About

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 natural world and how the moods of wonder and enchantment might act as a conduit for environmental reconnection. Recurring themes often consider the microscopic, cellular, unseen and overlooked.

Working through sculpture and installation, McIntosh crafts her preferred mediums of wool and glass into densely accumulated, ambiguous, monochromatic assemblages. She is curious about the ways in which art, science and nature can coalesce and draws influence from the drawings of early microscopists such as Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg and Ernst Haeckel.

Her work gives visibility to natures hidden wonders; enchanting and prompting consideration for the unseen, everyday and overlooked natural spaces around us.

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.