Rosie McLean (born Oxford UK) makes sculpture, costume, installations and lens based media from an interest in how we relate to the interior and exterior worlds. She thinks a lot about what it means to be in/visible, un/contained, im/permeable, using a spectrum of methods - automatic drawing and writing, weaving, burning, collecting, melting and so on - to tune into dialogues between material and psychic phenomena.

An interest in the politics of waste leads her to work with discarded and found materials, frequently with repurposed glass beads. As a material beads invoke histories of exchange, belief and adornment; she works with them to visualise a world of entanglement, mythic emergence and transmutation.

Underpinning her studio practice is an engagement with healing and ritual, creative pedagogy, psychoanalysis, emancipatory politics and the anticipation of imperialist capitalism's destruction from within.

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), Bundeskunsthalle (Bonn), 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 MFA in Sculpture at the Slade in October 2025.