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Tony Mines was a pioneer of the brickfilm movement as it shifted online around the turn of the century.

Insane.

The artist talks Scottish independence, teenage angst, and her first permanent public installation at Jupiter Artland.

Artist Rachel Macleans firs permanent outdoor commission created in Jupiter Artland in West Lothian combines architecture and animation ONCE upon a time, in the middle of the woods, there was an upside-down shop. And in the upside-down shop there was an upside-down girl … “You follow the hearts,” the artist Rachel Maclean tells me as we walk through the trees. On the ground in front of us a trail of candy-coloured cordiform tiles are embedded in the soil. We are in a bosky glade in ...

Fisun Güner , May 1st, 2021 08:18 With a new solo show opening at Edinburghs Jupiter Artland in a week, Rachel Maclean talks to Fisun Güner about film-making, fairytales, and looking forward The imagery is often violent – tongues get cut out, noses yanked off, human limbs cannibalised. The world of Scottish artist Rachel Maclean is a Grand Guignol horror show, but the horror comes encased in a big, gooey powder-pink meringue. Her films capture something of the heightened aesthetics of My Li...

In the last year, we have all become digital humans, casting our virtual net far and wide as our lives shrank to hearth, home and heath, punctuated with the odd supermarket visit to spice things up. In visual arts, festivals and galleries alike have had to weather many a storm in order to come out the other side. The good news is that Scotlands art spaces should start opening up after April 26. So if like me, you have been missing seeing actual art, what is there to look forward to this year?...