Rosie McLean is a process-led artist based between Oxford and London who works with sculpture, costume and assemblage for installation, deconstructed lens-based media and image making. 

She engages closely with materials as a way to think about bodies, affective textures, and their relationship to context and environment. In her current studio practice she often uses repurposed materials and DIY techniques, riffing off antagonisms between choice and chance. This tactile, improvisatory process integrates various methods - weaving, burning, growing, tearing, beading, smashing, carving etc - into a dynamic spectrum of intensities. Repurposed beads feature frequently, an echo of a (now closed) small couture clothing venture in which she specialised in freeform glass beadwork. Since 2022 she has been combining this with flameworked glass and fire ritual, developing an experimental glass casting technique and making exuberant, spectral sculptures for visual and spatial interferences in installation and image creation. 

 
She welcomes collaboration, and has worked with practitioners across disciplines such as photography, sound, performance, film, ritual and permaculture.

Her work has been supported nationally and internationally, including Scottish Sculpture Workshop (Aberdeen), Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin), The Royal Academy (London), Red Gallery (London), Glastonbury Festival (Somerset), Ovada (Oxford), and Fusion Arts Oxford (Oxford).