Freda McLean (2000) will have her first solo exhibition at Galerie van Gelder in November 2024. Her handmade shoes and a film loop of a running horse doing exercises formed the starting point. She combined a straw sculpture, a painted floor, a pair of homemade shoes and folded sheets of paper that were taped to the wall. All this under the title "Soles".
Freda McLean (2000) studied at London’s Capel Manor / Diploma in Saddlery in 2020-2022 and obtained also the Diploma Cordwaining (shoe making) there in 2023 – 2024. She has exhibited work at Lee Valley, Hackney UK (2010), Epping Forest, Essex UK (2014), Donckers, Antwerp BE (2018), Poggibonsi, Sienna IT (2019), Townend Shropshire UK (2020), Klimke, Münster GE (2023), Hamm, North Rhine-Westphalia GE (2023).