Tori McLean

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Where Does Value Lie?

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Tori McLean is a UK based, multidisciplinary artist working across print, sculpture, mixed media and installation. She is a recent graduate of the MA Print programme at the Royal College of Art.

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McLean’s practice explores where value and worth lie, whether applied to objects, processes or people.  She is particularly interested in how notions of value and worth are attached to women, and how these perceptions shape female identity. 

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Her most recent kinetic works investigate how women are perceived, treated, measured and valued through a series of working automatons based on the Triple Goddess archetypes of Maiden, Mother and Crone.  Previous works have addressed physical and psychological harm, the use of misogynistic language and everyday sexism, impossible beauty standards, and the quieter, corrosive harm born from feelings of inadequacy and internalised devaluation. In these explorations, value emerges as something unstable - externally imposed yet deeply, often painfully, felt.

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Grounded in feminist critique and lived, gendered experience, McLean’s practice is an act of quiet resistance. Rather than offering resolution, her works create spaces of disruption and reflection, urging viewers to confront how value is shaped, denied, and reclaimed. In their insistence on questioning, her works resist silence and assert a radical truth: women’s worth is not conditional, but inherent, enduring, and undeniable.

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