Clementine Belle McIntosh, 2023. Image courtesy of M16 Artspace.
Meet the Artist
Clementine Belle McIntosh is an emerging rural artist from Gilgandra NSW, the waterhole meeting place of the Wiradjuri, Wailwan and Kamilaroi peoples. Through collaborative methods in circular systems, McIntosh produces predominantly textile-based, site-responsive installations representing her learnt sense of place.
Her process-based practice focuses on the act of mark-making to record local dialogues, exchanges and relationships connecting herself with others (strangers and/or the nonhuman). After art display, McIntosh's works are returned to local nonlinear systems as they are composted in the garden, gifted to a neighbour or repurposed into usable objects. Underpinning this methodology is a departure from the mainstream art market and its problematic hierarchies of care ie. the tendency to preserve cultural artefacts produced from a place but not preserving the place itself.
Local Gifts, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.
Blanket in Place, 2022. Image courtesy of the artist.
Photo of artist studio at the KEPK art space in Yeerongpilly QLD, 2022. Image credit: Clementine Belle McIntosh
