Anne MacDonald is an Australian photo media artist based in Lutruwita (Tasmania).

Working primarily in the studio with a large-format camera, she creates series and installations by arranging and photographing subjects including flowers, drapery, funerary ornaments, wedding cakes, children’s toys, and party decorations.

Her work traverses the Vanitas still life genre, extending historical approaches by exploring the symbolic potential of objects within a contemporary cultural context. Photographic still life builds on the long history of Vanitas imagery in art and adds the photograph's association as memento mori. Photography has a unique connection with still life and death through its ability to arrest time and literally freeze life. It also contains a realisation of loss by recording a past moment that no longer exists. Anne MacDonald draws on these associations to create elegiac metaphors for the ephemerality and mutability of existence.