RACHY MCEWAN
Rachy McEwan is an interdisciplinary artist, design researcher, and technologist based in London. Her practice combines art, interactive systems, and emerging technologies to investigate urban ecologies, digital infrastructures, and more-than-human interaction. Working across painting, programming, 3D imaging, speculative design, and installation, she develops participatory experiences that examine how technological systems shape perception, behaviour, and environmental relationships.

Rachy graduated with a First Class BA in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art, where she received the RSA New Contemporaries Award, and later completed an MA in Material Futures at Central Saint Martins with Distinction, where she was shortlisted for the Maison/0 LVMH Maison Award. Her work has been exhibited internationally across London, Paris, Milan, Amsterdam, Estonia, and Glasgow, including presentations at Saatchi Galleryand BASE Milano.

Alongside her artistic practice, Rachy works as a design researcher with the Design Museum, developing projects exploring environmental sensing, participatory technologies, and ecological futures. She frequently collaborates across disciplines including engineering, arboriculture, science, and creative technology, combining technical experimentation with critical and conceptual inquiry.



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I’M A GHOST NOW, LOOK HOW YOU HOLD ME
2025

2025MONEY TREES: I’M A GHOST NOW, LOOK HOW YOU HOLD ME

Money Trees: I’m a Ghost Now, Look How You Hold Me emerges from Money Trees—a platform connecting digital tree assets to real-world tree care. This new body of work pairs oil-on-canvas paintings with their digital counterparts, each derived from 3D scans of London trees that have been felled or forgotten. In this final iteration, the project reflects on how preservation can take shape in both pigment and pixels—how memory might linger between the material and the virtual.

The paintings are derived from the model’s UV map—a flattened, two-dimensional surface of the tree’s skin—translated from pixels into physical scale and rendered in oil on canvas. Once painted, this surface is re-scanned and re-mapped back onto the 3D model, creating a continuous loop between digital reconstruction and physical surface.


In partnership w/
London National Park City



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