Dr. Tori McLean MA RCA, MSDC is a contemporary British artist and printmaker whose interdisciplinary practice moves between printmaking, painting, sculpture and installation. Rooted in the language and materiality of play, her work uses processes of making, repetition, accumulation and transformation to interrogate how value is perceived, assigned and negotiated within society.

Her current practice examines womanhood and the value of women, questioning how gender, labour, identity and social expectation shape the ways women are seen, understood and categorised. She is particularly interested in how social, cultural, economic and linguistic structures construct ideas of worth, questioning who has the authority to define value, whose perspectives are privileged, and whose experiences are overlooked, diminished or marginalised.

Increasingly, McLean's work considers how different perspectives can produce radically different understandings of the same person, object or experience. Rather than proposing a single definition of value, her works create spaces in which competing viewpoints can coexist, overlap or remain unresolved, inviting the viewer to question their own position within the structures being examined.

Her work brings traditional printmaking and craft processes into dialogue with contemporary technologies. This hybrid approach reflects her interest in the tension between the handmade and the technologically produced, the personal and the systemic, the perfect versus the imperfect, and the playful versus the serious.

BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Tori McLean studied Fashion & Textiles BA at Winchester School of Art and a Print MA at the Royal College of Art. Her PhD in ‘Analysing Competitive Markets Through Consumer Choice’ led to her current interest in value, systems and how worth is constructed and assigned. She is an elected member of the Society of Designer Craftsmen. Her works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are held in the public collections of the Royal College of Art, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Hampshire Cultural Trust and in private collections in Europe, the USA and Australia.