Guide

Edinburgh College of Art
Edinburgh Printmakers
Rachel Maclean: I HEART SCOTLAND
2 August – 7 September
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.
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. Maclean will also be curating
an event for Parley exploring notions of identity
on 31 August – see page 46 for details.
23 Union Street, EH1 3LR
0131 557 2479
www.edinburghprintmakers.co.uk
Tues–Sun, 10am–6pm
Paul Rooney, Feral-Nowledge, 2012 (video still)
Paul Rooney and Leeds United
1 August – 1 September
In 2011 Leeds United and Paul Rooney
began working on a project in which each
scrutinised and fictionalised the other’s practice.
This exhibition extends that relationship and
deliberately blurs the edges between the work
of the artists.
On display will be new video and text works,
including a video documenting an attempt to
claim the Loch Ness monster for the collection
of the Museum of Modern Art and a dark and
ominous film concerning Yorkshire rhubarb
sheds.
Trained at ECA, Paul Rooney won the
prestigious Northern Art Prize in 2008 and was
shortlisted for the Liverpool Art Prize in 2010.
74 Lauriston Place, EH3 9DF
0131 651 5800
www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/
edinburgh-college-art
Mon–Sun, 10am–5pm
Also showing:
Collins & Goto: Spirit in the Air, CO 2 Edinburgh
1–22 August
An initiative by the artist-partnership Collins &
Goto Studio and collaborators, in which the artists
will measure – and create responses to – the
actual rate and flow of CO 2 in Edinburgh’s
environment.
Tent Gallery, Evolution House
78 Westport, EH3 9DF
Mon–Fri, 12–5pm or by appointment
Supported by Creative Carbon Scotland and ecoartscotland.
MA Art & Design
17–25 August
Discover a new generation of stars at the MA shows.
Mon–Sun, 10am–5pm
Rachel Maclean, I HEART SCOTLAND, 2013
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