Lorna MacIntyre

This body of work give us sketches of the artist's ideas but is too fragmented to stand alone

Article by Morag Keil | 12 Mar 2007

Lorna MacIntyre's first solo show at Mary Mary Gallery is balanced along the
edge of the natural and the man-made, trying to decipher an amalgamation of the two. MacIntyre lives and works in Glasgow, but has exhibited widely throughout Europe. She is currently studying for her MFA at the Glasgow School of Art, and is represented by MaryMary Gallery and Galerie Kamm, Berlin. This show mixes 3D with 2D, abstract with figurative, natural with man-made and the accidental with the deliberate. Delicate structures are dotted around the gallery, mimicking the pockets of ideas and methods of thinking that an artist goes through. MacIntyre uses direct references to art history with images of Degas' dancers: these are part of a diverse range of source material and found objects that have been manipulated to represent the structures and links between ideas. There is a strong interest in balance and the aesthetics of the contorted body; MacIntyre takes these techniques and
applies them to the objects and themes she uses. The exhibitions takes on all of these structural and poetic ideas and delivers then in delicate pieces that seem too fragile to make a stance. The whimsical nature of some of the constructions fails to reinforce the ideas, which at times are complex and need a precise approach. This body of work give us sketches of the artist's ideas but is too fragmented to stand alone.

Mary Mary, Glasgow. This exhibition has now closed.