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John Mclean 约翰·麦克林
Colour is at the root of all John McLean's paintings. He worked on a large scale, painting spontaneously onto the canvas using fluid paints to make abstract and rhythmic compositions that suggest light and space. The artist's shapes became more formal throughout his lifetime, introducing a minor degree of narrative, meaning any shape could be open to interpretation as a sign or metaphor. McLean regarded the abstract elements in his work as being informed by external experience and having an emotional dimension.
Education
1957-1962 University of St Andrews, St Andrews, UK
1963-1966 Courtauld Institute of Art, London, England
Selected Solo exhibition
2021 John McLean: Forza: Works on paper, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh John McLean: Forza: Prints, The Fine Art Society, London
2020 Lighthouse: Go Back to John McLean and his time, LAN Gallery, Shenzhen Becoming John McLean, PIFO Gallery, Beijing
2019 Being John McLean (1939-2019): A Memorial Exhibition, Art Space Gallery, London John McLean: Behind the Mirror, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
2018 John McLean: The Boston Pictures 1982, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh Encounters: John McLean · Wang Jian, PIFO Gallery, Beijing
2017 Like Singing and Dancing: John McLean’s Abstract Painting, Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2016 Like Singing and Dancing: John McLean’s Abstract Painting 1969-, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing Maddox Arts, London The Cut Arts Centre, Halesworth, Suffolk
2014 Norwich Cathedral, Norwich Cross Street Gallery, London
2013 The Fine Art Society, London
2011 Cross Street Gallery, London
2010 Jesus College, Cambridge Bourne Fine Art Gallery, Edinburgh School House Gallery, Norfolk
2009 Broadbent Gallery, London Poussin Gallery, London
2008 Cross Street Gallery, London
2007 Broadbent Gallery, London Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, London Poussin Gallery, London
2006 Cross Street Gallery, London Flowers East, London
2005 Flowers, New York
2003 Flowers Central, London Bourne Fine Art Gallery, Edinburgh Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
2000 Flowers East, London Flowers Graphics, London Bourne Fine Art Gallery, Edinburgh Flowers East, London Art Placement Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1999 Flowers East, London Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh
1998 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London Bourne Fine Art Gallery, Edinburgh
1997 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
1994 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
1991 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
1989 Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
1988 Kapil Jariwala Gallery, New York Francis Graham-Dixon Gallery, London
1987 Kapil Jariwala Gallery, London
1986 Department of Architecture, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh 1985 Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
1984 Martin Gerrard Gallery, Edmonton,
1983 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1982 Artspace Galleries, Aberdeen Byck Gallery, Louisville, Kentucky
1981 Art Placement Saskatoon, Saskatchewan
1980 Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London
1978 House Gallery, London
1975 Talbot Rice Gallery, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2021 Listing, PIFO Gallery, Beijing St Ives & Modern British 2021, Belgrave St. Ives, St. Ives Modern, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh
2020 Christmas, The Fine Art Society, Edinburgh Reduct: Abstraction and Geometry in Contemporary Scottish Art,Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 50 Years, Flowers Gallery, London
2019 Summer Exhibition 2019, Gallery Ⅲ, London Abstract Art 12, PIFO Gallery, Beijing Small is Beautiful. XXXVII, Flowers, London
2018 Resonance: John McLean & Tan Ping, DE Gallery, Xiamen PERFECT: Buddhism and Art, PUTIAN Art Museum, FuJian
2017 Decade: Abstract Art 10, PIFO Gallery, Beijing
2016 Poetic Community, The Art Space of the Comprehensive Cultural Platform in the Bonded Area, Xiamen
2015 Construction Industry, APT Gallery, London Stockwell Depot 1967-1979, University of Greenwich Galleries, London
2014 APT group show, Pulchri Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands
2013 Masterpieces, Art and East Anglia Sainsbury Centre UEA Norwich, Nowich Three Modern British Artists: Roger Hilton, John McLean, John Wells, Wilson Stephens & Jones, London
2011 Talbert McLean and John McLean (father and son), Bourne Fine Art Gallery, Edinburgh Colour and Substance, Poussin Gallery, London Invaluable, APT Gallery, London
2009 Northern Print Biennale, Newcastle
2008 Form and Space, Poussin Gallery, London
2007 Select, Bourne Fine Art Gallery, Edinburgh
2006 Seventies Abstract Painting, Part II, Poussin Gallery, London
1996 The Jerwood Painting Prize, Lethaby Galleries, London
1994 British Abstract Art, Part I Painting, Flowers East, London Lead and Follow, the Continuity of Abstraction, Robert Loder Collection, London Paintmarks, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
1993 British Contemporary Art, Kultur Abteilung Bayer, Leverkusen
1989 John Moore’s Liverpool Exhibition, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool Group show, Galerie d’ Art Stewart Hall, Montreal
1982 The Heritage of Jack Bush, a tribute, The Robert McLaughlin Gallery, Ottawa Recent British Painting, small works, a selection by Tim Hilton, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
1980 Hayward Annual, Hayward Gallery, London The New Generation, a curator’s choice, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
1979 Festival Exhibition, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh
1977 British Painting 1952-1977, The Royal Academy of Arts, London Four Abstract Artists, the Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1976 New Painting and Sculpture, Stockwell Depot, London
1974 British Painting ’74, Hayward Gallery, London
1971 Cézanne is the Father of Modern Painting, Serpentine Gallery, London Big Paintings for Public Places, Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
1970 London Group 1970, Member’s Choice, RA Galleries, Burlington House, London
1966 Exhibition of Kinetic Art, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry
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