About the artist.

Tianna McIntosh (b. 2001) is a practicing artist and recent graduate based in West Yorkshire, England. Working primarily in painting of the expanded form, her practice is firmly rooted in the process of automatic drawing.

Inspired by Surrealist sentiment, she veers away from figuration and tangible subject matter, beginning each piece with no premeditation, being influenced solely by instinct, affect and a compulsive fascination with the exploration of automated processes.

Held central to her way of practicing is a belief in the art-making process being a playful, inherently revelatory one. Through her dense, sporadic, and idiosyncratic mark making and her play with stream-of-consciousness text she is able to retrospectively examine and identify her anxieties, concerns, fixations, and preoccupations which all bear subconscious influence over the form and nature of her line.

Tianna has frequently exhibited work in and around Leeds over the duration of her degree, having shown work at East Street Arts, Serf, Distrikt Bar, and Hyde Park Book Club among other locations. In 2023 she was nominated on behalf of the University of Leeds for the national Freelands Painting Prize.

When she is not painting, drawing, or print-making she likes to spend her time scouring charity shops for compact discs and making jewellery for herself and her loved ones.

You can keep up with Tianna's work by following her Instagram.