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| Andy McIntosh |
| BA (Hons) Edinburgh College of Art |
| For some 20 years, Andy McIntosh has worked in the graphics industry producing commercial designs for web, film and TV. Over the years McIntosh also exhibited his traditional landscape paintings but craved the exploration of new materials and medium. His inspiration same from the tangled decay of a scrap yard. |
| "I am a painter and I nail my pictures together." Kurt Schwitters, 1926 |
| McIntosh discovered that assembling found urban materials, each having a history of their own, gave his work an added dimension; a subtlety or impact as powerful as the sharpest design or most skillful brush stroke. |
| Marcel Duchamp is widely believed to be the originator of the use of 'found' or 'readymade' art in the early 20th-century. He used modified and unmodified objects in his work that at the time were not normally considered to be art.. |
| McIntosh has been interested in this approach to art since studying as the ECA but in today's recycling and renewable climate, it has a particular relevance and resonance. |
| His current work is an exploration of 'readymade' from a 21st century perspective. It features materials found in scrap yards and skips that are assembled and presented in a way that encourages the onlooker to think about them in a completely different way. View the work. |
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