THERESA-ANNE MACKINTOSH
b. 1968 - Pretoria, SA
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, photography and other digital media. She currently lives and works in Pretoria.
Mackintosh develops her work from a position of quiet but intense subjectivity while remaining sensitive to the broader human condition. In the process, she has created a very distinct visual lexicon, giving shape to various personal situations, gestures and symbols in her paintings, drawings and sculptural works. Her representational renderings may on the surface appear to inhabit a naive, child-like aesthetic, but this stripped graphic sensibility carries a lugubrious, pre-verbal resonance that is almost untranslatable. This, in turn, is often offset by a stealthy deployment of text that exhibits her uncanny knack of the one-liner, a textual turn of phrase that strikes a primal nerve.
Selected Solo & Duo Exhibitions
2023 The Topographies of Healing - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2019 I Can Hear A Lull - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2010 The Young Ones - Gallery MOMO, Johannesburg, RSA
2006 If you say so - Standard Bank Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 X - A Decade of Kalashnikovv Gallery, Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2023 All That She Carried, Latitudes Centre for the Arts, Johannesburg, RSA
2021 Hello And Goodbye - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Cape Town, RSA
2019 FORMS’ - Kalashnikovv Gallery, Johannesburg, RSA
2004 Jackie The Kid - KZNSA Gallery, Durban, RSA
Art Fairs & Festivals
Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium: 2024
Untitled Miami Art Fair, Miami Beach, USA: 2023
Contemporary Istanbul, Istanbul, TUR: 2023
RMB Latitudes Art Fair, Johannesburg, RSA: 2023
Investec Cape Town Art Fair, Cape Town, RSA: 2024 / 2023 / 2022 / 2021 / 2019 / 2018
FNB Joburg Art Fair, Johannesburg, RSA: 2023 / 2020 / 2019 / 2018
African Art Galleries Now Art Fair with A.A.G.A and Artsy Online: 2022
1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair, London, GBR: 2023 / 2021 / 2019
Selected Collections
Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria, RSA
MTN Art Collection, Johannesburg, RSA
Sasol Art Collection, Johannesburg, RSA
Hollard Insurance Art Collection, Johannesburg, RSA
Wendy Fisher Private Collection, New York, USA