McIntyre was a figure who very much stood at the divide between late modernism and postmodernism. Bred on an appetite for cinematic montage meshed with an obsessive regard for figurative abstraction, McIntyre consistently embraced the body and sexuality in cut and paste arrangements that curiously sidestepped the emerging high theory affectations of 1980s postmodernism.

As singular as his vision was, McIntyre was very much influenced by Picasso, and Australian peers such as Robert Klippel, John Olson, George Finey and David Strachan. During the 1970s and 80s, critics such as Elwyn Lynn and Nancy Borlase regularly championed his work.

Educated at the National Art School (1963-66) McIntyre exhibited his illustrations, collages and paintings at many galleries nationwide including Holdsworth Galleries, Mori Gallery, Hogarth Galleries, Tolarno Galleries, Coventry Gallery and Tin Sheds.

James Mollison, former director of the National Gallery of Australia and National Gallery of Victoria has said that ‘McIntyre absorbed everything that Sydney had to offer over the past 40 years’ and was ‘heir of a long line of Sydney painters, people from Ian Fairweather through John Olsen’.

The National Gallery of Australia has over 100 of his works in their collection and he is represented in the collections of Art Gallery of NSW, Queensland Art Gallery, National Gallery of Victoria, the Power Collection at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Artbank and in more than 50 regional gallery, university and corporate collections.

This survey will present works loaned from these institutions as well as private collections and work held in his estate.

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