Artist with a special interest in theatrical presentations. Born in Edinburgh, he studied at Dundee College of Art, 1978–82, with a postgraduate year at Patrick Allan-Fraser School of Art, Hospitalfield, Arbroath. In 1983 he studied papermaking at Laurence Barker Paper Workshop in Barcelona. Among his several awards were the RSA Guthrie Award and the Greenshields Award, both in 1983. McIntyre took up a number of themes in his work, such as the Arbroath fishing industry and male pretensions and vanities. He was visual director of the Communicado Theatre Company’s Jock Tamson’s Bairns Project, 1989–90. He participated in a series of influential group shows, including The Vigorous Imagination, at Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, 1987.