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Wendy McLean

Department Director of Academic Tutoring, 91µ¼º½ School of Art
Programme Director of BA Fine Art Degree
Programme Director of BA Art / BA Fine Art with Integrated Foundation

Areas of interest

Wendy McLean has research interests in:

  • Painting
  • Failure & risk
  • Repetition as creative device
  • Knowing and unknowing in painting

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Postgraduate supervision

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Background

Wendy McLean is an artist primarily working with painting, drawing and weaving. Recent exhibitions include: Group Show No. 2 at Big Happy Gallery, Santa Fe, USA; At Last it Came Into Focus, Warbling Creative, London; Side Step, Set Ealing; Flat, APT Gallery, London; The Continuous Line, Oceans Apart, Manchester; A Hand Stuffed Mattress, Terrace Gallery, London; a two-person exhibition with Sandra Lane and Square Art Projects, at Swab, Barcelona; and The Value of Liveliness, White Crypt, London. She has work in the David Roberts, Simmons and Simmons and various private collections. She has contributed writing and images of practice to a number of limited-edition artists' publications. She received an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, in 2011.

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Selected Group Exhibitions;

2025,ÌýGroup Show No. 2, Big Happy Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA
2024,ÌýAt Last It Came Into Focus, Warbling Collective, London;ÌýThe Owen Rowley Prize Winners Retrospective (1988-2019), Mall Galleries, London
2023,ÌýSide Step, Set Ealing, London
2022,ÌýFlat, Apt Gallery, Deptford, London
2020,ÌýThe Continuous Image, Oceans Apart, Salford
2019,ÌýA Hand Stuffed Mattress,ÌýTerrace Gallery, London;ÌýA Riotous Assembly, Déda, Derby
2018,ÌýWinter fundraiser,ÌýGlass Cloud Gallery, London;ÌýSquare Art Projects at SWAB Art Fair, Artist run spaces, Barcelona;ÌýOut of Bounds – beyond the walls of the art school, Rising Sun Arts Centre, 91µ¼º½;ÌýThe Value of Liveliness, White Crypt, London
2017,ÌýThe Painting That Licked Itself, Gallery 64a, Whitstable, Kent;ÌýPaper Cuts, Kristian Day at Tripp Gallery, London;ÌýSpoil Heap, Wiltshire Museum Devizes;ÌýFootfall, Walthamstow Village Window Gallery, London
2016,ÌýPipe Dream, The Lantern Gallery, University of Worcester, Worcestershire
2015,ÌýHoy, Hoy, Hoy, Film Shop, London;ÌýSo Many Constellations, Mayor’s Parlour Gallery, London;ÌýPainting About Painting, Simmonds & Simmonds, London;ÌýSummer Mix, Turps Gallery, London
2014,ÌýRest, Lion + Lamb Gallery, Hoxton, London (curator);ÌýHoliday, The Glass Door, Politi Arts Building, London;ÌýPainted Horizons, Maggs Bros, London
2013,ÌýPainting Show and Performances, Winter Projects, London;ÌýMise-en-Scene, Curated by Cullinan Richards, Bermondsey Project, London;ÌýOther Objects, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London
2012,ÌýMoments Around Us, The Gallery, Idea Store Whitechapel, London;ÌýBow Arts Open, Bermondsey Project, London
2011,ÌýObject Not Found, Post Gallery, London;ÌýNothing Fixed, curated by Shaun McDowell, Marcelle Joseph Projects at The Gallery in Redchurch Street, London;ÌýWhat, 4 Gray's Inn Road, London;ÌýRCA Show 2011, Battersea, London;ÌýDarkness Visible, 15 Howie Street, London
2010,ÌýDesire Is A Gold Carrot, The Albion, London;ÌýZ-Time, Era Foundation, Moscow, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Russia

Awards and honours

2011,ÌýNeville Burston Award, Royal College of Art
2008,ÌýEde & Ravenscroft Prize, London Metropolitan University
2008,ÌýOwen Rowley Prize, London Metropolitan University
2007-8, Jump Start Bursary, funded by the Royal Female School of Art Foundation, London Metropolitan University

Websites/blogs

Selected publications

2024,ÌýThe Owen Rowley Prizewinners Retrospective 1988 – 2019, pp.64 – 67
2019,ÌýA Riotous Assembly; Some Contemporary British Painting, pp.10-11
2017,ÌýX, London/Zagreb Exchange Project, Collaboration with Tomislav Mostecak, Menswear Designer
2015,ÌýRecent Acquisitions, Simmons and Simmons
2014,ÌýRest, Pamphlet for Poetry/reading event, accompanying exhibition Rest
2013,ÌýAll attention: the outside, Mise-en-Scene, Bermondsey Project, pp. 45
2011,ÌýRoyal College of Art Painting

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