Fiona MacDonald’s visually imaginative works spread across a wide territory of subject matter and materials, continually cross-referencing one to another. Her imagery originates in natural forms, the core subject of her research being morphology, resemblance and evolutionary development. The work echoes this in several ways - an almost Klein blue bleeds into several paintings, serving in one as a barely believable sky, reappearing as the electric veins of a biomorphic structure in another. Shifts in scale, colour, or a flip on the axis turn one thing into another. In some of the larger paintings, MacDonald’s manipulations of scale transport the close up view of a small organism or structure out into big space – set against horizons of indeterminable scale and almost science fictional hue.

Fiona MacDonald lives and works in London. Her solo shows include Anthropoflora, Long & Ryle, London in 2007 and Habitat, Phoenix, Brighton in 2006. Group Shows include Dirty Nature, Standpoint Gallery; Celeste Art Prize, London and Edinburgh; and Intervention, Fieldgate Gallery, all 2007. She studied at Leeds Metropolitan and Chelsea College of Art.

Solo show Morphology - March 26 - May 2 2009 at Maddox Arts, London