Mandy McIntosh is an artist from Glasgow, brought up in the North East of the city where she has now also worked over the last five consecutive years . Her work is notably inter-disciplinary and usually located among people who live in housing schemes and peripheral places. Sitting beyond notions of inclusion and social practice her work tends towards more long-termist and counter cultural assemblages made with people she works with over time. As well as working in Springburn long term, another place McIntosh has working links with is Ferguslie Park. Several projects were located in the scheme and in 2019, Fegs Urny Mugs was acquired by Glasgow Museums for the city collection, a project featuring mugs stamped with vernacular iconography and local opinions in relation to Ferguslie. This work features in Domestic Bliss at Goma.

On graduation from BA Honours Knitwear Design at Trent Polytechnic in 1989, she was employed as a studio knitwear designer with KENZO in Paris where she worked for two years. Returning to take up a Masters at Glasgow School of Art, she graduated in 1994 and moved to Galway in Ireland where she made her first short film. Her moving image and digitally interactive work has been broadcast and screened nationally and internationally, in 2004 her collaborative project, Weightless Animals, was awarded a BAFTA. The significance of these early films is marked by a recent screening of In an Empty, a Channel Four commission from 1997 which was screened at Cinema Despite, Tramway 2023. A film made over a year shot by a family in Saltcoats “Fair Creature” (2004) was ascended into the British Art Network Uncanon in 2022.

New work was commissioned in 2023 by Gallery of Modern Art in Glasgow and McIntosh used this opportunity in a show entitled REPEAT PATTERNS, to contextualise over five years of community based work from Springburn in North East Glasgow.She specifically profiles the harm suffered in a post industrial working class area of the city caused by historical and current planning decisions impacting roads, housing and green space. In this new work, using printmaking and sculpture, McIntosh offers condition reports of artefacts which exist in the area from the Victorian era to now, surviving as an embodiment of this civic negligence.

Previously McIntosh has worked as an artist within the NHS creatively addressing mental health within acute and community settings. Organisations, festivals and galleries she has shown with include Arnolfini, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Digital Dumbo NYC, Hors Post Centre de Georges Pompidou, LUX @Whitechapel, Hospitalfield, Picture This, Sheffield Documentary Festival, Channel Four, Bradford Animation Festival, Animate UK and others, as well as showing work widely within community spaces.

Writing commissions include articles for ART UK, and a forthcoming edition of Dowser in tandem with Joey Simmons. Mandy McIntosh is also a PhD candidate at Glasgow School of Art.