Rachel Maclean

Scottish artist Rachel Maclean makes complex and layered works that reference politics, fairy tales, celebrity culture, and more. Working across a variety of media, including video, digital print, sculpture, and VR, she has shown her work widely, both in the UK and internationally, receiving critical acclaim in the spheres of film and visual art. Her major exhibitions include solo shows at Tate Britain and National Gallery, London; Arsenal Contemporary, New York; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra; Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany; KWM Artcentre, Beijing; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art. Maclean represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale in 2017 with her film commission Spite Your Face. She won the prestigious Margeret Tate Award in 2013, and her film Make Me Up received the International Federation of Film Critics award. Her latest film, upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop, is part of a permanent installation at Jupiter Artland in Edinburgh and is Maclean's first fully animated work.