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RACHY MCEWAN
Rachy McEwan is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in London. She graduated with a First Class BA in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art (2020), receiving the RSA New Contemporaries Award, and earned a Distinction in her MA in Material Futures at UAL: Central Saint Martins (2024), where she was shortlisted for the Maison/0 LVMH Maison Award.
Her practice combines art and technology to create systems and experiences exploring urban ecology, interactivity, and the ways audiences engage with both digital and physical environments. Working across painting, programming, 3D imaging, and interactive design, she develops experimental platforms that encourage reflection on human-environment relationships, technological processes, and participatory engagement.
Rachy challenges traditional approaches to perception, bridging natural, artificial, and non-human worlds. Collaborating across disciplines, including engineering, arboriculture, and science, her work blends technical experimentation with conceptual inquiry, offering new ways to understand and interact with contemporary ecological, technological, and urban systems.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 — I’m a Ghost Now, Look How You Hold Me, East London
2025 — Money Trees, Incubator, Paris, France
2020 — The Art of Living on a Damaged Planet, 16 Nicolson Street, Glasgow
2019 — See Through, Project Space, Victoria Cafe, Glasgow
2014 — Advanced Higher Art Exhibition, Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025 — Money Trees, This is Nature+, OpenAir
2025 — Money Trees, Tallinn Design Festival DISAINIÖÖ, Estonia (upcoming)
2025 — A Place Has a Place Has a Place, Willie, Amsterdam
2025 — Dark but Dendrophila, RestlessEgg, London
2024 — Money Trees, Save Me, Augmented Reality, Saatchi Gallery, London
2024 — Money Trees, MA Material Futures Degree Show, Central Saint Martins, London
2024 — Money Trees, BASE Milano, Milan
2023 — Don’t Fuck with Trees, Disobedient Materials, Central Saint Martins, London
2023 — Spontaneous Fermentation, SET Kensington, London
2023 — Model Machines x DeepMind, Lethaby Gallery, King’s Cross, London
2022 — Situated Knowledges, IOTA Studio Gallery, Glasgow
2022 — RSA New Contemporaries 2022, The Mound, Edinburgh
2022 — Environmental Arts, CCA, Glasgow
2021 — When We Have Never Been Human, What Is to Be Done?, Box Hub x Axiom, Glasgow
2021 — COP26 Exhibition, The Salt Space, Glasgow
2021 — Graduates x Open House, NCP George Street, Glasgow
2021 — Alternative Degree Show, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow
2018 — SOUP, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2018 — GSA Year 3 Exhibition, Lauriston Arches, Glasgow
2018 — Test Bed, Glasgow School of Art
2018 — More Is Less, Lauriston Arches, Glasgow
2018 — Re-visit, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow
2017 — Portfolio Exhibition, Tramway Visual Arts Studio, Glasgow
2016 — Raspberry Ripple, Southside, Glasgow
2016 — Portfolio Exhibition, Tramway Visual Arts Studio, Glasgow
2015 — Portfolio Exhibition, The 13th Note, Glasgow
EDUCATION
2022–2024 — MA Material Futures (Distinction), Central Saint Martins, UAL
2018–2020 — BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting & Printmaking (First Class), The Glasgow School of Art
2017–2018 — Art Foundation Portfolio Course, Tramway Visual Arts Studio, Glasgow
2016–2017 — HNC Art & Design
WORK
2024–2025 — Workshop Facilitator, Fermynwoods Contemporary Art
2023–2024 — Based Upon, South London
2022–2023 — Studio Technician, Print Club London, East London
2021–2023 — Curator & Events Manager, Box Hub Vennel, Glasgow
2021–2022 — Film Screening Coordinator, The Glasgow School of Art
2021–2022 — Workshop Coordinator, Art-Making for Earthly Survival, The Glasgow School of Art
2021–2022 — Workshop Facilitator, Commingling, Production and Reproduction, The Glasgow School of Art
2020–2022 — Social Media Coordinator, Sustainability in Action Group, The Glasgow School of Art
RESIDENCYS + PLACEMENTS
2020 — Athens Residency, funded by The Glasgow School of Art
2020 — Modual, University of the Arts London Collaborative Digital Workshop
2020 — Host, Eco-Virtual Residency, Cel Del Nord
2016 — Grampus Heritage Placement, Iceland
TALKS + PANELS
2025 — The Makers Memo Podcast, Digital Frontier
2025 — Æffective Technologies: Methods for Creative Platforms, RestlessEgg
2025 — Visual Artists Ireland Conference, Lead Panelist
AWARDS + REGOGNITION
2024 — LVMH Maison/0 Award
2022 — RSA New Contemporaries
2022 — 20:20 Event, Royal Scottish Academy
2020 — One Year After Graduation Talk, The Glasgow School of Art
2020 — Degree Show Press, Anne Barlow
2014 — Lillie Art Gallery Award, Glasgow
CURATED EXHIBITIONS + SCREENINGS
2022 — Close of Play: Art Making for Earthly Survival, Reid Gallery, Glasgow School of Art
2022 — Creating Our Planet, Glasgow Goes Green Festival, Box Hub, Glasgow
2022 — Creating Our Planet, Glasgow Goes Green Festival, The Alchemy Experiment
2022 — Creating Our Planet Film Screening, University of Glasgow
2022 — No Arrow of Time, Box Hub, Glasgow