Edinburgh Printmakers

Rachel Maclean: I HEART SCOTLAND

2 August – 7 September 2013

This solo exhibition by Glasgow based artist Rachel Maclean premieres a new film and a series of screenprints, commissioned and published by Edinburgh Printmakers over the last two years. 

Producing work that slips inside and outside of history, Maclean explores Scotland’s romantic past through the lens of contemporary political debate. Employing a monstrously alluring aesthetic, the work explores a hybrid of styles that reference the rugged romance of Scottish Landscape painting, the all-smiling, futurist visions of political propaganda and the hyper-saturated pop colours of Oor Wullie. 

Maclean is the only actor or model in the work, using costume and face paint to invent characters that drink North Sea oil from Jacobite crystal, divide up pieces of a Union Jack cake and incite conflict over the mispronunciation of the poetry of Robert Burns. At once violently positive and grotesquely kitsch, Maclean's work employs dark humour to create a complex and surreal vision of contemporary Scottish and British national identity.

Tues–Sun, 10am–6pm

Free admission

Events

1 August 2013
Artist talk: Rachel Maclean

6–7pm

Free admission

1 August 2013
Exhibition Preview: I HEART SCOTLAND

7–9pm

Free, all welcome

7 August 2013
Rachel Maclean's Costume Workshop

2–4:30pm

£12 per child with one adult, booking essential.

31 August 2013
Parley Discussion: Tae Think Again, Rethinking Identity in Contemporary Scotland (curated by Rachel Maclean)

2–5pm

Free admission. Book tickets.

1 September 2013
Artist talk by Rachel Maclean

12:30pm

Free. Book tickets.