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Chrissie Macdonald designs and makes bespoke stained glass pieces using traditional techniques and exploring new ones, as well as working with a variety of materials to create playful, handcrafted, sculptural pieces for illustration, installation, exhibition and events. She has regularly collaborated with photographers, designers and members of the multidisciplinary studio Peepshow Collective of which she is co-founder. These joint projects include creative workshops at the V&A and Somerset House which explore printmaking, collage, drawing, animation, costume, model-making and celebrity vegetables.
Chrissie works both individually and collaboratively with illustrator Andrew Rae. Together they have staged various live drawing and music events called Heavy Pencil, inviting other illustrators, musicians, costume and set designers to take part.
They are currently collaborationg with a textile designer, a furniture designer and their own children to create stained glass and mixed media pieces, installation, costume, music and performance.
Selected clients: New York Times, Newsweek, TIME, Creative Review, The Guardian, Selfridges, Museum of Childhood (Young V&A), Somerset House, Royal London Hospital, UCLH, The Finnish Institute, The House of Fairytales and the V&A.
