1944)
Born in Glasgow, McLean studied at Glasgow School of Art and, from 1963 to 1966, at St Martin's School of Art in London. Influenced by tutor Anthony Caro, McLean experimented with making formalist, floor-based sculpture in materials such as steel and fibreglass. However, by 1967 he was beginning to satirize such work, placing bits of junk in tasteful compositions on the pavement or in his sitting room. These works led to others, in which mud and ice were arranged to form abstract sculpture. These now survive only in photographs - as, indeed, they were meant to. In later years, McLean became interested in social issues, such as wealth and class. His oeuvre comprises sculpture, painting, printmaking, pottery and performance art.
