MOTHER’S SKIRT
These paintings incorporate fragments of her mother’s skirt, a gesture that transforms them into vessels of personal and generational history. Here the body is presented as absence, as memory, as something inherited. McDonald’s mother was distant, her relationship to love and sexuality marked by silence. That silence lingers in these works, where the traces of fabric become more than just material; they are symbols of what was unspoken and what was withheld. By juxtaposing the maternal with the carnal, McDonald creates a dialogue between generations, confronting the legacies of repression that have shaped her understanding of intimacy.
Mother’s Skirt XII - Acrylic on cotton, linen, canvas collage, 51 x 43.5 cm
Mother's Skirt X - Acrylic, linen on canvas, 85.5 x 65.5 cm
Mother’s Skirt III - 30.5 x 23 cm
Mother’s Skirt II - 33.5 x 23 cm
Mother’s Skirt IV- 30.5 x 23 cm
Mother’s Skirt I - 30.5 x 23 cm
Mother’s Skirt V - 30.5 x 23 cm
Mother’s Skirt VII - 30.5 x 23 cm
Mother’s Skirt VI - 30.5 x 23 cm
Mother’s Skirt VIII - 30.5 x 23 cm
All works are acrylic, linen on canvas