artists / curators / writers
Fiona MacDonald
Country of residence
United Kingdom
The focus in the new work is almost uncomfortably close, at a point where the imagery becomes ambiguous, the plant-like forms merging with suggestions of internal organs or unsettling acts. MacDonald reinvents the tradition of landscape painting by acknowledging Nature to be an active, turbulent space rather than a vista or sublime experience. This overheated environment is echoed by the layered and intertwined veils of transparent paint - where form and colour compete as if in an evolutionary battle for survival.
2007 Anthropoflora Long and Ryle, London
2006 Habitat Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2004 On the Verge Vertigo, London
Selected Group Shows
2007 Irrational Exuberance Brooks Mews, London
Celeste Art Prize London and Edinburgh
Dirty Nature Standpoint Gallery, London
Creekside Open 2 APT, London (selected by Matthew Collings and Emma Biggs)
Intervention Fieldgate Gallery, London
2006 Breeding Ground APT, Deptford.
Enclosed Gardens Long and Ryle, London
Drawn An Lanntair, Stornoway, Scotland
The Marmite Painting Prize The Residence, London
2005 Elsewhere Standpoint Gallery, London
Furniture of Sorts Stroud House Gallery, Glos.
Chata Mia CESTA, Tabor, Czech Republic
30 x 30 Vertigo, Great Eastern Street, London
2004 Vital Arts Royal London and St Bartholomew Hospitals, London
Rebecca Wordsworth Contemporary Art, Bath
Escape Irregular Art, London
2003 Glimmer Lock and Davies, London
Summer Show Beatrice Royal Gallery, Southampton
2002 Hindsight Karen Taylor Art, London
Vital Arts Royal London Hospital
2001 Arcadia Paton Gallery, London
Contradictory Pleasures Union Chapel, London
I, Me, You, We SVC, London
1996 Hystheoria Chelsea School of Art, Manresa Rd,
1993 Young Artists South East Maidstone and Folkestone Library Galleries (touring)
1992 Pullit X Pullit Gallery, London
