The Prophets
Julie McIntyre's

Personal Stories

Pioneers

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The Warriors


The Artists


The Martyrs
We turn to heroes, particularly at difficult periods in our lives to fulfill a profound human need: to penetrate the darkness by way of perception itself. Their integrity, independence, strength of character and conviction to confront whatever darkness they find in themselves and the world are embodied in their heroic acts of faith. It is always far more than “just a story.” Stories bring reality to an imagined world and imagination to reality, just as our heroes’ courageous feats serve us with models, and stir us with the ambition to act on our dreams. Stories that touch us become personal memories and as the years shape our recollections, details blur, but waves of images remain. The approach to creating Personal Stories attempts to echo the memoryscape, by piling associated image over image, texture over atmosphere, mood over colour and shapes over lines.

 

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Sacred Circle

 

The Context

 

The Artists

 

The Warriors

 At first you are captured by the sheer presence of the prints because of their size and intense use of colour. Initially I found this intimidating until I tuned into the rhythm the artist had established within the structure of the series. The dominant motif resonates with a number of images which are repeated throughout the prints in the exhibition. Once I had overcome being awestruck, I saw that the artist was actually very clear in guiding us. Her titling is very straightforward, and the manner in which the work is hung is also very purposeful. The main theme is introduced with a context surrounded by four other perspectives. The viewer must take the time to peel back the levels so carefully laid down by the artist. There are many connections to be made here as the symbols appear again and again but in the guise of different colours or positioning.
Gail Noonan, MPA’s 1993 Exhibition Catalogue Essay, March 1994

 

The Martyrs

 As Prophet

 

 

J’eanne D’Arc  The Context
  As Warrior
 As Artist McIntyre has a clear insight into the healing effects of art. In her Joan D’Arc book she wrote of her discovery of “the power of art to cross boundaries and move toward a universal language.” Julie McIntyre successfully captured that language in her exhibition, expressing herself well in multi-media form.
Regina Coupar, Visual Art News, Winter 1993
  As Martyr

 

 

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Personal Stories


Don Quixote

  
   In a world of instant information rendered down to superficial sound bites and sensational images, the work of Julie McIntyre poses a grave threat. We must look and look again in order to probe the many levels in the Personal Stories series. These prints are demanding because we are driven to not only respond to the lush imagery but to think (and think some more) about the meaning.
Gail Noonan, MPA’s 1993 Exhibition Catalogue Essay, March 1994
  

 

As Prophet

 

Julie McIntyre’s

Personal Stories


The Little Mermaid

The Context

 

As Warrior

 

As Artist

 On each work she has printed the basic elements of her starting point, the context, sometimes using each element two or three times, often changing the orientation of the image with each change of idea or colour. Eventually, after ten, twenty, thirty colours, she arrives at an image that pulls together the many threads of memory, history and literary allusion that for her make up the meaning of the work.
Marie Koehler, Personal Stories Catalogue, 1992

 

As Martyr

 

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Julie McIntyre’s

Personal Stories


World War II

The Context

 

The Warriors

 

The Artists

 Time becomes a sculptural dimension, the accretion of layer upon layer of ink plus the texture of the woodblock relief. The texture is the physical expression of time passed, time spent, time experienced.

Marie Koehler, Personal Stories Exhibition Catalogue, 1992

 

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