At APS Editions (2024) McIntosh worked with John Pusateri on the offset press to compose monoprints (using graphite and charcoal powder combined with printing ink) to show the embodiment of ‘the Void.’ Using deep black charcoal and dark silvery graphite, the prints show the shifting, unfixed quality of these materials and capture the fragility of human structures when confronted with unpredictable elemental forces.

Particulate and fluid matter move continuously and permeate our world. Rain falls and flows into streams; streams become rivers and run into the sea; seawater evaporates and descends again as rain. This rain nourishes trees that grow in the earth and eventually decay, feeding new seedlings. Matter has what Jane Bennett calls “vitality,”—an energy that ruptures from an event opening new possibilities and new relationships. Transitional Acts: Suspension and Materiality in the Event. Jill McIntosh, 2023.

At the end of September 2026, I returned to APS to work on a new series of works on paper. I explored placing graphite under pressure again, fascinated by the way the graphite powder naturally bled into 'rivers' on the surface of the ink. I reflected on the collotype technique taught to us by Barry Cleavin, where we used flats of colour and placed torn paper on each flat to create overlapping layers of shape and colour. Over this, I sprinkled the graphite powder and pushed it under the press. This gave great results.