A leading Australian painter, draughtsman, art critic and writer,
McCulloch was born in Melbourne. He worked for 18 years in a
bank studying at various melbourne art schools and studios by
night. He subsequently travelled extensively in Europe and North
America. McCulloch's best known paintings can be best described
as Expressionistic interpretations of italian subjects. As art
critic for the Melbourne Herald, a foremost sponsor of art, McC
held perhaps the most influential critical positio in Australia
in the sixties and seventies.