Rachel Maclean is a Glasgow-based multi-media artist who creates artificial visions using green-screen technology. Within her fantastical settings Maclean parodies fairy tales, children’s television programmes, beauty product advertising, internet videos, and pop culture playing all the extravagantly costumed characters herself. At once seductive and nightmarish, glossy and grotesque, her films destabilise power dynamics and consumer desires.
Art Now: Rachel Maclean: Wot u :-) about? is curated by Elsa Coustou, Assistant Curator, Contemporary British Art. Maclean’s new film work, It’s What’s Inside That Counts (2016), has been commissioned by HOME, Manchester. The film has been created in partnership with HOME, Manchester, the University of Salford Art Collection, Artpace San Antonio, Zabludowicz Collection, Tate, Frieze Film and Channel 4 Random Acts. The exhibition has been created in partnership with HOME, Manchester.
The exhibition at Tate coincides with Rachel Maclean’s Wot u :-) about?, a major solo show of new work currently showing at HOME, Manchester, 8 Jan 2017.
Rachel Maclean We Want Data! 2016 Courtesy of Rachel Maclean © Rachel Maclean
About Art Now
Art Now is a series of exhibitions at Tate Britain focusing on new and recent work by emerging artists.
Also in Art Now
Tate Britain Display
Art Now Sophie Michael: Trip (the light fantastic) 11 July 2016 – 30 October 2016
Delve into artist-filmmaker Michael's exploration of our relationship to the past
Tate Britain Display
Art Now The Darks: Ruth Ewan and Astrid Johnston
Explore the area around Tate Britain, once the site of the infamous Millbank Prison with The Darks audio tour
Venue
Tate BritainMillbankLondonSW1P 4RGPlan your visit
Dates
15 November 2016 – 2 April 2017