Tag: Rachel Maclean

Scottish Women Artists: 250 Years of Challenging Perception

With themes including Scottish identities, artistic communities and interior lives, this exhibition focuses on women across generations who have changed the face of the country’s art
Jenkin van Zyl – interview: ‘The world has ended many times over’

The artist and film-maker guides us through his fantastical world of dancing rats, pneumatic tubes, dance marathons and inflatable hellmouths
We Are the People. Who Are You?

As the UK wrestles with Brexit, this show, with the feel of a mini-institutional survey on artists responding to the technological ravaging of liberal democracy, could not have come at a better time
Stalking the Image: Margaret Tait and her Legacy

In the centenary year of Tait’s birth, this exhibition of short films celebrates her pioneering legacy alongside the work of younger artists whom she influenced
Rachel Maclean: Spite Your Face – Venice Biennale 2017

Rachel Maclean is representing Scotland at the Venice Biennale with her new film, a dark fairytale titled Spite Your Face. She talked to us before the biennale about the film, nationalism, fairytales, and how narratives can be so powerful that…
Rachel Maclean: British Art Show 8

Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades.…
British Art Show 8

Now in its eighth year, the British Art Show is the largest and most ambitious touring exhibition of contemporary art in the UK, bringing together emerging artists worth watching with those who have been working for three or four decades
Rachel Maclean: ‘I’m taking and contributing to the weird recycled ecosystem of the internet’

The artist talks about taking her inspiration from YouTube and LolCats to Britney Spears and Scottishness to explore gender, class and nationality, and explains how she transforms herself to play every role and model in her videos
New Contemporaries 2009

10 November–20 December 2009 A Foundation, Rochelle School, London