Macintosh is a Melbourne-based artist who first came to Vietnam in 1992 and has since returned regularly. He has worked with a variety of mediums and his works are strongly influenced by his time in Vietnam.

The rubbings are part of an ongoing project to record actual surfaces and textures in Vietnam. They are made using pencil graphite on traditional Vietnamese "do" (poonah) paper, by laying the paper over an object and then making a trace of the raised surface.
MacIntosh's rubbings were made at temples and churches, in people's homes, at shops and in the streets. They are of things like memorial and church stones, wall decorations, tribal objects, bamboo, window and door grilles, and manhole covers.

The paintings are mixed media on paper, made from the ordinary and everyday life which the artist found around him, like newspapers, magazines, and advertising.
"Exhibitions like this one enriches artistic life of HCM City," said the Consul-General of Australia in HCM City, Mal Skelly.

The show runs until June 29.