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Raisa Mclean is a visual artist and curator based in Melbourne. She is also a current board member at TCB Art Inc (since 2023.)
Education:
VCA Bachelor of Fine Arts Honours (2022)
Master of Art Curatorship, University of Melbourne, Graduating 2026
Exhibitions:
TCB, The World Spins, group exhibition co-curated with Juliette Berkely, Tom Denize, Vivienne Tetaz, Felix Oliver and Joey Dillon, upcoming December 2025
Gallery 138, Bell Motel, window exhibition exhibition, August 2025
RM Gallery (Auckland), Heatwave, solo exhibition, May 2025
Shopfront 740, Trustfall, group exhibition, April 2025
Oddany Gallery, Compline, group exhibition, March 2025
Trocadero Projects, Lure of Memory, group exhibition, November 2024
TCB, Portiére, September 2024
Gallery 138, A place in the sun, July 2024
Seventh Gallery, pArtways, group exhibition, February 2024
TCB, Staff Discount, group exhibition, September 2023
ASBESTOS, Menagerie, fundraiser, 2023
AN/A.R.I, Love songs and lullabies, solo exhibition, May 2023
VCA Graduate Exhibition, November 2022
Temporalities Gallery, SUMMERHEAD, solo exhibition, October 2022
George Paton Gallery, Embrace Me You Child, group exhibition, October 2022
Dark Horse Experiment, 8.0 Group Show, June 2022
George Paton Gallery, Feminisms 1975-2022, group exhibition, May 2022
Second Space Projects, a playroom of one’s own, group exhibition, March 2022
VCA 2021 Graduate Exhibition, December 2021
Yarra Sculpture Gallery, Winter residency exhibition, November 2021
Black Cat Gallery, Dancing Backwards on Velour Velvet, solo exhibition, May 2021
VCA Artspace, I found my limbs in the mud and plugged them in one by one, group exhibition, May 2021
Centre for Contemporary Photography, 2020 Ilford CCP Salon, August 2020
Black Cat Gallery, Enter the Ruined Fairyland, solo exhibition, July 2020
VCA Artspace, Backbencher, group exhibition, March 2020
VCA Artspace, Intersect, group exhibition, 2019
Brunswick Street Gallery, Held in the Hand, group exhibition, 2018
Brunswick Street Gallery, Small Works, group exhibition, 2017
North Fitzroy Library, Capture Yarra Photography Award (winner), 2015
Curation:
138 Gallery, A place in the sun, Ella Howells, Jonnine Standish, Lilith Angle, Lily McRae, Raisa Mclean, Dom Viggiani, Cecily B-F, Edie Duffy and Evelyn Pohl, July 2024
TCB Art Inc, Portiére, Stacey Collee, Peta Treble, Alexandra Gowing, Sophie Tanner, Felix Oliver, Ponie Curtis, Bonnie Thorn, Yolanda Scholz Vinall and Harriet Blomfield, September 2024
TCB Art Inc, The World Spins (curated alongside Juliette Berkeley), Tom Denize, Felix Oliver, Joey Dillon and Vivienne Tetaz, upcoming December 2025
Residencies:
Yarra Sculpture Gallery Winter Residency 2021
Gallery 17 Summer Residency 2021/22