Emerging Artists

Ally McIntyre

2022

  • Visual Arts
  • Edmonton

McIntyre creates bold, powerful paintings that combine passages of abstraction with naturalistic imagery, and which contain moments of aggressive and expressive mark making, alongside more introspective, sensitive passages of drawing. This blending of visual languages results in highly compelling imagery that fosters unexpected narratives and poetic associations for viewers.

– Emerging Artist adjudicators

Ally McIntyre’s practice is focused on large, unapologetic paintings that feature a complex yet playful narrative. Bold and assertive, her works question the prevailing gendered association of large-scale art and expressionism. Her artistic development as a painter has traced her journey of experimentation and mark marking. Earlier works have themes of exploitation and destruction, with later works having themes of survival and growth. In 2015, McIntyre was awarded the HIX Award 2015 presented by Tracey Emin and the Jealous Prize 2015. Exhibits include various galleries in London, UK, The Original Print Fair at the Royal Academy, The London Art Fair, Start Art Fair and Art Toronto. In 2018, she was a finalist in the RBC’s national painting competition. McIntyre was featured in ‘Right Here, Right Now’ at London, UK’s Saatchi Gallery in 2021, and with her solo exhibition ‘Dog Day Circus’ in 2022, also at Saatchi Gallery. Her work can be found in private collections in Australia, Asia, Europe, and North America, as well as institutions, such as London’s Victoria and Albert Museum Permanent Print Collection.

  • Robespierre, Acrylic, glitter, spray paint on raw linen 155cm x 200cm
  • Goldsmiths MFA Degree Show 2015
  • Dethroned, Acrylic, glitter, spray paint on raw linen 140cm x 152cm
  • 2022 – Solo Exhibition at Saatchi Gallery

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