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Manchester’s Cornerhouse Features a Selection of Recent Work by David Mackintosh

MANCHESTER.- The Edge of Things is a major solo exhibition by artist David Mackintosh featuring a selection of new and recent work. Mackintosh’s practice centres around drawing; for more than a decade Mackintosh has been creating deceptively simple drawings that reveal a world that is both mundane and macabre exploring ideas of dislocation, isolation and indecision. Images of sex and death – a dismembered head, a warship, a naked torso sit alongside depictions of everyday life – a man walking his dog, a flock of birds. His work presents a dark and unsettling world view, but one which is permeated throughout by humour. The Edge of Things will showcase