Biography

“Hope” is the thing with feathers
Solo Exhibition ~ Grainger Gallery
Opening April 18 2024

“Hope” is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul
And sings the tune without the words
And never stops - at all

And sweetest - in the Gale - is heard
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little Bird
That kept so many warm

I’ve heard it in the chillest land -
And on the strangest Sea -
Yet - never - in Extremity,
It asked a crumb - of me.


BY EMILY DICKINSON (1861)


Kirsty McIntyre is a Melbourne based artist working mainly with palette knife and oil paint on
canvas, with Australian themed still life subjects, and the native birds that visit her outdoor
compositions. Described in a review by Peter Haynes in the Canberra Times on 4/11/22;
“McIntyre’s use of pattern is beautifully controlled. The artist’s use of an intense light suffuses
the overall composition allowing each element to be clearly delineated and hold pictorial
autonomy. Light also imbues a sense of McIntyre's capturing a moment in time. The
beautifully random compositions filled with freely dispersed floral and other objects have a
sense of delicate movement, of the transitoriness of nature and of the innate beauty in that
transitoriness.”
Initially self-taught she has since had private tuition and workshops with artists, Ron
Reynolds, Richard Claremont, Jenie Fawkner, Nicholas Chen, Land Dauberman and
international artists, Ed Praybe, Susan Lichtman, Jennifer Poichinski and Catherine Kehoe.
Kirsty has her third solo exhibition planned at Grainger gallery, ACT in April 2024.

Solo exhibitions;
April 2024; Grainger gallery ACT; “Hope is the thing with feathers”
March 2023; Satch and co gallery, Holbrook NSW “Birds of a feather”
August 2022; The Moree Gallery, NSW; "A Table Shared"
Group Exhibition History (also see prize finalist exhibitions below);
March 2024; The Moree Gallery “Birds of a feather”
September 2023; Grainger gallery, ACT; “Spring Jardin-Falling Flowers”
August 2023; Melbourne affordable art fair with Bluethumb online art gallery
June 2023, Sydney affordable art fair with Martine gallery
July 2023; Weswal gallery, NSW “Bloom”
October 2022; Grainger gallery, ACT;  "Together Alone" joint exhibition with artist, Jane
Aliendi
February 2022; Grainger gallery, ACT; "A Painted Table"
July 2021; Weswal gallery, NSW; "Bloom"
May 2021; The Moree Gallery, NSW; "An Easel by the Door"
February 2019; Victorian artists society, Melbourne; “Four plus one”