EMMA MCINTYRE
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Emma McIntyre is a New Zealand artist primarily working in painting.
McIntyre is the recent recipient of a Fullbright Graduate Award and is currently completing a Masters of Fine Arts specialising in contemporary painting at ArtCenter College of Design in Los Angeles (USA). McIntyre graduated with Bachelor of Visual Arts from AUT University in 2011 and a Masters of Fine Arts from Elam School of Fine Arts, the University of Auckland in 2016. In her practice, McIntyre's utilises simple shapes, patterns, marks, and motifs build into complex surfaces imbued with spatial and psychological depth. Multiple layers of texture and colour, see the disintegration of rigidity, and a slow reveal of something far more fluid, and full of disruptive potential. McIntyre was awarded the Auckland Print Studio Award in 2018. During her residency, she has completed a suite of multi-layered lithographic monoprints. The process of production was an experimental merging of McIntyre's painterly approach with the process of lithography. She embraced the uncertainty (innate to the printmaking process) to produce a highly successful body of work that feels unrestrained and innovative. McIntyre has exhibited regularly at artist-run spaces since 2015, including in A Trip to the Beach, Play Station, Wellington (2017); Grid/Colour/Plane, Malcolm Smith, Auckland (2017); and Painting: A Transitive Space, ST Paul St Gallery Three, Auckland (2016). McIntyre's first major solo exhibition, Pink Square Sways, took place at Hopkinson Mossman, Auckland in November 2017. McIntyre also exhibited with Hopkins and Mossman at Auckland Art Fair in 2018. She is represented by Hopkins and Mossman Gallery in Wellington, New Zealand. | |||
