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The Cardiff schoolboy who worked for Gordon Ramsay and starred on MasterChef
Richard Synan has worked with some of the best chefs in the world and now runs his own restaurant
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Spoon in hand, face covered in cake batter, and smiling for the camera, Richard Synan has always felt at home in the kitchen.
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 to video games, pop videos and stage musicals, social media, and even – especially when she dwells on Scottish identity – the 18th and 19th century political satires of Hogarth and Cruickshank. And just as we’re getting hopelessly lost in these pimped-up surreal fantasias, the presence of emojis and hearts pull us into an instantly recognisable online world.