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Decaf Honey

Ally McIntyre

Jealous East

02 Nov 2017 — 19 Nov 2017

Ally McIntyre returns to London shores with ‘Decaf Honey’, marking a new departure in the young artists work. After three sell-out solo shows with Jealous, Ally returns to Jealous East with new paintings and an exclusive screenprint edition, created in Jealous Print Studios.

“I have a neglected spider plant in the studio that has survived with little water, under fluorescent lighting for months. I understand this natural phenomenon makes rational sense, but to me the spider plant thriving in a hostile environment became a strange testament to resiliency. I mindlessly and cathartically began to paint the spider plant and took delight in the exercise of painting this subject. That was the conception of my upcoming show ‘Decaf Honey’. The body of work that succeeded is about how all things grow; examining the strength that lies in resiliency and determinism.'

"The plant becomes a silent but admirable subject existing symbiotically with humans, sustaining us, as we sustain them, without them we die."

Ally McIntyre

Ally McIntyre

McIntyre's artworks vividly trace a journey of experimentation and growing maturity, as seen through McIntyre’s changing concerns, to mark marking and narratives.
Ally McIntyre is a painter in the truest sense of the word. Having graduated from Goldsmiths with an MFA in Fine Art in 2015, Ally McIntyre’s practice focuses on large, unapologetic works, with a personal narrative which is as complex as it is playful.
Bold and assertive, McIntyre’s work also questions the prevalent association of large-scale art with the male artist.
Her work is placed in many public and private collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum Permanent Print Collection(moon cries), where her Jealous Prize winning screenprint ‘Ferdinand’ joins the growing archive of Jealous Prize winner’s prints.