Rachel Maclean

Rachel Maclean (born 1987) is a multi-media artist. Over the last 10 years Rachel Maclean has shown widely in the UK and internationally, in galleries, museums, film festivals and on television. Maclean produces elaborate films and digital prints using extravagant costume, over-the-top make-up, green screen vfx and electronic soundtracks.

Not to be confused with Rachel Maclean (politician).

Maclean’s artwork is both seductive and disturbing, it sucks the viewer into oversaturated candy coloured worlds and repels them with unsettling themes and narratives. Until recently she has been the only actor in her films and prints, exploring issues of identity, class, nationalism and gender, whilst referencing narrative structures from pop culture and fairy-tales.[1]

Using film and photography, she creates outlandish characters and fantasy worlds which she uses to delve into politics, society and identity.[2]

Wearing colourful costumes and make-up, Maclean takes on every role in her films herself. She uses computer technology to generate her locations, and borrows audio from television and cinema to construct narratives with a comedic touch.[3]

Maclean was born in Edinburgh.[4] She lives and works in Glasgow.[5]

Career

Maclean has had solo exhibitions at the Zabludowicz Collection, London (2014), Edinburgh Printmakers (2013), Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (2013), Trade Gallery, Nottingham (2013) and Generator Projects, Dundee (2012).[6][7] In 2013, Maclean received the Margaret Tait Award for her contribution to Glasgow Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award.[8] Her work has also been shown at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St Petersburg, Russia, Kunstarkaden, Munich, Germany, Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh.[9] She has a BA in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art.[10]

Maclean exhibited in British Art Show 8 with Feed Me.[11][12]

Maclean was selected to represent Scotland in Venice at the 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 2017.[13][14] This solo presentation of new work centred on a major new film commission.[15] The presentation is commissioned and curated by Alchemy Film & Arts[16] in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh.[14]

References
  1. Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Rachel Maclean. https://www.kunsthalle-kiel.de/en/kunsthalle https://www.kunsthalle-kiel.de/en/ausstellungen/Rachel-Maclean.html. Retrieved 15 May 2020. Missing or empty |title= (help); External link in |publisher= (help)
  2. Ruiz, Cristina (6 October 2018). "Rachel Maclean: satire for the age of Snapchat". Financial Times.
  3. Kelly, Brian P. (15 September 2018). "'I Was Raised on the Internet' Review: Binary Reactions to the Digital World". WSJ. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  4. Ferguson, Brian (4 October 2018). "Interview: Artist Rachel Maclean on her sinister new film exploring how much freedom 21st century women really have". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  5. "GENERATION: Rachel Maclean". BBC Arts. 18 July 2014. Retrieved 5 March 2016.
  6. "Rachel Maclean at the Benaki Museum | British Council Greece". www.britishcouncil.gr. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  7. Palumbo, Jacqui (2019-06-24). "Six Women Artists Furthering Cindy Sherman's Pioneering Vision". Artsy. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  8. "Rachel Maclean wins Margaret Tait Award - a-n The Artists Information Company". 17 May 2013. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  9. Theatre, Glasgow Film (2019-12-10). "Previous Winners - Margaret Tait Award". Glasgow Film Theatre. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  10. "Five minutes on Rachel MacLean". TATE. 5 December 2016.
  11. "British Art Show 8".
  12. Judah, Hettie (9 October 2015). "The British Art show: Testing the limits of exhibition boundaries". The Independent.
  13. Miller, Phil (11 May 2016). "Meet Rachel Maclean: The candy-coloured nightmare world of artist to represent Scotland at Venice 2017".
  14. Greenberger, Alex (10 May 2016). "Rachel Maclean will represent Scotland at the 2017 Venice Biennale". Art News.
  15. "Rachel Maclean / Spite Your Face | Talbot Rice Gallery". www.trg.ed.ac.uk. Retrieved 2019-12-10.
  16. "RACHEL MACLEAN SELECTED TO REPRESENT SCOTLAND AT VENICE BIENNALE 2017". 9 May 2016.
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