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Tori McLean is a UK based, multidisciplinary artist working across print, sculpture and installation. She is a recent graduate of the MA Print programme at the Royal College of Art.
Originally trained in Business and IT, with a PhD in Applied Economics, McLean began her career as a consultant before transitioning to the arts. Studies in Garden Design fostered a love of colour, composition and materiality, while a degree in Fashion and Textile Design introduced her to repeat structures and hand-printed patterns. These diverse disciplines continue to shape her artistic practice.
McLean’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally and is held in the collections of the V&A, Royal College of Art, Hampshire Cultural Trust, and private collectors in Europe, USA and Australia. She is an elected member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen and a member of the Printmaker’s Council. She is a recipient of the Travers Smith CSR Art Programme 2025/6 and was named in Colour Hive's Talent Focus 2025 as one of the 15 best names to watch. Her accolades include the Designext International Grand Prize (New York), the Elle Decoration/ B&Q Textile Design Award, and the SDC Distinction Award. Special commissions include projects for the RHS Chelsea Flower Show and Hampshire Cultural Trust.
McLean’s artist practice explores where value and worth lie, whether applied to objects, processes or people. She is particularly interested in how notions of value and worth are attached to women, and how these perceptions shape female identity.
He most recent work investigates how women are perceived, treated, measured and valued through a series of working automatons based on the Triple Goddess archetypes of Maiden, Mother and Crone. Previous works have addressed physical and psychological harm, the use of misogynistic language and everyday sexism, impossible beauty standards, and the quieter, corrosive harm born from feelings of inadequacy and internalised devaluation. In these explorations, value emerges as something unstable - externally imposed yet deeply, often painfully, felt.
Grounded in feminist critique and lived, gendered experience, McLean’s practice is an act of quiet resistance. Rather than offering resolution, her works create spaces of disruption and reflection, urging viewers to confront how value is shaped, denied, and reclaimed. In their insistence on questioning, her works resist silence and assert a radical truth: women’s worth is not conditional, but inherent, enduring, and undeniable.
Theme: Where Does Value Lie?
Awards & Recognitions
2025 Printmaking Today Prize.
2025 Travers Smith CSR Art Programme Recipient 2025/6.
2025 Printmakers Council RCA MA Printmaking Award – Commendation.
2016 Hillarys Design Award – Finalist.
2015 Society of Designer Craftsmen Distinction Award.
2015 Society of Designer Craftsmen New Licentiate Award.
2014 Designext International Grand Prize, New York.
2013 Purvaai Textile Design Award.
2013 Textile Award, B&Q/Elle Decoration British Talent Search.
Selected Press
Printmaking Today Editorial Feature (Awaiting Publication).
Colour Hive (2025), 15 of the Best Names to Watch, In Colour - Industry Focus: New Talent, August 2025, Colourhive.com
Elle Decoration, (2013), British Talent Search 2013, Sept Issue, Hearst Corporation.
Publications
VAA Art500 (Shortlisted - results pending), (2025), S-A. O'Neil & L. O'Hare, Visual Artists Association.
100 Emerging Artworks: 2025 Women's Edition (2025), C. Arora et el, Arts to Hearts (Awaiting Publication).
ArtEvol (2025), London Art Collective at Saatchi Gallery. (Awaiting Publication).
Selected Collections
Royal College of Art Special Collections.
Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
Hampshire Cultural Trust, Winchester.
Selected Commissions & Collaborations
RHS Chelsea Flower Show & City of London Corporation.
Hampshire Cultural Trust.
British Museum.
Royal Collection Shops.
David Watson.
Portfolio
Latest works by Tori McLean
Contact Info
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Emailtori@torimclean.co.uk
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Phone+447545628567
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Websitehttps://www.torimclean.co.uk/
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