Chad McCail
Title: Small Tree
Date: 2009
Bronze, H 16 cms x D 9.5 x W 9
Small Tree is one of a number of formal studies Chad McCail made while working on a larger tree sculpture currently on display at the Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow.
Biography
Chad McCail was born in 1961 in Manchester and grew up in Edinburgh. He lives and works in Thankerton, South Lanarkshire. Having first read English at the University of Kent, he later graduated in Fine Art from Goldsmiths College, London, in 1989.
McCail’s work explores the links between sexual repression, violence and unquestioning obedience. Accompanied by slogan-like captions, his brightly coloured paintings and digital works are reminiscent of educational graphics but also draw on visual sources as various as Egyptian hieroglyphs and vintage science fiction.
Besides creating storyboards, free-standing panels and billboards he has published a graphic novel, Active Genital (2002), and an online sim-society game based on McCail’s drawings, spring_alpha, has been devised by Simon Yuill. |
