(b Glasgow, 11 May 1934). Scottish sculptor, performance artist and painter. He studied law at the University of Glasgow (1955-6) but received no formal art training. He had a number of jobs until devoting himself entirely to art in 1958, when he met the artist Joan Hills (b Edinburgh, 1936) and began living and working with her. His earliest works were paintings, which were featured in his first one-man show in 1963. From 1964 he organized a series of events presented in front of an audience, beginning with Suddenly Last Supper (1964) at a flat in London. This consisted of films projected on to a variety of surfaces, including a reproduction of Botticelli's Birth of Venus (original Florence, Uffizi) projected on to a nude woman in the same pose; the films were destroyed by fire or acid while still running, and during the performance the entire contents of the flat were removed, leaving the audience alone. Another event staged in London in 1964 was The Street, in which a group of people was led unknowingly into the back of a shop; once they were in place a screen was pulled back to reveal the street outside, with the variety of its activity presented as a 'found' performance.
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