Neil McCulloch

Fine Art MFA

‘ALMOST ALWAYS’ is a humorous exploration of the unconscious, depth psychology and psychiatry through the lens of psychotic experience.

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Neil McCulloch

Neil McCulloch (b.1982) is a Contemporary Scottish Artist. Experimental in approach, McCulloch traverses a wide range of mediums but his current work ‘ALMOST ALWAYS’ features large scale plaster sculptures that give form to the formlessness of subconscious material revealed through psychosis. The artist utilises personal historic experience in this regard. The sculptures also take cues from depth psychology, as well as viewing psychosis as profound spiritual experience and religious symbology as synonym or personification of the unconscious.

The sculptural elements are supported by three film works and four prints. The A1 prints are archived images (credit to: University of Dundee Archive Services) that document patients who resided in Sunnyside Hospital near Montrose and Murray Royal Hospital, Perth in the early 20th century.

Image of plaster sculture of a B-61 Nuclear Missile balanced upon three wooden trestles.The sculpture is connected to a wall mounted sculpture of a hand and forearm, the hand bears a hole in the middle reminiscent of the stigmata. The chain goes through the whole and around the wrist and is attached to the missile. Behind this is an a star act crucifix covered with earth wire electrical tape, underneath is a menacing piece of digging equipment that looks like jaws with teeth.
A group of plaster sculptures denoting abstract figures and a nuclear missile sculpture with dog ears sit in a white walled studio space.
An abstract plaster figure with no arms and exaggerated features sits on a blue table, underneath the table is a wooden frame covered in earth wire electrical tape. To the right on the floor lies a cubed plaster sculpture full of hands, a foot and a lifting tube protruding on top of a blue cross. Behind the sculptures is a 55 inch screen with a film playing.
On the left of the image the tip of a nuclear missile can be seen. The main work is an abstract sculpture on a plinth , with two prints on either side of black and white archived photographs of figures. The prints can only be partially seen.

Neil McCulloch, Masters Showcase Preview

A video tour Neil McCulloch’s installation for Fine Art Masters Showcase 2023

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