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Fiona MacDonald (born in Rockhampton Queensland, Australia ) is an Australian artist known for her installations and body of work that draw on local cultural traditions, social and natural history.

Education
Fiona MacDonald attended the College of Art, Brisbane and received a Bachelor of Arts, Fine Arts from the South Australian School of Art, University of South Australia.

Art Practice
MacDonald's practice draws on local cultural traditions, social and natural histories. Working with neglected archives and personal collections, decorative arts and crafts. Using mediums such as weaving, collage, wallpaper and graphic arts. Her installations address the undercurrents of social processes of inclusion and exclusion in the form of 'conversations'.

MacDonald began exhibiting in the mid-1980's in Sydney and since has undertaken several commissions and residencies that work with and interpret museums and their collection. MacDonald developed an art practice based on her close bond to her hometown, Rockhampton. This concept straddles the local/regional and the metropolitan/global. In 1993, MacDonald researched archives and collections from Rockhampton and Central Queensland that contributed to creating a ‘portrait of a people’ living in a mid-sized Australian town over time.

Her work has been part of major contemporary exhibitions such as the 9th Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art and Australian Perspecta. As well as on an international scale in cities such as Tokyo, Paris, London, Washington DC and New York.

Other museum collection based projects and exhibitions include 'One Square Mile’, Museum of Brisbane, City Hall Brisbane (2003); The Australia Projects: Federation Festival, RMIT Gallery Melbourne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australian Centre of Contemporary Art, Melbourne, Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Second Nature P3 Art Tokyo, Japan and National Gallery of Australia in Canberra.

MacDonald has produced public art works for Customs House Sydney Public Art Project for the City of Sydney 1998, Time Walk, Campbell Parade, Bondi, Waverley Council 1999; Millennium Tympanum, Sydney International Airport and Sydney Olympics 2000.

Her concept for the Sea of Hands proposed by Jo Holder and AAAR! (Australian Artists Against Racism!) to ANTaR (Australians for Native Title and Reconciliation) in 1997 proved to be a powerful tool for Australian Reconciliation.

MacDonald is currently working on Obsolete (working title), a meditation on post-industrial futures from the perspective of Kandos, a small regional town in regional NSW.

Awards
MacDonald received the Fremantle Arts Centre Print Award in 2015.