Peter McDonald

Kate MacGarry is pleased to present a solo exhibition of new works by Peter McDonald. Featuring wall paintings that extend across the gallery, the works bring to the fore the artist’s studio and the acts of painting and looking. About McDonald reflects on the nature of creativity, while playfully reconfiguring pictorial space. Celebrating often overlooked, everyday experiences, the ballooning and overlapping heads of McDonald’s figures suggest a joyful, communal consciousness. While some works move towards complete abstraction, these are mediated by the paintings-within-paintings that allow him greater freedom to explore abstract mark-making. Heightened by his use of bright colour, the works traverse the boundaries between genres. Over more than two decades, McDonald has developed a distinct painting language that remains remarkably consistent while continuing to expand its possibilities. McDonald previously created a large-scale billboard installation at Southwark Station as part of Art on the Underground in 2009. Other wall-based works include the participatory immersive painting Disco (2011) at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa and a wall painting at the Miyako City Tokyo hotel in 2019. Peter McDonald was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1973 and currently lives and works between London and Tokyo. Recent solo exhibitions include Cocktails , Gallery Side 2, Tokyo (2024); Kate MacGarry, London (2021); Sampo , Gallery Side 2 / void+, Tokyo (2021); This, that and the other , Dio Horia, Greece (2018); Winnebago, Carpets, Onsen, Potter , Daiwa Foundation, London (2013) and Visitor , the culmination of a year-long residency at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (2011-12). Read more Toggle Painting Installation