Approved: 02.01.2018

Bridget Macdonald

Artist

Approved: 02.01.2018

My work has progressed over the years from a particular interest in the figure, to the figure in the landscape and then to the landscape itself and its place in our imagination. I am interested in the links between literature and the visual arts, in mythology and autobiography, and in art historical sources and references.  For more information go to http://www.bridgetmacdonald.co.uk

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    Artist Statement

    My work has progressed over the years from a particular interest in the figure, to the figure in the landscape and then to the landscape itself and its place in our imagination. I am interested in the links between literature and the visual arts, in mythology and autobiography, and in art historical sources and references.  For more information go to http://www.bridgetmacdonald.co.uk

     

    CV & Education

    Public realm : solo exhibitions (selected)

    2016  This Green Earth:  Bridget Macdonald and the Landscape Tradition of Claude Lorrain,

    Samuel Palmer and Peter Paul Rubens, Worcester City Art Gallery

    2013  The Poetry of Earth, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight 

    2006 Inland, Worcester City Art Gallery, Foregate Street, Worcester 

    2005 Drawings 1998-2004, University of Birmingham, The Rotunda, Aston Webb Building, Edgbaston 

    2005 - Sea Light, Quay Arts, Isle of Wight 

    1998 - Figures in a Distant Landscape, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton 

    Public realm:  group exhibitions (selected)

    1990  Mothers, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham and touring to Middlesbrough and Carlisle

    2005   How Art is Made, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery   

    Solo exhibitions in private galleries:

    2012  Arcadia, Art First, Eastcastle Street, London

    2009 - Time and Place, Art First, 9 Cork Street, London 

    Group exhibitions in private galleries: (selected)

    2015/16  Figure, Art First, Eastcastle Street, London 

    2012  Natural History, Art First, Eastcastle Street, London

    2014  Moon, Art First, Eastcastle Street, London

    2015  Delineations, Art First, Eastcastle Street, London  

    2006 - Translations: from the National Gallery, Art First Contemporary Art, 9 Cork Street, London