Wendy McLean

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.

Selected Group Exhibitions;

2025, Group Show No. 2, Big Happy Gallery, Sante Fe, New Mexico, USA
2024, At Last It Came Into Focus, Warbling Collective, London; The Owen Rowley Prize Winners Retrospective (1988-2019), Mall Galleries, London
2023, Side Step, Set Ealing, London
2022, Flat, Apt Gallery, Deptford, London
2020, The Continuous Image, Oceans Apart, Salford
2019, A Hand Stuffed Mattress, Terrace Gallery, London; A Riotous Assembly, Déda, Derby
2018, Winter fundraiser, Glass Cloud Gallery, London; Square Art Projects at SWAB Art Fair, Artist run spaces, Barcelona; Out of Bounds – beyond the walls of the art school, Rising Sun Arts Centre, Reading; The Value of Liveliness, White Crypt, London
2017, The Painting That Licked Itself, Gallery 64a, Whitstable, Kent; Paper Cuts, Kristian Day at Tripp Gallery, London; Spoil Heap, Wiltshire Museum Devizes; Footfall, Walthamstow Village Window Gallery, London
2016, Pipe Dream, The Lantern Gallery, University of Worcester, Worcestershire
2015, Hoy, Hoy, Hoy, Film Shop, London; So Many Constellations, Mayor’s Parlour Gallery, London; Painting About Painting, Simmonds & Simmonds, London; Summer Mix, Turps Gallery, London
2014, Rest, Lion + Lamb Gallery, Hoxton, London (curator); Holiday, The Glass Door, Politi Arts Building, London; Painted Horizons, Maggs Bros, London
2013, Painting Show and Performances, Winter Projects, London; Mise-en-Scene, Curated by Cullinan Richards, Bermondsey Project, London; Other Objects, Lion and Lamb Gallery, London
2012, Moments Around Us, The Gallery, Idea Store Whitechapel, London; Bow Arts Open, Bermondsey Project, London
2011, Object Not Found, Post Gallery, London; Nothing Fixed, curated by Shaun McDowell, Marcelle Joseph Projects at The Gallery in Redchurch Street, London; What, 4 Gray's Inn Road, London; RCA Show 2011, Battersea, London; Darkness Visible, 15 Howie Street, London
2010, Desire Is A Gold Carrot, The Albion, London; Z-Time, Era Foundation, Moscow, Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Russia