Lorna Macintyre

“Nature is an infinite space whose centre is everywhere, whose circumference is nowhere”

“ In all these stories we find roads that fork, corridors that lead nowhere, except to other corridors, and so on as far as the eye can see. For Borges this is an image of human thought, which endlessly makes its way through concatenations of causes and effects without ever exhausting infinity, and marvels over what is perhaps only inhuman chance.”

André Maurois, from an introduction to Jorge Luis Borges’ “Labyrinths; Selected Stories and Other Writings”

Mary Mary is proud to present a solo exhibition by Lorna Macintyre, her first at the gallery. Macintyre will present a new body of sculptural and photographic works relating to her dual interests in what can broadly be defined as ‘the man-made’ and ‘the natural.’ The man-made enters into the work under the guise of language, culture, industrial materials and architectural space while ‘the natural’ appears in the form of intuition, the human/natural form, gesture and the element of chance.

Macintyre’s practice is concerned with the space between these two spheres; how they overlap and interact. A vocabulary of materials and reference points create a visual language through which the artist is able to explore this liminal space, together and between the process of creating work and the final object.

There is an overriding interest in the personification of objects and in the symbolic possibilities of the mundane. Greek mythology, Degas dancers, break dancers, ice skaters and the poetry of Fernando Pessoa all become reference points in sculptural and photographic configurations which seek to capture or emphasise something human or real within them. As with Borges, Macintyre is concerned with the thought process itself and how this can be converted into a physical composition, which, in turn, relates to human shape and natural form, which Macintyre also constructs into a physical structure.

Like the sphere which appears in numerous guises throughout Macintyre’s practice, references and processes interplay in a continuous cycle throughout the work.

Lorna Macintyre