Andrew McDonald’s making process is intense, extended periods of drawing and production demanding months of the artist’s time, Be this animation or large-scale ink drawing. Imagery of caves, lightning bolts or pieces of rope are drawn with a line of nervous energy. McDonald is preoccupied with romantic notions of the tortured artist and its place in modernism something he finds equally heroic and absurd.

Andrew McDonald is Manchester based, teaches at the University of Central Lancashire. He has exhibited nationally and internationally, including with MIMA, Castlefield Gallery, Chapter, The Grundy Gallery, and was featured in British Art Show 6.