ELIZABETH MAGILL
b. 1959, CanadaBorn in 1959, Magill is a painter who depicts aspects of nature. While she was born in Canada, she grew up in Northern Ireland and attended the Belfast College of Art to study painting as a Fine Arts Degree from 1979 to 1982. From 1982 to 1984 she attended the Slade College of Fine Arts and received her Masters of Arts in Painting. Her paintings frequently explore the effects of the sublime, focusing on small aspects of nature like rain drops or leaves that can often go unnoticed. She often draws on pratices of photography, integrating photographic materials and processes into her paintings.
She has been exhibition since the mid 1980s, although her first major solo exhibition was in 1990 at the Arnolfini Gallery in Bristol. Other solo exhibitions have been held at the Towner Contemporary Art Museum, Eastbourne (2011), the Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery, Dublin (2003) and the Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Baltic, Gateshead and Milton Keynes Gallery in 2004. She has held fellowships at the Tate Gallery, Liverpool and Saarlandisches Kunstlerhaus, Saarbrucken, Germany. Her work is included in a number of public collections such as; the British Museum, Worchester Museum and Art Gallery, Bank of Ireland, American Express, Arts Council of Northern Ireland, Southhampton City Art Gallery and Deloitte Art Collection, among others. She currently lives and works in London.
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