“Hot Slick “

Year	1989
Size	153 x 89 cm
Medium	silkscreen
Edition Size	50 (13/50)
Signature	lower right in pencil

Bruce McLean is a Scottish artist known for his diverse artistic practice, which includes sculpture, performance, painting, and printmaking, particularly silkscreen printing. McLean is not typically associated with abstract expressionism in the traditional sense, although his work does incorporate abstract elements and often challenges the conventions of art. He is recognized for this challenging and often humorous approach to art, questioning traditional notions of sculpture and art itself. McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at Saint Martin's School of Art, London, from 1963 to 1966. At Saint Martin's, McLean studied with Anthony Caro and Phillip King. In reaction to what he regarded as the academicism of his teachers he began making sculpture from rubbish.
 McLean was Head of Graduate Painting at The Slade School of Fine Art London. He has had one man exhibitions including Tate Gallery in London, Arnolfini, Bristol, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, The Modern Art Gallery in Vienna and Museum of Modern Art, Oxford.
 In 1985, he won the John Moores Painting Prize.
 Mclean lives and works in London. His son is the architect Will McLean.