Fiona Macdonald
Fiona MacDonald makes alternate realities, scenarios or details - paintings and sculptures that act together –which are constructed from various sculptural materials, found objects, living and natural organisms. Her work borrows from sci-fi, Romanticism and an overactive imagination as well as the ongoing experience and observation of nature. There is a constant exploratory roving between the act of making, dealing with the nature of the material, and the seductive gazing at or being in nature. She shows a way through the philosophical and aesthetic fracture between nature and our cognitive experience of it. 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.
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