STATEMENT
Caroline Macdonald is an Oxford/London-based printmaker working across two and three dimensions. Her practice navigates the space between physical and digital, where history and antiquity is fragmented, reimagined, and glitched into new temporal forms.
She treats the museum like a garden, a site of cultivation, harvesting artifacts and imagery “ripe for the picking” to reflect on her personal history and our collective moment. Time jumps to reveal anxiety, fragments as we glimpse the immensity of digital time, and backward glances to grasp at something long forgotten or never known. Drawing, photography and painting begin the process, capturing fragments. Back in the studio, these are unravelled and reconstructed using a range of traditional and digital print techniques.
Tension slides between the encounter with the scale of the work and the precarity of its materiality. Timelines fold; Baroque grandeur crumples and ancient forms disintegrate. Caroline uses the language of error; the slip and blur of the digital glitch to create chromatic fissures which dissolve the usual boundaries between past and present, object and image, physical and digital.
Caroline completed a master’s in fine art Print at the Royal College of Art 2023.
Caroline Macdonald is an Oxford/London-based printmaker working across two and three dimensions. Her practice navigates the space between physical and digital, where history and antiquity is fragmented, reimagined, and glitched into new temporal forms.
She treats the museum like a garden, a site of cultivation, harvesting artifacts and imagery “ripe for the picking” to reflect on her personal history and our collective moment. Time jumps to reveal anxiety, fragments as we glimpse the immensity of digital time, and backward glances to grasp at something long forgotten or never known. Drawing, photography and painting begin the process, capturing fragments. Back in the studio, these are unravelled and reconstructed using a range of traditional and digital print techniques.
Tension slides between the encounter with the scale of the work and the precarity of its materiality. Timelines fold; Baroque grandeur crumples and ancient forms disintegrate. Caroline uses the language of error; the slip and blur of the digital glitch to create chromatic fissures which dissolve the usual boundaries between past and present, object and image, physical and digital.
Caroline completed a master’s in fine art Print at the Royal College of Art 2023.
BIO
MA Fine Art Print, Royal College of Art 2023
AWARDS
First Prize award - Macfarlanes Art Prize 2026 with New Platform Art.
Editorial prize at the RBSA Print Biennale 2024 - by Printmaking Today June 2024 Issue.
2026
‘Disturbances’ group show @Thameside Gallery
Irving Gallery Open 2026
2025
‘What if’ St Johns college, Oxford University
2024
New Platform Art 2024/5
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Ovada August 2024 Summer Residency
‘Between Nothing and Not a Thing’ - Group show @Zephyr Gallery
RSBA Gallery Print Biennale 2024
GROUP SHOWS 2023
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
‘FORMED’ with Future Heritage at Chelsea Design Centre
‘Maxwell’s Drawer’ with RCA Print London
‘Aesthetics of Bliss’- 67 York Street Gallery London
Graduate Show RCA Battersea
‘Isolarion’ with Cassie Vaughan RCA Print
‘Two-Fold’ Southwalk Park Galleries with RCA Print
SOLO SHOWS
2022 ‘In Memoriam’ @Oxford Brookes
2021 ‘Slip ‘N’ Slide’ @ Oxford Brookes
GROUP SHOWS 2021
‘The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog’ online show with Cohort Art
MA Fine Art Print, Royal College of Art 2023
AWARDS
First Prize award - Macfarlanes Art Prize 2026 with New Platform Art.
Editorial prize at the RBSA Print Biennale 2024 - by Printmaking Today June 2024 Issue.
2026
‘Disturbances’ group show @Thameside Gallery
Irving Gallery Open 2026
2025
‘What if’ St Johns college, Oxford University
2024
New Platform Art 2024/5
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
Ovada August 2024 Summer Residency
‘Between Nothing and Not a Thing’ - Group show @Zephyr Gallery
RSBA Gallery Print Biennale 2024
GROUP SHOWS 2023
Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair
‘FORMED’ with Future Heritage at Chelsea Design Centre
‘Maxwell’s Drawer’ with RCA Print London
‘Aesthetics of Bliss’- 67 York Street Gallery London
Graduate Show RCA Battersea
‘Isolarion’ with Cassie Vaughan RCA Print
‘Two-Fold’ Southwalk Park Galleries with RCA Print
SOLO SHOWS
2022 ‘In Memoriam’ @Oxford Brookes
2021 ‘Slip ‘N’ Slide’ @ Oxford Brookes
GROUP SHOWS 2021
‘The Quick Brown Fox Jumps over the Lazy Dog’ online show with Cohort Art