Menagerie (08 - 26 November 2007) is Theresa-Anne Mackintosh's most recent solo exhibition, comprising sculpture and digitally printed media. 

The works take as point of departure the notion of a nuclear unit. In this case, a family of characters constitute a nucleus of sorts: Tiger, Tim, Budgie, Sugar and Lamb. This close-knit cast is featured throughout the exhibition, and is joined by other animals and people. In this way, their roles as go-betweens from the worlds of fantasy, childhood, adulthood and the domestic space, are revealed.

By weaving these different worlds together, Mackintosh reflects on the private emotional states that operate across them all, and govern our interactions with other people. The notion of the "private" comes to the fore in this exhibition, as it affirms that there remains an intractable mystery at the heart of any human interaction - the foreignness of anyone else's "inner world".

"What interests me is the idea that the human experience, the human condition, of experiencing joy, heartache, crisis, ecstasy, love, rejection is a democratic universal phenomenon. It is a widespread global occurrence of which no one is exempt. That is a humbling and sensitive realisation. My work explores these empathetic themes."