Margaret McIntosh

Margaret McIntosh lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne. She is a contemporary artist known for her evocative, nostalgic oil paintings that transform the mundane details of everyday Australian suburbia into sites of deep intrigue

Margaret holds a Masters in Art Therapy from La Trobe University, and she blends a sharp painterly eye with a deep psychological understanding of how humans connect to the spaces they inhabit.

Margaret likes being inside other people’s houses and having a look at their things. The allure of being privy to displays of prized belongings and initiate glimpses into the settings of their daily lives.

As visitors we are invited to move through hallways, living rooms and kitchen spaces. Moving through these spaces, we fabricate our own understanding of what we see, how rooms and objects are used when we’re not there, why particular objects are given special place on a mantelpiece. What we don’t see has its own intrigue; what lies behind closed doors, what’s stocked in the refrigerator or crammed into the third drawer down?

In 2024, she was awarded the Becker Minty Award in the Paddington Art Prize.

Margaret has participated in several artist residencies across Australia and internationally, contributing to the development of her studio-based practice.

'PLACKY BAGS' SOLO EXHIBITION (AUG - SEP 2025)
'THROUGH MY EYES' GROUP EXHIBITION (NOV 2023)
'GRAVEL RASH' SOLO EXHIBITION (JUNE 2023)
'MONOCHROME' GROUP EXHIBITION (MAY 2022)
'TWENTY' GROUP EXHIBITION (NOV - DEC 2021)