Dr Alasdair Macintyre

Alasdair Macintyre is a practising artist and a graduate of the Queensland College of Art (BA) and the Australian Catholic University (Hons, Dip Ed). He has had over a dozen solo exhibitions in Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne and his artwork is in numerous private and public collections. He is listed in the bible of Australian art, McCulloch's Encyclopedia of Australian Art and has been a finalist in the Wynne Prize, and the Archibald Prize Salon de Refuses at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, and the National Sculpture Prize, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra. He was also the subject of a feature documentary for ABC TV ARTS program Artscape, Artists at Work in 2009.

He recently completed his PhD concentrating on Derrida's theory of Hauntology in relation to the creative process of the artist.