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Fiona MacDonald, Cumulissa, 2009.
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. Fiona MacDonald is currently exhibiting at 'A Point in the Field', a duo show with Anne Gathmann at Exeter Phoenix. MacDonald completed her MA at Chelsea College of Art and BA at Leeds Metropolitan University. Her work has been shown widely in the UK and...
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