A Peeled and Carefully Faceted Golden Wonder Sculpture Against a Two Grey Background, 2013
Bruce McLean was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1944. He studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at Saint Martin’s School of Art in London from 1963 to 1966. His work encompasses sculpture, painting, printmaking, pottery and performance art.
He is known as a central figure in British Conceptual art. Influenced by his tutor Sir Anthony Caro, amongst others, he experimented with making formalist sculptures out of impermanent materials such as ice, mud and rubbish. Most of these works only survive as documentation photography.
McLean has exhibited widely, including Tate Gallery in London, The Modern Art Gallery in Vienna and Museum of Modern Art in Oxford. In 1985 he won the John Moores Painting Prize.
