Portrait of Rachel Maclean

Rachel Maclean

Directing

Biography

Rachel Maclean is a multi-media artist born in 1987 in Edinburgh. Using film and photography, she creates outlandish characters and fantasy worlds which she uses to delve into politics, society and identity. Wearing colourful costumes and make-up, Maclean takes on every role in her films herself. She uses computer technology to generate her locations, and borrows audio from television and cinema to construct narratives with a comedic touch. Maclean lives and works in Glasgow.

Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

Filmography

2024
Duck

as All characters

2018
Make Me Up

as Figurehead

2014
Eyes To Me

as Sophie

2013
2013
Germs

as Various

2012
The Lion and the Unicorn

as The Queen / English lion / Scottish unicorn