Elizabeth Magill
Royal Academy and Southhampton City Art Gallery
Elizabeth Magill's work is currently on show at The Royal Academy, London 'Summer/Winter Exhibition 2020' and 'Shadows and Light' at The Southampton City Art Gallery.
Elizabeth Magill
The sky was all orange (2), 2021, oil and screenprint on canvas, 128 x 148 cm / 50.4 x 58.3 in
Red Stars 2021, oil and screenprint on canvas, 183 x 153 cm / 72 x 60.2 in
Elizabeth Magill, pink mineral, 2020, oil on canvas, 32.5 x 42.5 x 5 cm / 12.8 x 16.7 x 2 in framed
Elizabeth Magill, Location, 2020, oil on canvas, 40.5 x 50.5 cm / 15.9 x 19.9 in
Elizabeth Magill, smoulder, 2020, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 40.5 cm / 12 x 15.9 in
Elizabeth Magill, her nature, 2020, oil on canvas, 46 x 35.5 cm / 18.1 x 14 in
Elizabeth Magill, greensound (1), 2020, oil on canvas, 30.5 x 40.5 cm / 12 x 15.9 in
Elizabeth Magill, mothlight, 2020, oil on canvas, 40.5 x 50.5 cm / 15.9 x 19.9 in
Elizabeth Magill,
Wild Primroses, 2007,
oil on canvas,
20.5 x 20.5 cm / 8.1 x 8.1 in
Elizabeth Magill, Gazers, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 26 x 26.5 cm / 10.2 x 10.4 in
Elizabeth Magill, Toward, 2017, oil on canvas, 31 x 31 cm / 12.2 x 12.2 in
Elizabeth Magill,
In Two Parts, 2018,
oil and screenprint on canvas,
145 x 110 cm / 57.1 x 43.3 in each
145 x 225 cm / 57.1 x 88.6 in total
Elizabeth Magill, Return, 2016, oil and collage on canvas, 152.5 x 183 cm / 60 x 72 in
Elizabeth Magill, Anterior (1), 2017, oil and screenprint on canvas, 153 x 183 cm / 60.2 x 72 in
Elizabeth Magill, Still (2), 2017, oil and silkscreen on canvas, 183 x 153 cm / 72 x 60.2 in
Elizabeth Magill, Betula Pendula, 2012, oil on canvas, 168 x 198 cm
Elizabeth Magill, Dendriform 10, 2012, oil on canvas, 214 x 277cm
Elizabeth Magill, Red Prefecture, 2003, oil on canvas, 167.6 x 198.1 cm / 66 x 78 in
Elizabeth Magill, Apart, 2001, oil on canvas, 183 x 213 cm / 72 x 83.9 in
Elizabeth Magill, Site with Blue Tree, 1998, oil on canvas, 152 x 183 cm / 59.8 x 72 in
Elizabeth Magill, Scenic Route 3, 1997, oil on canvas, 152 x 183 cm / 59.8 x 72 in
Elizabeth Magill,
Headland,
RHA Gallery, Dublin
19 Jan 2018 - 25 Feb 2018
Elizabeth Magill,
Headland,
RHA Gallery, Dublin
19 Jan 2018 - 25 Feb 2018
Elizabeth Magill,
Headland,
RHA Gallery, Dublin
19 Jan 2018 - 25 Feb 2018
Elizabeth Magill,
Headland,
The New Art Gallery Walsall,
17 October 2018 — 20 January 2019
Elizabeth Magill,
Headland,
The New Art Gallery Walsall,
17 October 2018 — 20 January 2019
Elizabeth Magill,
Headland,
The New Art Gallery Walsall,
17 October 2018 — 20 January 2019
Elizabeth Magill,
Headland,
Limerick City Gallery of Art,
8 September - 22 October 2017
Elizabeth Magill,
Headland,
Limerick City Gallery of Art,
8 September - 22 October 2017
Elizabeth Magill,
Headland,
Limerick City Gallery of Art,
8 September - 22 October 2017
Elizabeth Magill,
Green Light Wanes,
Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne,
25th March — 19th June 2011
Elizabeth Magill,
Green Light Wanes,
Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne,
25th March — 19th June 2011
Elizabeth Magill,
Green Light Wanes,
Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne,
25th March — 19th June 2011
b.1959, Canada
Since she began exhibiting in the late-1980s, Elizabeth Magill has developed a highly idiosyncratic approach to painting and printmaking. She is celebrated for her evocative landscapes, which capture atmospheric conditions with great sensitivity: the luminosity of daybreak, or the cool glow of moonlight. The scenes appear to be sited on the edge of urbanity – roofs, streetlamps or telephone wires can occasionally be sighted in the background, but human figures are rare. Instead, clusters of trees dominate Magill’s compositional arrangements, and only through their branches can hedges, hills and radiant skies be glimpsed. At times, Magill’s paintings are layered with visionary elements, and the artist suffuses her work with memory and experience of place, prioritising the expression of her inner reality over accurate representation. She often incorporates photographic materials and processes into her work, starting off with a photographic image on the canvas before applying and scraping away layers of paint until she achieves the desired mood. Born in Canada, Magill grew up in Northern Ireland and now lives and works in London.
Recent and forthcoming solo exhibitions include: Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, (May, 2021); Headland, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, (2017); travelling to Ulster Museum, Belfast, (2018); Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin (2018) and New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK, (2019); Green Light Wanes, Towner Gallery & Museum, Eastbourne, UK, (2011); Recent Paintings, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, travelling to Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes; BALTIC, Gateshead; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea, (all 2005) and Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin (2003). Recent group exhibitions include: The Aerodrome – An exhibition dedicated to the memory of Michael Stanley, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK, (2019); Legacies: JMW Turner and Contemporary Art Practice, New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK, (2017); and High Treason: Roger Casement, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Ireland, (2016).
Magill's work is represented in many museum and public collections worldwide including those of TATE, London; The Irish Museum of Modern Art; The Hugh Lane Gallery, Dublin; The Arts Council of England; The Arts Council of Northern Ireland; Ulster Museum, Belfast; The British Museum, London; Towner Art Gallery & Museum, Eastbourne; Worchester Museum and Art Gallery; Southampton City Art Gallery; The British Council and the National Gallery of Australia.
Elizabeth Magill
Coming soon
FIAC Online Viewing Rooms
2nd - 7th March 2021
Elizabeth Magill
Her Nature
5 September - 10 October 2020
Merlin James, Elizabeth Magill and Stephen McKenna
last day of May
31st May - 6th July 2019
Elizabeth Magill
Green Light Wanes
26th November - 23rd December 2010
Celebrating 20 Years
An exhibition of new work by Kerlin Gallery Artists
28th April - 24th May 2008
SUMMER GROUP SHOW 2006
18 August - 30 September 2006
Elizabeth Magill
Arborescence
09 June - 10 July 2006
WINTER GROUP SHOW 2006
Gallery Artists
19 December - 07 January 2006
Painting
Group Exhibition
16 July - 28 August 2004
Eight New Paintings
Group Exhibition
25 April - 25 May 2002
Works on paper
14 September - 13 October 2001
Summer Exhibition
06 July - 04 August 2001
Gallery Artists
9 June - 8 July 2000
Elizabeth Magill - Headland
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Elizabeth Magill - Green Light Wanes
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2010
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Elizabeth Magill acquired by Tate Collection
Tate Collection, London
15 July 2020
Elizabeth Magill's painting 'Verge Near Flyover' (1999) has been acquired by the Tate Collection.
and the days run away like wild horses over the hills
Scoil Lorcáin, Seapoint, Dublin
31 July - 7 August 2019
Aleana Egan, Hannah Fitz, Samuel Laurence Cunnane, Elizabeth Magill and Kathy Prendergast in and the days run away like wild horses over the hills curated by John O’Donoghue.
Elizabeth Magill, In Two Parts
12 Star Gallery, Europe House, London
6 - 15 March 2019
A solo exhibition of paintings by Elizabeth Magill.
Elizabeth Magill, Headland
The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
17 October 2018 — 20 January 2019
Solo exhibition.
Elizabeth Magill, Headland
Ulster Museum, Belfast
11 May – 23 September 2018
Elizabeth Magill Headland presents an exhibition of paintings and works on paper.
Elizabeth Magill, Still (dark)
Matt's Gallery, London
24 February – 4 March 2018
Elizabeth Magill solo exhibition showing three recent works – two small paintings and one large hybrid work mounted on aluminium.
Elizabeth Magill, Headland
Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
19 January – 25 February 2018
Solo exhibition of paintings and works on paper. A publication will be produced to accompany this exhibition.
Legacies: JMW Turner and contemporary art practice
The New Art Gallery, Walsall
22 September 2017 – 14 January 2018
Exhibition with JMW Turner, Christopher Le Brun, Cornelia Parker, Gerry Fox, Idris Khan, Susan Hiller, Bob and Roberta Smith, John Smith, Elizabeth Magill, Dorothy Cross, Jonathan Wright.
Elizabeth Magill, Headland
Limerick City Gallery of Art
9 September – 22 October 2017
A major exhibition of new work by Elizabeth Magill.
Opening reception Friday 8th September, 6–8pm.
A Certain Kind of Light
Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
21 January – 7 May 2017
Kerlin Gallery artists Mark Garry, Elizabeth Magill and Paul Winstanley are included in a major new exhibition at Towner Art Gallery, A Certain Kind Of Light.
Elizabeth Magill & Jesse Jones in Conversation
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
12 May 2016, 1pm
Elizabeth Magill will appear in conversation with Jesse Jones at the Hugh Lane on Thursday 12 May, 1pm. This event is free to attend, no booking necessary.
The artists will be reflecting on Magill’s works Lodge 2 and Roger and the Swans, included in the current exhibitions Jesse Jones NO MORE FUN AND GAMES and High Treason: Roger Casement.
IMMA Collection: A Decade
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
28 April 2016 - 8 January 2017
Works by Willie Doherty, Elizabeth Magill and Brian Maguire are among those included in IMMA Collection: A Decade, an exhibition of some of the highlights from IMMA's collection over the past ten years.
Elizabeth Magill in High Treason: Roger Casement
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane
10 March - 2 October 2016
Work by Elizabeth Magill will be included in High Treason: The Appeal of Roger Casement at The Hugh Lane.
David Godbold, Elizabeth Magill, Eoin McHugh, Stephen McKenna, amongst others, 'Things go Dark'
The Model, Sligo
3 May - 29 June 2014
Things go Dark presents a visual exploration of the principles of aestheticism through the work of nine contemporary Irish artists. The paintings in this exhibition lure the viewer into a world of beauty, fear, tension, dark comedy and suspense. Working in various pictorial languages these artists invoke an intense emotional response that demands to be put into sensible form, while at the same time overwhelming all attempts to do so. Their work explores the possibility of a space of immediacy, which remains outside the workings of power and history.
Elizabeth Magill and Paul Winstanley
Under the Greenwood
12 October - 23 November 2013
St. Barbe Museum and Art Gallery
This companion exhibition to our historic trees show looks at how artists working today are still drawing inspiration from trees including Elizabeth Magill and Paul Winstanley amongst others.
Elizabeth Magill, Culture Now
ICA, London
June 14 2013
A lunchtime conversation with artist Elizabeth Magill and Godfrey Worsdale, Director of the Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art.
Elizabeth Magill, Awarded John Moores Painting Prize Visitors' Choice 2012
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool (part of Liverpool Biennial)
15 September 2012 - 06 January 2013
A large ethereal landscape by Elizabeth Magill is winner of the John Moores Painting Prize Visitors’ Choice 2012, sponsored by Rathbones.
The Irish Times
Elizabeth Magill and the art of the skeptical inquiry
13 January 2018
From early on [Magill has] been inclined to test the limits of the language of painting, not because she is trying to get beyond those limits and discard painting (though she has worked with video), but because that borderline, on the limits of possibility, is what interests her about it.
She has consistently undercut representational illusion, but also insists on the integrity of the pictorial spaces she creates. As she sees it, she is not trying to create visually accurate representations of particular places, but “to create a setting or space to place things, a kind of deposit of thoughts and observations within the framework of a personal and painting practice.”—Aidan Dunne
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‘If a painting gets too pretty, drag it across the studio’
11 October 2017
We walk through, past a room of new, smaller works, where Magill is experimenting with ideas and technique. They’re like rich jewels, full of new directions, yet still unmistakeably hers. Picasso’s Les Demoiselles d’Avignon (1907) appears in one, a cottage in the woods in another. She’s layering painting, silkscreen and film, looking at those layers that come between us and the world as it is, between what’s in our minds and out, in life.—Gemma Tipton
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Biographical Landscapes
September/October 2017
'I’m preoccupied with the genre of landscape as a way to explore the language of art, the possibilities of painting and ideas around personal biography. For me it seems to offer a space to try to think about the bigger picture and what it means to be a part of this world. The landscape that enters into my work mostly comes from the geographic features around the Glens of Antrim where I grew up. This seems to have provided me with some kind of a visual backdrop. This particular corner of Ireland is scenically quite beautiful but the history there often seems at odds, or in conflict, with this natural beauty. The late, great John Berger, in his last publication, Landscapes: John Berger on Art, wrote: “Sometimes a landscape seems less a setting for the life of its inhabitants than a curtain behind which their struggles, achievements and accidents take place... landmarks are no longer only geographical but also biographical and personal”.'
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"Headland", new works by Elizabeth Magill at the Limerick City Gallery of Art
8 September 2017
Elizabeth Magill's exhibition Headland, Limerick City Galllery of Art reviewed on RTÉ Radio One's Arena.
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