Often involving multiples, repetition in her work is both rumination and meditation on everyday interactions with environment, self and other. Macdonald’s work has incorporated elements of performance, video, photography, painting, and found objects. Most recently focusing on clay to explore identity, materiality and connection. Her practice is both conceptual and experiential. 

Working phenomenologically, she explores themes of identity and relationship. Macdonald’s explorations in clay incorporate both fired and unfired ceramics to create installations that invite interaction with the viewer. Using simple forms, repeated in multiple, with subtle shifts in shape, texture and colour, her work aims to explore and challenge the conventions and expectations of social norms, particularly as they apply to traditionally female roles.