Rachy McEwan is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in London. She graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art in 2020, winning the RSA New Contemporaries Award. Recently, she earned a Distinction in her Master's in Material Futures at UAL: Central Saint Martins and was shortlisted for the Maison/0 LVMH Maison Award.
Rachy challenges traditional approaches to human perception, infusing her work with humour and absurdity. She explores how technology and art-making can be tools for rethinking our relationships with the land and the more-than-human world, intertwining environmental concerns with the political economy. Her research and techno-sensual artistic exploration open new discourses in cognition and machine learning, introducing concepts such as the sensorial ecology of intelligence, the machine microbiome, machine ecosystems, and biological machines.
Maintaining a practice focused on co-subjectivity, Rachy’s projects involve collaborations with engineers, arborists, scientists, and perfumers, as well as bacteria, fungi, and robots.
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Work
2023-24, Based Upon, South London
2022-23 Studio Technician, Print Club London, East London
2021-22  Film Screening Coordinator, The Glasgow School of Art
2021-22   Workshop Coordinator, Art-Making for Earthly Survival, The Glasgow School of Art
2021-22   Workshop Facilitator, Commingling, Production and Reproduction, The Glasgow School of Art
2021-Present   Curator and Events Manager at Box Hub Vennel, Glasgow
2020-22  Social media Coordinator Sustainability in Action Group, The Glasgow School of Art
2017-Present   Sales Assistant, End Clothing, Glasgow 

Education

2022-24 MA Material Futures (Distinction), Central Saint Martins, UAL
2018-20 BA (Hons) Fine Art: Painting and Printmaking (First Class), The Glasgow School of Art
2017-18   Art Foundation Portfolio Course, Tramway Visual Arts Studio, Glasgow 
2016-17   HNC ART AND DESIGN

Residencies / Placements 

2020   Athens Residency, funded by The Glasgow School of Art
2020   Modual, University of Arts London Collaborative Digital Workshop 
2020   Host of Eco-Virtual Residency 
2020   Cel Del Nord, Virtual Residency 
2016   Grampus Heritage Placement, Iceland 

Press & Achievements 

2024  LVMH Maison/0 Award 
2022   20:20 Event, Royal Scottish Academy 
2020   One Year after Graduation Talk, The Glasgow School of Art 
2014   Lilly 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, North Street, Glasgow
2022   Creating Our Planet, Glasgow Goes Green Festival, The Alchemy Experiment
2022   Creating Our Planet, Glasgow Goes Green Festival Film Screening, The University of Glasgow
2022   No Arrow of Time, Box Hub, North Street, Glasgow

Solo Exhibitions

2020  The Art of Living on a Damaged Planet, 16 Nicolson Street, Glasgow
2019   See Through, Project Space, The Victoria Cafe, Glasgow  
2014   Advanced Higher Art Exhibition, Lillie Art Gallery, Glasgow

Group Exhibitions 

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, Disobediant Materials, Central Saint Martins, London
2023 Spontaneous Fermentation, Set Kensington, London
2023   Model Machines x Deep Mind, Lethaby Gallery, Kings 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, Axiom, Glasgow
2021    COP26 Exhibtion, The Salt Space, Glasgow
2021    Graduates x Open House, NCP George Street, Glasgow 
2021    Alternative Degree Show, The Pipe Factory, Glasgow 
2018    SOUP, Group Exhibition, The Glue Factory, Glasgow
2018    GSA Year 3 Exhibition, The Arches, Lauriston, Glasgow 
2018    Test Bed, Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
2018    More Is Less, Laurieston Arches, Glasgow
2018    Re-visit, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow 
2016    Raspberry Ripple, Southside, Glasgow
2017    Portfolio Exhibition, Tramway Visual Arts Studio, Glasgow
2016    Portfolio Exhibition, Tramway Visual Arts Studio, Glasgow
2015    Portfolio Exhibition, The 13th Note, Glasgow
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