As a professional artist, Tracy McBride holds an MA in Painting from the Royal College of Art, an MA in Fine Art from Falmouth University, and a Post Graduate Diploma in Fine Art from RCA.
Tracy is currently shortlisted for the prestigious John Ruskin Prize 2026 and she was also shortlisted for the Valerie Beston Award, selected by an external panel from the RCA 2025 MA Painting degree show.
As an ecofeminist artist, McBride’s work is profoundly influenced by the natural world, humanity’s relationship to it, and to one another. By using observations of changes to landscapes over time as metaphor, McBride challenges patriarchal narratives that portray extractive and exploitative activities as ‘progress’, thus reflecting also, on her own experiences as a woman in a leadership position in a career in business.
McBride’s paintings move through representation to abstraction; and experimentation as key to her process: “I encourage materials to settle into place through their own agency, to channel the inherent nature of the medium, rather than consciously direct it, so that the act of ‘painting’ itself reveals the narrative theme.” McBride’s final works are often ambiguous in scale and can be perceived on both a macro and micro level, across the planes of her surfaces.
McBride has exhibited in London and Cambridge and her paintings are currently held in private collections.