Mary McIntyre
Rocks, Forest, Descending
May 08th – May 29th 2009
Private View: Thursday 7th May 6-8pm
the third space is pleased to present a new series of large scale photographic works by Mary McIntyre. In this exhibition McIntyre continues to explore our relationship with nature, landscape and its historical and contemporary depiction in art. Her photographic practice is concerned with the traditions of European landscape painting, and the philosophies which informed it.
McIntyre’s work acknowledges that our ways of ‘seeing’ the landscape are conditioned through our knowledge of its historical depictions in painting and that both painting and photography not only portray but also construct ‘the landscape’.
McIntyre’s landscapes are not traditional rural idylls, instead she depicts vistas that are in themselves constructed and manmade, the gardens and parks of Ireland and Britian, places that have long been associated with the picturesque.
McIntyre’s work draws upon allegorical references to create layers of meaning. Her seasonal depictions of the landscape embody elemental forces such as life, death, growth and decay.
Mary McIntyre’s exhibition is supported by
For information and additional images please contact; Hugh Mulholland on 0044 (0) 2890 237757 or hugh@thethirdspacegallery.com
the third space, suite 11&12, Scottish Mutual Building,16 Donegall Square South, Belfast BT1 5JA
Gallery Opening Hours – Monday – Friday 11am – 5pm, Closed 1pm – 2pm, Saturday by Appointment
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