Galleries 2 & 3
The Edge of Things is a major solo exhibition by artist David Mackintosh featuring a selection of new and recent work.
Mackintosh’s practice centres around drawing; for more than a decade Mackintosh has been creating deceptively simple drawings that reveal a world that is both mundane and macabre exploring ideas of dislocation, isolation and indecision. Images of sex and death – a dismembered head, a warship, a naked torso sit alongside depictions of everyday life – a man walking his dog, a flock of birds. His work presents a dark and unsettling world view, but one which is permeated throughout by humour.
The Edge of Things will showcase some of Mackintosh’s most recent work, revealing the development of his practice into time based and installation mediums that explore the relationship between drawing, animation and sculpture, and exploring a growing concern with narrative.
The exhibition includes: a large-scale wall painting The Woods, a new stop-frame animation which brings Mackintosh’s surreal drawings to life, and a free-standing sculptural structure that houses a new body of works on paper, alongside a selection of his signature style drawings.