Theresa-Anne Mackintosh

°1968, South Africa
Lives and works in Pretoria, South Africa.

Theresa-Anne Mackintosh obtained her BA in Fine Art (1990) and her MA in Fine Art (1995) from the University of Pretoria, majoring in painting. Shortly after her studies, she began to explore her keen interest in animation, adding this to a broad platform of artistic practice that includes painting, drawing, sculpture, and other digital media.

Mackintosh has had ten solo exhibitions to date and has participated in numerous institutional group exhibitions in South Africa. In 2008 she was awarded a grant to attend the European Ceramic Work Centre Residency, Hertogenbosch, Netherlands which has informed her practice as a sculptor since. Mackintosh’s work has been widely collected by many of the country’s most prominent private and corporate collections.

Mackintosh develops her work from a position of quiet but intense subjectivity, primarily focused on the anthropomorphic figure, the underlying functions of the physical body and collective human experience. Mackintosh’s graphic sensibility is underpinned by a desire to strip recognisable forms down to their core, exposing the emotional and primal characteristics of her subjects.