Will Maclean (1941 – )

Biography: Will Maclean RSA was a midshipman before studying art at Gray’s School of Art in Aberdeen. He has exhibited widely since 1967 throughout the UK and abroad, and has recently also collaborated with his wife and fellow artist Marian Leven. In 1981 he started lecturing at Duncan of Jordanstone, where he was appointed Professor of Fine Art in 1994, and he is now Emeritus Professor. In his art, ‘Maclean gives a voice, or more accurately, voices to a range of communities which did not have a voice or whose voices were subjugated by powerful hegemonic interests of profit or control; they could be crofters cleared from the land, people stripped of their language, or people tied to industries such as fishing or whaling which are now residual in a society driven by the demands of late Capitalism’. Lindsay Blair