‘Fiona MacDonald is known for her paintings and sculptures of botanical and biological matter that situate the viewer between traditional notions of beauty, and hybrid visions of a fleshy horticulture. These fantastically biodiverse scenes, however painterly, appear charged with a curiously time-based energy, the tandem sense of growth and decomposition implying movement in and out of technological fast-forward and rewind. Physical laws are renegotiated through her different material approaches: fissures created between representation and abstraction inviting enquiry into the way one expects things to behave in space, or makes sense of the intellectual gap between image and object. MacDonald's relational play between dimensions reinforces a clear interest in the slipperiness of reality as concept: and how a static object, the layers of an image or a combination of materials might articulate this sense of indeterminacy.’

Rebecca Geldard 2010

Education

1997                Chelsea College of Art        MA History and Theory of Modern Art

1992                Leeds Metropolitan             BA Fine Art

Solo Shows

2009                Maddox Arts, London              Morphology

2007                Long and Ryle, London            Anthropoflora

2007                Phoenix Arts, Brighton            Habitat

2004                Vertigo Gallery London            On the Verge

Duo Shows

2010                CoExist, Southend                 Phyllida Barlow and Fiona MacDonald

                       Exeter Phoenix                     A Point in the Field, with Anne Gathmann

2007                Standpoint Gallery, London      Dirty Nature, with John Holland

Selected Group Shows

2010                Stedefreund Berlin                  Doris, co-curated with Liz Murray

                       Royal Academy                     Summer Exhibition

                       Londonnewcastle Space         Unnatural Selection

2009                Ist International and Galata     Who is Telling the Story? curated by Basement

                       Perform, Istanbul                   Art Projects

                       Matt Roberts Arts                   Salon 09, selected by Ceri Hand

                       The Tea House                      3rd Water Tower international Artfest

Selected Publications and Press

2010      A Point in the Field, cat. with text by Rebecca Geldard and dialogue by the artists

             AN Magazine, front cover, June issue

             Garagelend Magazine issue 9 'Future', dialogue between Fiona MacDonald and Anne  Gathmann   

2009      Artworld Magazine, Top Ten UK shows - Morphology

              Basement Art Magazine , issue 2