Rosie McLean is a process-led artist based between Oxford and London who makes sculptures, costume, installation and textile works.

She beads, weaves, burns, melts, smashes, embroiders, tears, plays, collages, doodles, arranges, photographs, grows, gathers, collaborates and reads stories in clouds, wax, dreams, water and many other things. 

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She sustainably sources and repurposes beads, fibres, glass, natural materials and found objects and often uses DIY processes. The pure pleasure of chance encounters with materials is at the heart of her practice, as is the intention to destabilise hierarchies of amateurism and mastery, waste and value.

She makes art as a means of psychic survival, a method for coping by carving out a space to hang out and play amongst (un)conscious and libidinal forces. 

Art invites us to become more capable of reconceptualising and relating with the in/visible, in/attention, wholeness // fragmentation, growth // death, desire // fear, escapism // preoccupation, specificity // abstraction, flesh // affect ; a devotional act with personal, political and spiritual implications.

This work is informed by her ongoing interests in post capitalist, decolonial approaches to wellbeing, magic, liberatory education and collectivism. 

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.