About Rachel Maclean

Over the last 10 years Rachel Maclean’s films have shown widely in the UK and internationally, in galleries, museums, film festivals and on television. She has received significant acclaim, with major solo shows at Tate Britain, National Gallery London, Kunsthalle zu Kiel Germany, Arsenal Contemporary New York, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Talbot Rice Gallery Edinburgh, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, National Gallery of Australia Canberra, Artpace San Antonio Texas and HOME Manchester. Maclean represented Scotland + Venice at the Venice Biennale 2017 with her film Spite Your Face. Her feature-length film Make Me Up premiered at London Film Festival and went on to screen in numerous festivals including Rotterdam and The Flying Broom International Women’s Film Festival in Turkey, where it won the film critics award. Her work A Whole New World won the Margaret Tait Award in 2013, she has twice been shortlisted for the Jarman Award, and achieved widespread critical praise for Feed Me in British Art Show 8 in 2016. She has also worked on a number of TV commissions including Make Me Up (2018) and Billy Connolly; Life of a Portrait (2017) for BBC and Rachel Maclean: The Shopping Centre, Artist in Residence for Channel 4 (2018). Commissioned by Jupiter Artland, upside mimi ᴉɯᴉɯ uʍop is Rachel Maclean’s first permanent outdoor artwork. www.rachelmaclean.com