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Rachel Maclean

Rachel Maclean

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.

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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Movies Made By Rachel Maclean (17)

Duck (2024)

Sean Connery's descent into hell after witnessing Marilyn Monroe's return from the dead... ...

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DUCK (installation) (2024)

An installation centred around Rachel Maclean's newest video work, DUCK, framed in a highly synthetic environment with walls of a particularly familiar green colour. ...

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upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop (2021)

Rachel Maclean's bright, emoji-feminist fairy tale-style touches a new darkness in her first completely animated short. ...

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I’m Terribly Sorry (2019)

I'm Terribly Sorry, a VR work by the artist, will be screened in the backroom and is the artist's first piece in this medium. Similarly set in a dystopian urban British landscape of manic tourism, I'm Terribly Sorry reflects the desire for constant documen ...

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Native Animals (2019)

A multi-character, 8-channel film sits in the centre of the exhibition. Each character, from a porcine union-jack doting politician to a phone-addicted white cat, stand in as an archetype in the UK's political landscape as it considers its exit from the Eu ...

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Dr Cute (2019)

Dr Cute is a video lecture from an off-brand Care Bear Professor of Sweet and Sinister Studies. A rational dissertation on the nature of cuteness is quickly unhinged by the intense emotional responses the subject elicits, begging the question: what happens ...

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Make Me Up (2018)

Siri wakes to find herself trapped inside a brutalist candy-coloured dreamhouse. Despite the cutesy decor, the place is far from benign, and she and her inmates are encouraged to compete for survival while being watched over by surveillance cameras, 24/7. ...

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Spite Your Face (2017)

Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean's dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of poverty ...

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It's What's Inside That Counts (2016)

Parodies social media, advertising, children's television programmes and fairy tales, subjects that appear frequently in Maclean's work. The film borrows techniques global corporations use to sell well-being, youth and happiness by bombarding us with image ...

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Again and Again and Again (2016)

A supersaturated satire with a look into the land of data-addicted monk-like figures and dance-crazed rabbits. ...

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Feed Me (2015)

Feed Me is a larger than life fairy tale, part TV talent show, part thriller, video game in which Maclean plays all the parts ...

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The Weepers (2014)

'The Weepers' is a 30-minute short film that playfully explores Scotland's relationship with the Gothic horror genre. Drawing on a variety of cultural reference points, including Scottish myth, haunted house movies and Doctor Johnson's trip to the Hebride ...

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Eyes To Me (2014)

Sophie goes on a killing spree in a candy-coloured world. ...

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Germs (2013)

In Germs, female stereotypes, pseudoscience and promised happiness clash with violent consequences. ...

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Over The Rainbow (2013)

Inspired by the Technicolor utopias of children's television, Over The Rainbow invites the viewer into a shape-shifting world inhabited by cuddly monsters, faceless clones and gruesome pop divas. Shot entirely using green-screen the film presents a synthet ...

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The Lion and the Unicorn (2012)

"The Lion and The Unicorn" is a short film inspired by the heraldic symbols found on the Royal Coat of Arms of The United Kingdom, the lion (representing England) and the unicorn (representing Scotland). The piece uses representations of both alliance and ...

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Hit Me Baby (2007)

With Britney Spears in the news again with her new memoir, we jump back in time to the days of her infamous head-shaving shenanigans. Hit Me Baby is the earliest of Maclean's work included in either programme, but it already shows an interest in dissecting ...

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Movies Starring Rachel Maclean (11)

Duck (2024)

Sean Connery's descent into hell after witnessing Marilyn Monroe's return from the dead... ...

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Kill Your TV: Jim Moir’s Weird World of Video Art (2019)

Jim Moir (aka Vic Reeves) explores Video Art, revealing how different generations 'hacked' the tools of television to pioneer new ways of creating art that can be beautiful, bewildering and wildly experimental. ...

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Make Me Up (2018)

Siri wakes to find herself trapped inside a brutalist candy-coloured dreamhouse. Despite the cutesy decor, the place is far from benign, and she and her inmates are encouraged to compete for survival while being watched over by surveillance cameras, 24/7. ...

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Billy Connolly: Portrait of a Lifetime (2017)

Celebrating Billy Connolly's 75th birthday and 50 years in the business, three Scottish artists - John Byrne, Jack Vettriano and Rachel MacLean - each create a new portrait of the Big Yin. As he sits with each artist, Billy talks about his remarkable life ...

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Spite Your Face (2017)

Simultaneously sumptuous and gorgeous, garish and grim, this is a re-working of Pinocchio for the neo-liberal era. Rachel Maclean's dark fairytale, which represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale 2017, depicts a brash and baroque binary world of poverty ...

Watch Now

Again and Again and Again (2016)

A supersaturated satire with a look into the land of data-addicted monk-like figures and dance-crazed rabbits. ...

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Feed Me (2015)

Feed Me is a larger than life fairy tale, part TV talent show, part thriller, video game in which Maclean plays all the parts ...

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Eyes To Me (2014)

Sophie goes on a killing spree in a candy-coloured world. ...

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Germs (2013)

In Germs, female stereotypes, pseudoscience and promised happiness clash with violent consequences. ...

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Over The Rainbow (2013)

Inspired by the Technicolor utopias of children's television, Over The Rainbow invites the viewer into a shape-shifting world inhabited by cuddly monsters, faceless clones and gruesome pop divas. Shot entirely using green-screen the film presents a synthet ...

Watch Now

The Lion and the Unicorn (2012)

"The Lion and The Unicorn" is a short film inspired by the heraldic symbols found on the Royal Coat of Arms of The United Kingdom, the lion (representing England) and the unicorn (representing Scotland). The piece uses representations of both alliance and ...

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