Every Window is a Holiday is Alice Macdonald's debut solo exhibition with the gallery. Using windows as a symbol of freedom and perspective, this immersive exhibition celebrates Macdonald’s multidisciplinary practice, comprising of mural and stage set constructions and music, alongside her intricately layered paintings on canvas.

Alice Macdonald paints at the threshold. Her canvases return to the charged moment of looking out: from the kitchen sink, or through the window grid, catching sight of a barn owl caught mid-flight in the blue dark beyond the glass or a pair of birds banking over a field. 'Every Window is a Holiday' brings together new paintings alongside painted screens set free-standing in the gallery, which you can walk around and through. On one face, kites above a Van Gogh field; on the other, a fruit-heavy tree and someone tidying the garden. It's a door that goes nowhere, stripped of its wall and its frame and its destination, until only the gesture of crossing over remains. Macdonald's paintings work the same way, sitting at the boundary between autobiography and fiction, never quite resolving the question of which side you're standing on. The floral mural she is painting directly onto the gallery walls has already made the countryside a room.