Clementine Belle McIntosh is an emerging rural artist based in Gilgandra, home to the Wiradjuri, Kamilaroi and Wailwan traditional owners.
Within a process based practice, McIntosh uses site specific materials and methods to convey her experiences within the ecologies of an environment. Through a conscious choice of sustainable materials and practices, she aims to limit the negative impact the artworks creation and destruction has upon the micro and macro environmental systems she works within.
By working in plein air and engaging within a phenological perspective, McIntosh lays the foundation for site specific processes to occur in the outdoors. This includes burying, shooting, soaking or suspending the work within its particular place of making, allowing the natural cycles of erosion and time to marinate the work. This cementing of site and work creates a unity which allows a contextual home to be established. Often the works are left in a state of incompletion as a result of these processes, paying homage to the rusticity of McIntosh’s rural happenings.
Curriculum Vitae
1999 – Born in Dubbo, NSW
Works between Gilgandra and Sydney, Australia
EDUCATION
Bachelor of Fine Arts, National Art School, Sydney
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Canvas Works, Eden and the Willow, Sydney, Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
National Art School Graduate Exhibition, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
Silent Auction for Djab Wurrung, Monster Mouse Studios, Sydney, Australia
Artist Support Black Lives Matter: Silent Auction, 321 Crown Projects, Sydney, Australia
Margaret Olley Drawing Week Exhibition, 2020, Rayner Hoff Project Space, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
Australia Burns, Goodspace Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Landscape Exhibition, Rayner Hoff Project Space, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
Cowboys Die Too, Goodspace Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Margaret Olley Drawing Week Exhibition, 2019, Rayner Hoff Project Space, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
1st Year Photomedia Exhibition, Rayner Hoff Project Space, National Art School, Sydney, Australia
Nagoya Sister City Art Exchange, Nagoya, Japan
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
John Olsen Prize for Drawing (Highly Commended)
Nominated for Jocelyn Maughan Sketch Book Prize
Nominated for Jocelyn Maughan Sketch Book Prize
Scholarship to attend Intensive High School Certificate Course, National Art School
The People’s Choice award, 100-year Commemoration of the Cooee March, Gilgandra Shire Council Cooee Art Gallery
Champion Exhibitor at the Gilgandra Art Show Competition
COLLECTIONS
Private Collections in Australia and the USA