BOURNE FINE ART
MARCH 5-APRIL 3
John McLean Sculptures
Traffic Yellow, steel, powder-coated steel and powder
coated aluminium, 102˝ x 55 x 33˝”
This is the first sculpture exhibition by the abstract artist John McLean. Born in Liverpool from Scottish parents, John studied at St Andrews University and the Courtauld Institute of Art. He taught at art schools in London and had his first solo exhibition in 1975.
He says: “Making sculpture is more an impulse than an idea for me. An artist’s intentions are multiplex and hard to pin down. And even when they can be clearly articulated, they are not necessarily relevant. Ideally, no one should be suggesting what the viewer ought to see. I have always wanted my art to speak for itself.”
“All of my free-standing pieces are close to my paintings and collages. They have the same vocabulary of simple shapes and are equally reliant on colour. Polychromy in sculpture never died out, but since Cubism it has had new vigour.”
“No matter what the medium, I work towards such an interdependence of parts that nothing could be added or taken away - a kind of absolute. When it happens, the eye and the spirit join up, just as the ear and soul do when you listen to a fine song.”
Bourne Fine Art
6 Dundas St.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh
0131 557 4050
M-F 10a-6p, Sa 11a-2p
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