Rosie
CV
Education:
2011-2014 Master of Fine Art: Distinction, Newcastle University, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2001-2004 BA Archaeology (Hons): First Class, University College London, London
2003-2004 Fine Art: First Class, The Slade School of Fine Art, London
Exhibitions:
Solo:
Hydriotaphia, Arusha Gallery, London, 2024
Axis Mundi, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, 2023
Selected Group:
2025
Memento Mori, Andelli Art, Somerset
The Real Surreal, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York
Reverb, Florence Trust, London
Sustainable Clay, Hatton Gallery, North East Museums, Newcastle Upon Tyne
2024
Buried, Ohsh Projects, London
Ud Rocashaas, Hweg Gallery, Cornwall
2023
Neo-Gothic, Ohsh Projects, London
Wood Fired, Clay College, Stoke-on-Trent
Primeval, Unit 1 Gallery, London
2022
Voices from an Animist Earth, Cavin Morris Gallery, New York
Spirit Within, BWG, Ben Oakley Gallery, London
Conjure, Arusha Gallery, Bruton
2021
Winter Exhibition, Thrown Contemporary, London/online
Telling the Bees, Gymnasium Gallery, Berwick Upon Tweed
2017
A Scientific Encounter: On Interobjectivity, University of Montpellier, France
2016
Crab Walk, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland
2015
Breakin’ Up is Hard to Do, KARST, Portsmouth
2014
sub specie aeternitatis, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne,
2013
Voices, Migrating Art Academies, Villefagnan, France
2012
ex nihlio nihil fit, Allenheads Contemporary Arts, Northumberland
Credo quia absurdum est/I believe it because it is absurd, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Mind Machine, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
The Horror in Clay, Connecting Principle, XL Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Axis Mundi, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle Upon Tyne
Collections:
Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead, 2025
Awards and Grants:
CPA Grant, 2024
DYCP, Arts Council England, 2024
Short-listed for the Aesthetica Art Prize 2015
Selected as Axisweb’s MAstar 2014
Residencies:
arts@CERN, European Organisation for Nuclear Research, Switzerland, 2014
Voices, Migrating Art Academies, Villefagnan, France, 2013
95%, ACA and Migrating Arts Academies, Allenheads, Northumberland, 2013
Creating a Context, Front of House, Bologna, Italy, 2012
Artist Talks and Teaching:
Social Clay, Grizedale Arts, 2024
Sculpture Workshop, Turning Earth, London, 2023
Castles Made of Sand Symposium, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, 2014
Where Are We Now? Symposium Northern Film and Media and The Newbridge Project, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2014
Extraordinary Renditions Symposium, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle Upon Tyne, 2013
Undergraduate Sculpture Tutor, Newcastle University, 2012
Internships and apprenticeships
Svend Bayer, Oxford and Northumberland, 2024
Jim Malone, Lessonhall, Cumbria, 2016 - 2020
Liliane Lijn’s Studio, 95 Vale Road, London, 2013
Press/Publications
Sustainble Clay - Interview with artist Rosie McLachlan, filmed interview, North East Museums, 2025
Can pottery be an eco-friendly artform?, article by David Whetstone for Cultured. North East, 2025
Living by an Invisible Sun, article by Stephen Ellcock, 2024
On Hydriotaphia, article by Stephen Jenkinson, 2024
An Architectural Duo’s Treasured Objects, featuring Rosie McLachlan’s ceramics, New York Times T Magazine, ‘The T List’, 2023
Ceramics Now article about Conjure at Arusha Gallery in Bruton by Marina Dacci, 2022
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