Alasdair Macintyre is an artist and educator and a graduate of the Queensland College of Art (BA), Brisbane Institute of TAFE, and the Australian Catholic University (PhD, Hons, Dip Ed). He has had over a dozen solo exhibitions in commercial art galleries 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, 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. In 2012 he was the winner of the Sculpture section in Gladstone’s Martin Hanson Memorial Art He has been a finalist in the Gold Coast City Art Gallery (now HoTA) prize five times, with his work being acquired by the gallery in 2003. He was also the subject of a feature documentary for ABC TV ARTS program Artscape, Artists at Work in 2009. In 2016 he was a political commentator (visual art perspective) for ABC local radio in Brisbane and his large-scale solo exhibition The Adventures of Aecap toured multiple public galleries through 2016 to 2019, including Hazelhurst Regional Gallery and Arts Centre, Murray Art Museum Albury, Redcliffe Art Gallery, and the New England Regional Arts Museum. In 2017 he accepted a full-time university position and has been working as an academic and director of the universities public gallery space. He recently completed his PhD concentrating on Derrida's theory of Hauntology in relation to the creative process of the artist.