Fiona Mc Donald (IE) is a media artist working at the intersection of art, ecology, and technology. She holds a BSc in Biological Chemistry from University of Ulster a BA & MA in Fine Art from NCAD & a MSc in Multimedia Systems TCD. Her current research explores carbon cycles and more-than-human temporalities through Ireland’s restored peatlands recovering from years of peat extraction. Working across sculpture, installation, print, hardware, and code, her small-file methodology resists speed and scale, attuning instead to ecological time: slowness as resistance and care.
She is a current Art in Science resident at Parity Studios University College Dublin UCD. She was Artist in Residence AIR at RHA Gallery Studios 2023. In 2020/21 she was AIR in innovation and technology at Talent Garden on DCU Alpha Campus. In 2019 she was an http://urgentenuiry.ie Artist In Residence. She was a visiting research assistant of OMG Orthogonal Methods Group at CONNECT the Science Foundation Ireland research center for future communication network 2016 -2019. Mc Donald has received multiple Arts Council of Ireland awards including a Bursary Award 2025, Project Award 2024 and 2023. In 2025 she was invited to present her work at SCI_ART 2025 The landmark EU-Canada Symposium of Art, Science and Technology SCI_ART at SAW center Ottawa Canada and Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Okanagan British Columbia.
Recent exhibitions include Solo Exhibition Inhale Exhale - Ecologies that Refuse to Behave across the Petronella Brown and O'hUiginn Galleries at the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA). Recent group exhibitions include BogSkin at RHA Gallery 2025, In Real Life at National Gallery of Ireland 2024, PRUF: at the Library Project 2024, Monochromatic at Graphic Gallery Dublin selected by Catherine Daunt. A solo exhibition “Transcoding - The Living Mountain” at Talent Garden ,DCU Alpha Campus. “Woman in the Machine” at VISUAL Gallery Carlow for which her work won the ARTWORK Prize 2021 . In the age of Conscious Makers NCAD Gallery 2020. Solo exhibition “Gateways” at Roscommon Arts Center 2018 curated by Linda Shevlin. A commission from Science Gallery Dublin for the Incase Of Emergency Exhibit 2017-2018 Light Lines at Mermaid Arts Center 2017 ,Quantum Leap at Foundation15 and U-turn at The Library Project in August 2015. In 2019 she was AIR on “An Urgent Enquiry Residency” In 2016 she was an Art in Science Resident at UCD Parity Studios, Dublin. Other residencies include Digital Media Residency at Firestation Artist Studios Dublin & Project studio award at Temple Bar Gallery & Studios.
She has taken part in group exhibitions at Broadstone Studios, LAB Gallery, Green on Red Gallery, Hugh Lane Gallery, the Digital Hub, & the Drawing Project ,Dublin. Her works have been exhibited internationally in Copenhagen, Paris, New York LA & at the Cologne Art Fair. In 2021 & 2022 she codelivered lectures in Critical Practices of environment and ecology , NCAD. In 2017 & 2016 she worked as a visiting lecturer on the Interactive Design MA at NCAD. From 2013-2015 she also worked as a part-time media lecturer on the MA ,Art in the Digital World & with BA Media Students at NCAD. She has also worked as a part-time Print lecturer at IADT & DIT . Her work is included in collections AIB, UCD, Digital Hub, Thomas St, Dublin, Scott Tallon Walker, Arc
Contact : mcdonafiona@gmail.com