The Quietus | Features | Craft/Work | Round & Round, You're Turning Me: An Interview with Rachel Maclean
Fisun Güner , May 1st, 2021 08:18 With a new solo show opening at Edinburgh's 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 Little Pony, but the appropriation and hybridity of pop-visual cultures is far-ranging, from Disney t...