Bruce McLean 'Pose Work For Plinths I & III from Tate Etc magazine with text by Andrew Wilson

CHELSEA space was delighted to see Andrew Wilson’s piece on Bruce McLean and Nice Style (The World’s First Pose Band) in the Summer 2011 edition of Tate Etc magazine. CHELSEA space exhibited a lot of Bruce’s Nice Style and Pose material as part of Process Progress Project Archive in 2006 and we returned to it with a new installation based on Nice Style’s High Up On A Baroque Palazzo as the opening event for our 5th year anniversary celebrations - Should I Stay Or Should I Go in 2010.

Bruce McLean Nice Style and Pose installation at CHELSEA space 2006

Bruce McLean 'High Up On A Baroque Palazzo' installation, CHELSEA space 2010

Bruce came down to CHELSEA space the other day and he brought a photograph of an early Pose work to show us

Bruce McLean with an early Pose Pic

For this particular Pose he had jammed himself in a space between two walls

Bruce McLean explains to us the finer points of Pose

We think its one of his finest

Prop Pose

By Coincidence, artists Juan Cruz and Brian Chalkley were both passing by so there was chance for a quick formal pose but its not like the old days and they couldn’t keep it up for long

Juan Cruz Bruce McLean Brian Chalkley

laughing posing