Catherine Macdonald studied Fine Arts at Wanganui Regional Polytechnic and graduated in 1997 with a BFA majoring in Printmaking. In 1998 she was Community Artist in Residence for the Community Arts Council Wanganui and she partook in another Residency in 1999 at Pompallier in Russell. In 2003 Macdonald was commissioned to Design and Hand Print the cover for Real Life Bird Song published by Wai-te-Ata Press, V.U.W. She has had articles published in Imprint, The Journal of the Print Council of Australia and Printmaking Today, UK.

Macdonald's work is held in collections in New Zealand, Australia and the UK.

Image: Title: If Only She'd Take You For a Ride	Image: Title: Off You Go Then	Image: Title: In between it all	Image: Title: That Place
Image: Title: Way to go	Image: Title: Soon Gone	Image: Title: That was then	Image: Title: She Sat Back and Waited
Image: Title: It was time	Image: Title: a time and place	Image: Title: Places to be	Image: Title: I'd just leave them to it
Image: Title: Why'd you throw it away if you just want it back?	Image: Title: She Quite Often Saw Tuis	Image: Title: they got going while the going was good	Image: Title: she could have told him he was going the wrong way but where's the fun in that
Image: Title: the rain had poetic timing to say the least	Image: Title: You'd Give Your Kingdom For It	Image: Title: he was not the sort to play ball	Image: Title: The Dark Horses Gathered
Image: Title: They've Been Like That For Hours	Image: Title: Digging Up The Past	Image: Title: Sit and Stay	Image: Title: Looking Back to the Future
Image: Title: Shot My Paw	Image: Title: Only 2	Image: Title: Talk About Going in Circles	Image: Title: A Goldfish
Image: Title: Just Something I Picked Up	Image: Title: In a Night Such as This	Image: Title: in their own way they were going places	Image: Title: Dandylion
Image: Title: Not something I see everyday	Image: Title: The Evidence Suggests That Someone Had Let The Cat Out of the Bag	Image: Title: You'd gone before	Image: Title: He Stopped for a Moment Then Went Off into the Blue/Black of Dusk
Image: Title: It had been no surprise to find she was not the only one to go this way	Image: Title: This was the place of things to come	Image: Title: he didn't gamble but he was one to push his luck	Image: Title: Here it is
Image: Title: Untitled (dog)	Image: Title: No place like it	Image: Title: she went in look of things that came to her on the wind	Image: Title: it was the thrill of the chase that lived on in his dreams
Image: Title: in a perfect world you long for imperfection	Image: Title: he anticipated their meetings with great joy	Image: Title: he claimed he was going places she reckoned he was going nowhere	Image: Title: Don't Even Notice
Image: Title: Out Walking One Day	Image: Title: The Quiet was Answer Enough	Image: Title: Still Life: From the heart	Image: Title: Still Life: Playing his own game
Image: Title: Still Life: Still a mystery	Image: Title: Still Life: Stop and smell the roses or what ever else is at hand	Image: Title: Still Life: But not quite diamonds and roses	Image: Title: You'd gone before
Image: Title: No Oasis of Mine