Hector McLean is a young, emerging painter who uses a range of painting materials. His artwork experiments with colour and structures and the figures that occupy those structures.

The artist composes scenes that collide the banality of everyday life with cinematic and commercial components. His ambiguous narratives create thought provoking yet accessible images that look to draw the viewer in.

McLean lives and works in Berlin.

Exhibitions

2013 NCN Final Show, Lace market School of Art and Design, Nottingham

2016 Third Try-Mester, St Margaret’s House, Edinburgh

2017 Genius Loci // The Texture of Longing, City Arts Centre, Edinburgh

2017 Open Contemporary Artist Award, The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle

2017 ECA Degree Show, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh

2018 Palestrino Studio Show, Pierluigi da Palestrino, Florence

*Upcoming – Homage to the Scream, Group Exhibition, Edinburgh

Private Collections

Charlie Jenkins; Camberwell, London

Christopher Pillar; White Coppice, Lancashire

Rachel Brooks; Dry Doddington, Lincolnshire

Olivia Davies; Preston, Lancashire

Ellie Olins; Hampstead, London

Miranda Sunnucks; Chisel Farm House, Dorset

Jacqueline Kirkpatrick; Glasgow

Anke Janssen; Kronberg, Frankfurt

Olivia Patteson Knight; Surrey, London

Grant Henderson; Edinburgh

Joanna Wickham; London

Chiara Von Puttkamer; Rödelheim, Frankfurt

Mariam Black; London