Ian McCulloch, RSA, was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1935. He studied at the Glasgow School of Art from 1953-1957. Following this, McCulloch worked as a lecturer of Fine Art at the University of Strathclyde, and in 1976 he completed an artist residency at the University of Sussex.
His works depict exaggerated figures, with stylistic references to the art of Dada and Surrealism.
He has said about his work: “The stylistic stance I adopt in my work is essentially modernist, with elements deriving from cubism, dada, and surrealism. This enables me to use myth and metamorphosis to examine and give form to my responses to an equivocal and paradoxical, often fearful, world. Such responses are mediated through painting, printmaking, and ceramics.”
