Private View: Eleanor + Melissa Mclean

Please join us on the Mon 28th Sept to celebrate! Info on our workshop will be posted v soon!

‘Temporary Dwelling’ is a sculptural and sound installation by artists and sisters Eleanor McLean and Melissa McLean. The show explores the public and private spaces that anchor our sense of comfort and familiarity, and the ways these are shaped by culture, upbringing, memory and ritual.

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[ Eleanor McLean b.1997 is a British Artist based in London at ACME studios. She graduated with an MA in Sculpture from The Royal College of Art in 2022. Eleanor has exhibited across the UK including The Saatchi Gallery and Staffordshire Street Studios, and her work has been publicised in magazines such as Plaster and FAD. She has self-curated programmes such as: Sandcastles by the Sea at Filet Space during Frieze 2024 and ‘Anemoia’ in collaboration with Connaught Village and ACME during Frieze week 2025.

Her practice operates within the realms of sculpture and installation, using found objects, writing and craft. It is often poetic through an act of remembering, drawing on personal nostalgia and collective memories through British culture within objects, interiors and traditions.

Melissa McLean b.2001 is a sound artist and sound designer based in London. Currently studying her MA in Sound Arts at LCC, she has exhibited in galleries such as Copeland Park in Peckham and has worked on films as a sound designer and foley artist for brands such as Vans Europe.

Her sound art practice involves found object and speaker installations using methods of granular synthesis, coding in Max MSP and field recordings. With a background in classical singing she has a deep interest in using the female voice as a sound source to create intricate and haunting worlds of sound that explore themes of cyberfeminism, deep listening and memory. ]