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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.

Underlying all sources, the process and language of painting is the driving force of the work.

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

Maddox Arts

Contact - mail@fionamacdonald.co.uk