BRIDGET MACDONALD  
         
 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2024 A Deeper Landscape: paintings and drawings around the theme of landscape and memory, Art First, London
2023 Rain, Wind and Change, South Cloister, Worcester Cathedral

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2020

Field and Orchard. Selected paintings and drawings (26 August - 27 September), The Great Barn, Much Marcle, Herefordshire

  Another Country, Paintings and Drawings, The Courtyard, Hereford
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:
Drawings & Paintings
Quay Arts
Isle of Wight

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2012 Arcadia, Art First, London
2009 Time and Place, Art First, London
2006 'Bridget Macdonald - Inland', Art First, London
  'Bridget Macdonald - Inland', Worcester City Art Gallery
2005 'Sea Light: Island Paintings', Rope Store Gallery, Isle of Wight
  Drawings 1998 - 2004, The Rotunda, University of Birmingham

2002

Drawings and Paintings, Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, Bath

2001

'Pastoral Drawings', Art First, London

2000

'Sounds and Sweet Airs: two summers at Glyndebourne', Art First, London

Glyndebourne Drawings, Six Chapel Row Contemporary Art, Bath

1998

'Figures in a Distant Landscape', Wolverhampton Art Gallery and Derby Art Gallery

1997

'The Water Cure and other stories', Art First, London

1996

Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight

Art First, London: Front Room Focus

1993

Lichfield Festival Artist, Lichfield Cathedral

'Classical Variations', St. Georges Brandon Hill, Bristol

1992

'In the Mind's Eye', Midlands Contemporary Art Ltd

1991

'Drawings on Literary Themes', Midlands Contemporary Art Ltd, Birmingham

Worcester City Art Gallery (with Rod Judkins)

1989

'New Art Wolverhampton Series', Bilston Art Gallery

Quay Arts Centre, Newport, Isle of Wight



Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Art First London, Celebrating 30 Years!
2023 February’s Feast, Group Exhibition featuring Kevin Laycock, Gillian Lever, Simon Lewty, Alex Lowery, Bridget Macdonald, Jack Milroy, Simon Morley, Donald Teskey, Mimei Thompson, Graeme Williams
2022 Clay Fire - Paper Paint, Molly Attrill and Bridget Macdonald. Claydon Gallery, Quay Arts, Newport, Isle of Wight
  Six Artists in Search of the Perfect Hill, Ludlow Assembly Rooms
2018 Paper Matters II: Christopher Cook, Simon Lewty, Will Maclean, Bridget Macdonald, Jack Milroy (Art First in residence at the Eagle Gallery)
2017 Paper Matters: Christopher Cook, Simon Lewty, Bridget Macdonald, Will Maclean, Jack Milroy, Simon Morley. (Art First in residence at the Eagle Gallery)
 

From Rocken End to Binnel, Molly Attrill: Pots / Bridget Macdonald: Paintings and Drawings, The Clayton Gallery, Isle of Wight

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2015 Figure, Art First, London
2012 THE MAGIC HOUR: Exploring cinematography in painting, Worcester City Art Gallery
2009 ZOOM – Looking Back/Looking Forward, Art First, London
2007 Glyndebourne Festival Opera, invited artist
2006 'Translations', Art First, London

2004

'Elemental Arts', Art First, London and touring (Fired Earth)

  'On Paper...', Art First, London

2003

'Look, Stranger', Art First, London

2002

The Pastel Society Annual Exhibition, London: invited artist

'12 x 12', Art First, London

2001

'10 x 10', Art First, London

2000

'Blake's Heaven', Scolar Fine Art, London

1998/99/00

Glyndebourne Festival Opera: invited artist

1998

'The A to Z of Art', Stoke City Museum and Art Gallery

1997/98

'Women on Men', Theatr Clwyd, N. Wales and touring

 

Pringle International Art Gallery, Princeton, NJ, USA

1996/03

The Discerning Eye, London

1996/97/98/02

The Hunting Art Prizes, London

1996

'Pictures at an Exhibition', ReVisions Project, Barber Institute of Fine Arts and Midlands Arts Centre, Birmingham

1994/98

Cheltenham Open Drawing

1994

'Beasts: Myths and Legends', Gateway Arts Centre, Shrewsbury

'Figures in Line', Art First, London

1993

'Joie de Vivre', Midlands Contemporary Art Ltd, Birmingham

1992

'Artist and Subject', Worcester City Art Gallery

'The Landscape Within', Turnpike Gallery, Leigh

1991/92

10th International Cleveland Drawing Biennale

1990

The Human Presence', Midlands Contemporary Art Ltd, Birmingham

1990/91

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

1989/90

'Inner Language', Ikon Gallery Touring Exhibition

1989

'Women's Images', Wolverhampton Art Gallery

1988 - 1992

The Leicestershire Collection Annual Exhibition