About the Artist

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Will Maclean

Born Inverness 1941

Educated, Inverness Royal Academy and HMS Conway N. Wales.

Gray’s School of Art, Aberdeen and British School at Rome.

Member of the Royal Scottish Academy; The Royal Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts; Honorary Doctor of Letters University of St. Andrews 2000; MBE 2006;

Emeritus Professor University of Dundee 2007; Honorary Fellow of the University of the Highlands 2008; Honorary Doctor of Letters University of Aberdeen 2009; Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 2010. Hon. Fellow Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland 2023

Awards include- Scottish Arts Council Award; Scottish Education Trust Bursary; Civic Trust Award; National Heritage Award; Spirit of Scotland Award; Creative Scotland Award. Saltire Society Award.

Solo Publications Include - Sculpture and Box Constructions Woods/Runkel, London;

Symbols of Survival Prof. D. Macmillan Mainstream Edinburgh; Selected Affinities, University of Dundee;

Cardinal Points. L. Reuter Museum of North Dakota.

Driftworks, Dundee Contemporary Arts.

Atlantic Messengers T. Normand Art First London

Collected Works Fleming - Wyfold Art Foundation London.

Will Maclean Point of Departure. Sansom and Company 2022.

Ghost Boats, Beag Press 2024

Public Collections include - British Museum; Scottish Parliament; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art; Gallery of Modern Art Glasgow; Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge. Yale Centre for British Art USA. North Dakota Museum of Art; Art Gallery of Newfoundland; McMaster Museum Ontario Canada; Government Art Collection. Arts Council of Great Britain.

Will Maclean is represented by Art First London; Galerie Herold in Germany & Fine Art Society, Edinburgh.