Rachel Maclean (artist)

She has received significant acclaim with solo shows at Tate Britain and The National Gallery, London, and she represented Scotland at the 2017 Venice Biennale with her film Spite Your Face.

[3] Maclean produces elaborate films and digital prints using extravagant costume, over-the-top make-up, green screen vfx and electronic soundtracks.

She uses computer technology to generate her locations, and borrows audio from television and cinema to construct narratives with a comedic touch.

[5] 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.

She explores issues of identity, class, nationalism and gender, whilst referencing narrative structures from pop culture and fairy-tales.