Ranny Macdonald

Ranny Macdonald

Ranny Macdonald (b. 1994)  is a London based painter and musician based. By seeing through the eyes of the city’s dogs and pigeons, or in still life paintings of anthropomorphic flowers, Macdonald’s works create a space to consider our relationship with ‘Nature’ or the more-than-human world. Beyond their visual language, which draws from early Pixar as much as the history of painting, the works employ a restricted palette of locally sourced earth pigments; affording them opportunities to embody their subjects more deeply, and celebrate the limits of unprocessed colour. 

 

 Since his  graduation from the Royal Drawing School’s post-graduate programme in 2022, Macdonald has exhibited nationally and internationally. In 2023 he was selected for the Bloomberg New Contemporaries, which showed at Camden Art Centre, London and Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool.
 

 CV:

B. 1994 London, England

2012-2014 Slade School Of Fine Art (BA)

2018-2020 City And Guilds Of London Art School (BA)

2021-2022 The Royal Drawing School Drawing Year (Post-graduate programme)

 

Upcoming:

Solo:

2026 General Assembly Gallery, London 

 

Recent:

Solo:

2024 ‘One Small Step’ (solo), General Assembly, London 

2023 ‘Significant Other’ (solo), Moosey Gallery, Norwich

 

Group:

2025 Hurst Contemporary (curated by Eduardo Monti), London

2025 ‘Good Eye Projects’, Saatchi Gallery, London 

2024 ‘Utopia’, Incubator Gallery, London 

2024 ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023’, Camden Arts Centre, London

2024 ‘Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2023’, Grundy Gallery, Blackpool

2024 ‘In Praise Of Shadows’, Melzi Fine Art, Milan

2024 ‘Porquoi London’, Gertrude Art x Canopy Collections, London

2024 ‘The Seven Lamps’, Hyper Studios, London

2024 ‘Animalia’ Arc Salon, Cornwall, 2023

2023 ‘A-Z Box of Friends And Family’ Malborough Gallery, London

2022 ‘The Best Of The Drawing Year’, Christies, London,

2022 ’Pathways In Paper’, South Parade, London

2022 ’Wish Lush’, Kravitz Contemporary, London

2022 ‘Split Open’, Split Gallery, London,

2022 ‘The Amber Room’, Reference Point Library (180 The Strand), London

2022 ‘Dream Baby Dream’, Fitzrovia Gallery (Paint Talk), London,

 

Awards and Residences:

2025 Pigniano Royal Drawing School Residency 

2024 Good Eye Residency, London, May-September

2024 Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy

2023 Bloomberg new Contemporaries

2021 Scholarship programme ‘The Drawing Year’ at The Royal Drawing School 

2022 Dumfries House Residency, Ayrshire, Scotland

2020 Highly commended Beep Painting Biennale, Swansea