Room for Improvement (1994) Silkscreen on Handmade Wove Paper by Bruce McLean

Bruce McLean (b.1944)

Room for Improvement, 1994

Silkscreen

Signed in pencil, numbered edition 77/100

64 x 62 cm

Room for Improvement is a a limited edition silkscreen print (numbered 77/100 and signed by McLean in pencil). Produced in 1994 by Coriander Press.

Visually and conceptually, the work sits within McLean’s long-standing project of subverting traditional art conventions: he has often interrogated notions of value, permanence, and the institutional art world.

Part of a series (Room for a View — A Double Glazed Patio Door or Room for Manoeuvre — A Three Point Turn) these works centre on the notion of movement and how we articulate in modern spaces and the possibilities (or absurdities) of rearrangement, re-framing or re-thinking both physical and conceptual environments.

Artist Biography

Bruce McLeanwas born in Glasgow, 1944.) He is known for his witty, subversive approach to contemporary art. Trained at Glasgow School of Art and Central Saint Martins, McLean emerged in the late 1960s as a key figure in conceptual and performance art, challenging the seriousness and conventions of traditional sculpture through irreverent, often satirical works.

Over his long career, he has worked across sculpture, performance, photography, painting, and printmaking, maintaining a playful critique of the art world throughout. McLean won the John Moores Painting Prize in 1985 and later served as Professor of Fine Art at the Slade School of Fine Art. His work is held in major collections, including the Tate, and he remains celebrated for his bold, inventive, and humorous rethinking of what art can be.

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