Rod McIntosh

Born: UK, 1968.  Based in London and Kent

Sheffield City Polytechnic (BA Hons Fine Art , 1992)

Rod McIntosh is an artist with his studio in the midst of the English countryside of rural Kent. He works between Kent and London as an exhibiting artist and is represented by several galleries and consultants working together to build a national and international profile for his work.

He studied figurative sculpture in Sheffield, graduating in 1992. He maintained a dynamic practice alongside a successful Arts Management and academic career until 2009. When he returned full-time to the studio.

His current work as a mark-maker lies within the tradition of drawing. With his body, the breath along with materials, and repetitive often-obsessive processes, focuses an attention to the present. Observing and recording the moment of creation within a continuum.

He speaks of them as;

“Physical meditations, that offers himself, and the viewer, a moment to pause.”

EDUCATION

1988-1992 BA (Hons) Fine Art – Sculpture, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Psalter Lane, Sheffield

RESIDENCIES / AWARDS

2016 Selected for The National Open Art Competition.  

2015/16 Pure Arts Group, selected as one of the artists to be represented throughout the year.

2015 The People’s Choice Award for ‘Thirty for Thirty’, selected as one of 30 artists to work on a competition run by Buro4, Project Management Design and Management Company. Working with a Foster + Partners building.

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2017 Affordable Art Fair Brussels, represented By Bristol Contemporary Art

2017 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, represented by Caiger Contemporary Art

2017 Affordable Art Fair New York, represented by Caiger Contemporary Art

2017 The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London

2016 Free Painters & Sculptors Open Exhibition, Menier Gallery, London

2016 The Other Art Fair presented by Saatchi Art, Trumam Brewery, London

2016 Selected for National Open Arts Competition Exhibition, Mercers’ Hall, London

2016 Pure Arts Award Exhibition, Battle

2016 Accessible Art Fair, Jewish Museum, Brussels

2016 Affordable Art Fair Hampstead, represented by Caiger Contemporary Art

2016 Solo Show at Le Meridien Hotel, Piccadilly, London

2016 Selected for The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, Bloomsbury, London

2016 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, represented by Caiger Contemporary Art

2016 Affordable Art Fair Brussels, represented By Bristol Contemporary Art

2015 Free Painters & Sculptors Open Exhibition 2015, Menier Gallery, London

2015 Pure Arts Award Exhibtion, Battle

2015 Selected for the 10th Edition of The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London

2015 Affordable Art Fair Bristol represented by Bristol Contemporary Art

2015 ‘When Opposites Attract’ a two person show at Oil & Water Gallery, Wandsworth, London presented by Caiger Contemporary Art

2015 ‘Thirty for Thirty’ group exhibition at The National Theatre, London to coincide with the publication of the book to accompany the project.

2015 ‘In Conversation’ a curated group show with NOHO Artists, 7Dials Club, Covent Garden London.

2015 Open Studios, Kent

2015 SEEArt Fair, exhibiting as NOHO Artists. Tunbridge Wells

2015 Selected for The Other Art Fair, Arnolfini, Bristol

2015  Selected for The Other Art Fair, Victoria House, Bloomsbury, London

2015 Affordable Art Fair Battersea & Hampstead, represented by Caiger Contemporary Art

2015 Affordable Art Fair Brussels, represented By Bristol Contemporary Art

2014 Selected for The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane London

2014 SEEArt Fair, exhibiting as NOHO Artists. Tunbridge Wells

2014 Selected for The Other Art Fair, Ambika P3, Marylebone

2013 Selected for The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, Brick Lane London

2013 Corporate solo show in Deeson Creative, Canterbury

2012 NOHO Artists, London

2012 Open Studio, Kent

2011 ‘The Optimist’, Brick Lane Gallery, London – Selected show

2011 ‘@home’, Soho, London – Solo show

2011 Palace Art Fair, London – Awarded ‘Best In Show’ Prize

PRESS / PUBLICATIONS

Negotiating a Better Rate of Pay – an, The Artists Information Company

Quality on a Budget – an, The Artists Information Company

On The Wall – an, The Artists Information Company

TEACHING AND WORK EX

2014 Facilitator and Trainer in Professional Practice, Creative Career/Business Planning for Kent Creative Live

2009-2014 Consultant Trainer on Creative Connections formerly Creative Partnerships, Royal Opera House

2009-2012 Chairman, South East Open Studios, www.seos-art.org

2007-2009 Programme Leader, Continuing Professional Development Framework, University Of Hertfordshire

2004-2007 Programme Tutor, BA Fine Art, MA Fine Art &Design, Applied Arts and PGCert Business and Digital Skills for Artists, University Of Hertfordshire

2004-2006 Artist Consultant, EAT (Essential Artists Training) Commissions East, Cambridge

2005-2006 Mentor, “Artists Mean Business 2”, Digswell Arts Trust, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

2002-2003 Mentor, “Artists Mean Business”, Digswell Arts Trust, Stevenage, Hertfordshire

2001-2007 Lecturer, (Sessional), London Business School, Regents Park, London.

1997-2004 Director , Florence Trust Studios, St Saviours’, Aberdeen Park, London

1995-1997 Projects & Workshop Development Worker , Oxford House, Derbyshire Street, London

1993-1995 Artist with the Education & Community Department, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire

1991-1997 Freelance Artist Educator/Community Artist