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.






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RACHY MCEWAN

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Rachy McEwan is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher based in London. In 2020, she graduated with a First Class Bachelor of Fine Art in Painting and Printmaking from The Glasgow School of Art, 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, perfumers, bacteria, fungi, and robots.


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