Mandy McIntosh trained as a knitwear designer and worked at Kenzo in Paris for two years before returning to a Masters course at Glasgow School of Art. She has been making films since 1996. She also runs Ham and Enos, an atelier directed towards the realisation of creative projects in variable media. She often works with other artists, specialists and community on a project to project basis.

Her collaboration with Kaffe Matthews and Zeena Parkins won a BAFTA for best interactive media in 2004. Her work has been screened and shown throughout Europe, Australia, North America, Canada and Brazil. A unique hybrid practice which encompasses animation, visual art, fashion, architecture, 2 and 3D design, craft and writing.