Theresa Anne-Mackintosh

20 September 2022

Theresa-Anne Mackintosh (b. 1968 – Pretoria, South Africa) obtained her MA in Fine Art (1995) from the University of Pretoria. 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 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. Mackintosh’s representational renderings may on the surface appear to inhabit a naive, child-like aesthetic, but this stripped-down graphic sensibility carries a preverbal feeling that resonates deep within the viewer.