Rod McIntosh BA

I trained as a sculptor and worked nationally creating work for health care environments, education and community-based residencies and for exhibition internationally.

My present practice is a work in progress. A transition from figurative work with a medico-anthropological starting point to works of minimal subject other than material, processes and an exploration of a visual language.

Works on paper exploring a language of marks, an interest in repetition and practice akin to a memory of practicing lines of ‘joined up writing’ on lined paper. What happens in pursuit of perfection, tiredness? Boredom? Accident or sabotage?

Materials and process intrigue me, whilst I like to control, I also call upon a desire to surrender to chance; a ‘what if?’ scenario. There is a space between mess and clarity that attracts me to explore and push either way.

Paintings are more like drawings with paint upon a fine treated surface.   I prepare my own stretchers and boards with French linen and gesso. Traditional painterly materials though a sculptural subversion occurs as I coat and sand and coat and sand and repeat.

These continue an obsession or exploration with the possibility of marks. With the durability of a carefully prepared surface, the potential of the materials and marks boundaries to collide and blur are pushed. Thrilling in simplicity and rich with suggestions; landscape, figurative, narrative or not?

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PLEASE NOTE: Due to unforeseeable circumstances, this studio will NOT be open on Friday 18th June as advertised in the guide. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused.
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Dawlton Barn, Whatsole Street, Elmsted, Ashford, Kent, TN25 5JW

Directions:

At the church of St James in Elmsted head south passing a red post box on the left. Follow the road for 0.5mile to a white boarded barn. Park in drive.

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