McLean Edwards attended the Canberra School of Art.
[citation needed] He was a Doug Moran National Portrait Prize finalist in 2014.
[3] He is the subject of Tim Storrier's 2017 Doug Moran National Portrait Prize winning The Lunar Savant.
Also in 2019, Edwards won the Kings School Art Prize.
[3] Edwards' work is collected widely by institutions across Australia, including the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane; Orange Regional Gallery, Orange, New South Wales; and the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.