WHEN : July 4, 6:00 – 8:00pm
WHERE : Current Projects
Current Projects presents a solo exhibition of video works by Glasgow artist Rachel Maclean. The exhibition examines Scottish identity in relation to history, mythology and popular culture.
The Lion and the Unicorn is Rachel’s first Australian exhibition and will be open for viewing from 4 – 14 July.
“My work slips inside and outside of history and into imagined futures, creating hyper-glowing, artificially saturated visions that are both nauseatingly positive and cheerfully grotesque. I am a Glasgow based artist working largely in green screen composite video and digital print, often exhibiting this alongside props, costumes and related sculpture and painting.
I am the only actor or model in my work and invent a variety of characters that mime to appropriated audio and toy with age and gender. These clones embody unstable identities: conversing, interacting and shifting between cartoonish archetypes, ghostly apparitions and hollow inhuman playthings. My video attempts to unify the aesthetic of The Dollar Store, Youtube, Manga, Hieronymus Bosch and High Renaissance painting with MTV style green screen and channel changing cuts.
Inspired by the Britney Spears head shaving, I explore the moment at which unified, constructed identity throws itself up and tips into its opposite. The instant of self-consumption, when the signature white smile of the teen pop sensation begins to hungrily gnaw at it’s own image.” – Rachel Maclean (www.rachelmaclean.com)
Current Projects is Metro Arts’ 2012 Artist-Run Initiative in Residence
Metro Arts acknowledges the assistance of the Queensland Government through Arts Queensland
Current Projects
Studio 3.5, Level 3, Metro Arts, 109 Edward Street, Brisbane
Gallery Hours: Wednesday – Friday 11-4:30pm Saturday 2-5pm | Closed public holidays
W: www.currentprojects.org | E: info@currentprojects.org
Image: Mother and Child 2009, digital print.
