Primary Space - Dalry Primary School, North Ayrshire, Scotland
Bruce McLean CV
Lead Artist for Primary Space
1944 - Born in Glasgow
Education
1961-63 Glasgow School of Art
1963-66 St Martins School of Art
Teaching
Slade School of Fine Art - Professor, Head of Graduate Painting (retired September 2009)
Solo Exhibitions
1969
- Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf
1970
- 'King for a Day', Nova Scotia; College of Art Gallery, Halifax
1971
- 'Objects no Concepts', Situation, London; Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
1972
- 'King for a Day', Tate Gallery, London;Galeria Françoise Lambert, Milan
1975
- 'Early Works 1967-1975', Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
- Robert Self Gallery, Newcastle; 'Nice Style: The End of an Era 1971-1975', PMJ Self, London
1977
- 'New Political Drawings', Robert Self Gallery, London and Newcastle
1978
- 'The Object of the Exercise?' The Kitchen, New York
1979
- University Gallery, Southampton; Barry Barker, London; Ink, Zurich
1980
- 'New Works and Performance/Actions Positions', Third Eye Centre, Glasgow and touring to Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, and Arnolfini, Bristol
1981
- Chantal Crousel, Paris; Musee d'Art et Industrie, St Etienne Art and Project, Amsterdam; Kunsthalle, Basel
1981
- Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London (and 1985/86/87)
1982
- Karansha Gallery, Tokyo (and 1983/84/88); Greta Insax, Vienna
- Mary Boone Gallery, New York; Modern Art Galerie, Vienna
- Chantal Crousel, Paris
1982/83
- Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1983
- Kiki Maier-Hahn, Dusseldorf; DAAD Gallery, Berlin
- Dany Keller, Munich
- Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
- Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
- Galerie Fahnemann, Berlin
- Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe
Selected Group Exhibitions
1980
- 'Dokumentation 7' Ink, Zurich
- 'Art in the Seventies', Biennale, Venice
1981
- 'A New Spirit in Painting', Royal Academy of Arts, London
- 'New Work', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
- 'The 4th Sydney Biennale', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
- 'British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century', Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1982
- 'Aspects of British Art Today', British Council touring exhibition,
Japan; 'Document 7', Museum Fredericianum, Kassel - 'Zeitgeist', Hartin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
- Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1983
- 'Thought and Action', Laforet Museum, Tokyo
- 'Art in Aid of Amnesty', Work of Art Gallery, London
- 'New Art', Tate Gallery, London
- 'December Exhibition', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1984
- 'When Attitudes Become Form', Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
- 'The Critical Eye', Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven, Connecticut
- 'An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture', Museum of Modern Art, New York
- 'The British Art Show', Arts Council Touring Exhibition
1985
- 'Bilder fur Frankfurt', Bestandausstellung des Museums fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main
- 'John Moores Liverpool Exhibition 14, Walker Art Gallery
- 'Towards an Art of Peace Biennale', Rane Block. Hamburg
- 'Homage au Gezmes', I.C.C., Berlin
1985
- 'Sculptor's Drawings', Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh
- '7000 Oaks', Kunsthalle, Tubingham
1985/86
- '11 European Painters', National Gallery, Athens
1986
- 'Peter Moores Liverpool Project 8: Out of Line', Walker Art Gallery
- 'The Sydney Biennale', Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1987
- 'British Art in the 20th Century', Royal Academy, London
- ''Current Affairs', Museum of Modern Art Oxford: a British Council exhibition touring to the National Gallery, Prague
- 'Vessel', Serpentine Gallery, London; 'Viewpoint: British Art of the 1980's'
Collections and Commissions
Aberdeen Art Gallery; Arts Council of Great Britain; The British Council; Contemporary Arts Society; Saatchi Collection; Galerie Gayrek; Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries; Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Het Kruithaus Kunstmuseum, Hertogenbosch; L A Louver Gallery; Laine Art Gallery; National Museum of Modern Art, Osaka; South Bank Centre, London; Tate Gallery, London; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Japan; University of Southampton; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Royal Festival Hall, London; Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol; Union Bank of Switzerland, London; Canary Wharf, London; Royal Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh; National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh; British Rail; Glaxo Holdings; Scottish Airports, Glasgow; Broadgate, London; Ludgate Development, London; Credit Suisse, Canary Wharf; Bridlington South Foreshore Promenade; Slough Estates; Tottenham Hale Station; Laing Construction; Ayrshire Council; Royal Museum of Scotland
Awards
1965
- Pratt Bequest for Sculptor
1966
- Sainsbury Award for Sculptor
1975
- Major Arts Council of Great Britain Award
1978
- Arts Council Bursary
1981
- DAAD Fellowship, Berlin
1985
- Mercedes Benz Prize
- John Moores 1st Painting Prize
1994
- Royal Television Society Design Award for Production Design
(non-drama)
1995
- Lords Provost Prize, Glasgow
