b. 1939, UK; lives and works in London
His first solo show was in 1975 at the Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh. Since then, he has had over forty solo shows from Canada to China, and participated in the important 1980 group show The New Generation, a Curator’s Choice at the AndreĢ Emmerich Gallery, NewYork. McLean has numerous works in public collections including The Tate, the Scottish Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow Museums and Art Galleries, the Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida and Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, USA.