No items are for sale and nothing is quite what it seems at Rachel Maclean’s ‘shop’ on Ayr high street
The former butcher’s shop in Ayr that Rachel Maclean has turned into a space where people can reflect on urban decline ‘in a surreal, potentially quite fun way’.The former butcher’s shop in Ayr that Rachel Maclean has turned into a space where people can reflect on urban decline ‘in a surreal, potentially quite fun way’.With its grubby pastel paint and wonky signage, Rachel Maclean’s shopfront on Ayr high street at first appears like any other in a town centre that has seen better days.
“What art can do best is to make you look at things that you’re very used to in a different way,” says Maclean, who has represented Scotland at the Venice Biennale and once“Sadly the decline of our city centres is something that is banal these days, so I want to bring people into a space where they can reflect on it in a surreal, potentially quite fun way.”
Matilda Coleman, six, picks up one of the dolls – a blonde-haired, blue-eyed Disneyfied princess - and turns her upside down. The wide skirt inverts too, revealing a pale-faced witchy version of the dolly underneath. The girl is sold, then perplexed that the toy isn’t available to buy.
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