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Rachel Maclean is a multi-media artist born in 1987 in Edinburgh. Using film and photography, she creates outlandish characters and fantasy worlds which she uses to delve into politics, society and identity.

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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.

Maclean lives and works in Glasgow.

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Career

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Rachel 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). In 2013, Maclean received the Margaret Tait Award for her contribution to Glasgow Film Festival and was shortlisted for the Film London Jarman Award. Her work has also been shown at the State Museum of Urban Sculpture, St Petersburg, Russia, Tramway, Glasgow, Kunstarkaden, Munich, Germany, Talbot Rice Gallery, Edinburgh, the Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh and as part of Glasgow International Festival. She has a BA in Drawing and Painting from Edinburgh College of Art.

Maclean exhibited in British Art Show 8 with Feed Me

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Maclean was selected to represent Scotland in Venice at the 57th International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale, 13 May-26 Nov, 2017

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This solo presentation of new work centred on a major new film commission. The presentation is commissioned and curated by Alchemy Film & Arts in partnership with Talbot Rice Gallery and the University of Edinburgh.

External Links

http://www.rachelmaclean.com

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/the-british-art-show-testing-the-limits-of-exhibition-boundaries-a6688281.html

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14481256.Meet_Rachel_Maclean__The_candy_coloured_nightmare_world_of_artist_to_represent_Scotland_at_Venice_2017/

http://www.alchemyfilmfestival.org.uk/2016/rachelmacleanvenice/

http://www.artnews.com/2016/05/10/rachel-maclean-will-represent-scotland-at-the-2017-venice-biennale/

http://www.artlyst.com/articles/rachel-maclean-to-represent-scotland-at-57-venice-biennale

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Rachel Maclean Wikipedia