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Garden Ware Tableware

Acclaimed conceptual artist Bruce McLean debuted a vast new body of work titled Garden Ware which was on exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum for the London Design Festival 2017. The collection includes one-off earthenware creations by Bruce, including vases, bowls, platters as well as tableware. Stemming from a series of 50 Platters, Bruce selected 4 artworks that have...
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Garden Ware Vessels

Acclaimed conceptual artist Bruce McLean debuted a vast new body of work titled Garden Ware which was on exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum for the London Design Festival 2017. The collection includes one-off earthenware creations by Bruce, including vases, bowls, platters as well as tableware.
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Potato

Conceptual artist Bruce McLean has previously created a body of work on the humble potato with a series of artworks and sculptures. Following on from the Tangerine created in 2017 for an exhibition within the Victoria and Albert Museum, Bruce has peeled two potatoes which 1882 Ltd. has in turn made into a limited edition of 100 fine bone china...
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Garden Ware Production Jugs

Acclaimed conceptual artist Bruce McLean debuted a vast new body of work titled Garden Ware which was on exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The collection includes one-off earthenware creations by McLean, including vases, bowls, platters as well as tableware. As part of the collection one vessel form has been reproduced to create a series of production...
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Garden Ware Platters

Acclaimed conceptual artist Bruce McLean debuted a vast new body of work titled Garden Ware which was on exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum for the London Design Festival 2017. The collection of platters includes one-off earthenware creations by Bruce.
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1882 Ltd. Candles

Celebrating our differences 1882 Ltd. launches its first collection of candles with Max Lamb, Bethan Gray, Snarkitecture and Bruce McLean. The vessels are all so very different highlighting the brilliance of design and making synonymous with 1882 Ltd. 1882 Ltd. also launches its first diffuser with Max Lamb as part of the Crockery collection. The vessel uses reeds to release...
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Tangerine

A limited edition of 50 fine earthenware tangerines. Bruce McLean invented the ‘Tangerine Test,’ to assure himself that the quality of jug or painting was excellent. Simply put, if the object looked good with a tangerine, then it passed the test and was ready to display. However these ceramic tangerines turn the test on its head. A compact piece of conceptual art by...
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Bruce McLean

Bruce McLean (b. 1944) studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963. From 1963 – 66 he attended St Martin’s School of Art, London, where he famously reacted against the formalist academic teaching of teachers such as Anthony Caro, Phillip King and William Tucker. In 1966 he abandoned conventional studio practice for impermanent sculptures made using materials such as water, along with performances of a generally satirical and subversive nature. In ‘Pose Work for Plinths I’ (1971; London, Tate), photographs record a performance in which McLean appeared in a variety of different positions on plinths to parody the poses of Henry Moore’s celebrated reclining figures. When in 1972 he was offered an exhibition at the Tate Gallery, he opted, with mocking intent, for a retrospective lasting only one day. He has continued to use humour to confront the pretensions of the art world and wider social issues such as the nature of bureaucracy and institutional politics. From the mid 1970s, while continuing to mount occasional performances, McLean turned increasingly to painting and most recently to ceramics.

McLean has participated in many major international exhibitions since the 1960s, highlights include: When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle, Bern (1969); Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York (1970); The British Avant Garde, New York Cultural Centre (1971); Documenta 6, Kassel (1977); Art in the Seventies, Venice Biennale (1980); A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy, London; Zeitgeist, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (1982); Documenta 7, Museum Fredericianum, Kassel (1982); Thought and Action, Laforet Museum, Tokyo (1983); The Critical Eye, Yale Centre for British Art, New Haven (1984); Out of Actions; Between Performance and the Object, 1949-79, 1985 he was awarded the John Moores Painting Prize. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1997); Bruce McLean and William Alsop, Two Chairs, Milton Keynes Gallery (2002) and Body and Void: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art,

The Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire (2014). First Site, Colchester (2014) and ‘A Hot Sunset and Shade Paintings’ Bernard Jacobson (2016).

McLean’s work is in private and public collections around the world.