Rosie McLean is a process-led artist based in London who works with sculpture, costume and assemblage to create installations and lens based media. At the moment she is thinking about transformation, risk, trust, attention and value. Her method is improvisatory, riffing with the material changes which arise from a spectrum of creative and destructive processes (beading, burning, embroidering, melting, drawing, cutting, darning, smashing, gathering, image cropping etc). Often she puts found objects and bodies into conversation with repurposed beads, glass and other translucencies to explore dynamics of revelation and obfuscation, violence and seduction. 

In 2022 she began combining flameworked glass and fire ritual to develop experimental casting techniques. She welcomes collaboration, and has worked with practitioners across disciplines such as photography, sound, performance, film and permaculture.

Past work has been supported by institutions including Scottish Sculpture Workshop (Aberdeen), Kunstraum Kreuzberg (Berlin), The Royal Academy (London), Red Gallery (London), Glastonbury Festival (Somerset), Modern Art Oxford, Ovada (Oxford), Fusion Arts Oxford (Oxford), Arts Council England and A-N. 

She began the MA in Sculpture at the Slade in October 2025.