Fiona McIntosh is an emerging visual artist living and working on Peramangk country (Bukatilla/Hahndorf) in the Adelaide Hills of South Australia.

Her work explores the hidden beauty and complexity of the natural world, considering how moods of wonder and enchantment might act as conduits for environmental reconnection. Her practice reflects a sustained interest in the microscopic, the cellular, the unseen and overlooked — the quiet architectures and organic rhythms that shape life beyond the limits of our everyday perception.

Working primarily through sculpture and installation, McIntosh crafts her preferred medium of wool into densely accumulated, monochromatic forms and assemblages. Her quiet, meditative works gently draw together art and science, often referencing early naturalists and microscopists such as Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Ernst Haeckel. Through slow, tactile processes, she builds imagined realms that give visibility to nature’s hidden wonders — soft forms that beckon connection and invite discovery, contemplation, and care.

McIntosh completed her Bachelor of Visual Art at the Adelaide Central School of art in 2023 receiving the ‘Adelaide Central School of Art and Artlink Magazine Award’ for a high achieving student in Art History and Theory and the ‘NAVA Ignition Award’ for a high achieving student in Professional Studies.

She currently works from her home studio in Hahndorf located in the beautiful Adelaide Hills.