Exhibitions

ALEX HAMILTON: HOW FAR IS IT IF YOU ONLY THINK IT

21 Novembre - 15 Décembre 2024 In his latest series How Far Is It If You Only Think It, Alex Hamilton creates works that pose thought-provoking questions and, at times, syntactic answers, reflecting on the age we live in and the challenges of our turbulent world. Engaging with contemporary themes, Hamilton draws inspiration from past centuries... Lire plus

CLAIRE HEALY & SEAN CORDEIRO

SUPPLY CHAIN GANGSTER 24 Octobre - 17 Novembre 2024 How many hours have you spent looking at the back of truck doors while driving? Trucks are an essential part of our global system. Trains, boats and planes are the sexier vehicles that are representational of our global supply chain but trucks fill in those kilometres too. Trucks are the... Lire plus

BANDARR WIRRPANDA: TIMELESS

29 Septembre - 20 Octobre 2024 The timeless land os the title of an Eleanor Dark novel from 1941. It is also the title of a Yothu Yindi song whose lyrics are; I feel the spirit Of the great sisters Calling on me to sing This is the learning Of the great story I'll tell you... Lire plus

SYDNEY CONTEMPORARY 24: CLAIRE HEALY & SEAN CORDEIRO / ALEX HAMILTON

5 - 8 Septembre 2024 BOOTH I11 CARRIAGEWORKS SYDNEY 45 Wilson St, Eveleigh, NSW In a special dual gallery art fair presentation, MAGMA and Jacob Hoerner Galleries present Blue Mountains based artist duo Claire Healy & Sean Cordeiro (MAGMA) alongside Melbourne based artist Alex Hamilton (Jacob Hoerner Galleries). This coupling of artists share overlapping thematic... Lire plus

TONY WOODS

17 Août - 15 Septembre 2024 MAGMA presents TONY WOODS, the artist’s first solo exhibition at the gallery and the first showcase of his work in Melbourne since the artist’s untimely passing in 2017. The exhibition traces key moments in Tony’s journey over six decades of creative practice, featuring a curated selection of works which have... Lire plus

DREZ: ECHO STATE

12 Juillet - 11 Août 2024 'We are but an active reflection of our environments. Receptors of intent, passed through threads of time. As our decisions create ripples, the simultaneous actions of others phase in relation; responding, redirecting, empowering. Our communities become a tapestry of individual timelines, local and abroad. The sum of our present being... Lire plus

+ - : GEOMETRIC ABSTRACTION

24 Mai - 23 Juin 2024 Starring... SAMARA ADAMSON-PINCZEWSKI MILMINYINA DHAMARRANDJI DREZ SEAN HOGAN DJURRAYUN MURRINYINA GARAWAN WANAMBI KIM WESTCOTT TONY WOODS Lire plus

DREZ: DUALITY: MELBOURNE DESIGN WEEK

23 Mai - 9 Juin 2024 Presented as part of Melbourne Design Week 2024. Duality is a site-specific installation exhibiting in the mezzanine space of Magma Galleries. Immerse yourself in the unique circular space designed by Tom Kovac as Drez transforms the mezzanine into an intimate dwelling, captivating viewers through light, colour, and interaction. Drez presents... Lire plus

CHRISTOPHE STIBIO: DAYS WILL BE DAYS, NIGHTS WILL BE NIGHTS, UNTIL...

30 Mars - 30 Avril 2024 With this new body of work Christophe Stibio invites us into an immersive panorama. The Australian landscape - ever present - forms a fundamental starting point. Stibio’s answer to the landscape stems from profound observation, which results in an intimate interpretation where intuition and the cognitive meet. Country as a... Lire plus

MAGMAVERSE 24

ANNUAL GROUP EXHIBITION 2 Février - 8 Mars 2024 Featuring.. MATTHEW COUPER DREZ PIERS GREVILLE SIOBHAN RYAN WURRANDAN MARAWILI CLAIRE HEALY & SEAN CORDEIRO CHRISTOPHE STIBIO BRUD STUDIA MAX VOGELSEE VERT BANDARR WIRRPANDA KIM WESTCOTT TONY WOODS VIEW EXHIBITION CATALOGUE Lire plus

KIM WESTCOTT: NATURE OF NATURE

2 Novembre - 3 Décembre 2023 OPENING RECEPTION: THURSDAY 2 NOVEMBER, FROM 6PM MAGMA GALLERIES 5 BEDFORD ST, COLLINGWOOD, 3066 'The first marks I make for an image determines its ending; it's a precious moment. Whether or not those marks are apparent in the final formation of a picture, is unknown. Like the growth of a... Lire plus

PIERS GREVILLE: OBJECTS IN THE MIRROR

7 - 29 Octobre 2023 After much activity interstate and overseas, ‘Objects In The Mirror’ is the first major solo exhibition of the work of Piers Greville to show in Naarm / Melbourne. The show presents an evolution of the motif of terrain found in much of the artist’s work to date. 'The specificity of... Lire plus

BANDARR WIRRPANDA: WÄŊA-WAṮAŊU - OWNERS OF THE LAND

2 Septembre - 1 Octobre 2023 Bandarr Wirrpanda is a young artist emerging into prominence as part of the found movement based in Yirrkala, NT. It achieved national recognition through “Murrŋiny - a story of metal from the east” exhibition in 2021 (featured on the Art Works - ABCTV). But his lineage runs much deeper. Through... Lire plus

DREZ: GESTALT CHROMA

2 - 25 Juin 2023 GESTALT CHROMA features a new series of works exploring the relationships between a person and the spaces surrounding them. Through sculpture and painting, Drez examines the impact an individual can have on their perceived environment, creating an emphasis on our independent agency and responsibilities as we move through the world.... Lire plus

MATTHEW COUPER

5 - 28 Mai 2023 Matthew Couper is an Aotearoa / New Zealand-born artist living and working in the USA. His art over the past twenty-five years mined western Art History practices ranging from early Italian Renaissance to Spanish and Mexican Baroque. From the middle of 2019, desert island landscapes, moody skies enveloped with plumes... Lire plus

ANNUAL GROUP

10 Février - 15 Mars 2023 Lire plus

KIM WESTCOTT: CHICANE

10 - 30 Décembre 2022 Opening Saturday 10 Dec, From 2 pm 5 Bedford St, Collingwood, 3066   Official exhibition launch of façade artwork (pictured). Featuring new paintings related to the public artwork, as well as drypoint encaustics, sculpture and perspex engravings. To be opened by Dylan Brady (Conductor, Decibel Architecture) at Magma Galleries.  ... Lire plus

MIKE GREEN: M A D (Mutually Assured Destruction)

22 Novembre - 3 Décembre 2022 Opening Tuesday 22nd November, from 6pm Forty Five Downstairs 45 Flinders Ln, Melbourne VIC 3000 Mutually Assured Destruction (M A D) is a doctrine of military strategy and security policy where a full-scale use of nuclear weapons by two or more opposing sides would cause the annihilation of... Lire plus

ALPHA: Magma Galleries Collingwood Launch

4 - 27 Novembre 2022 Opening Friday November 4, from 5pm 5 Bedford Street Collingwood, 3066 The creation of this inner city gallery is a special moment for us, marking a momentous step for the gallery and a multiyear journey in the making. Initially conceived by renowned Australian architect Tom Kovac, the building has a... Lire plus

CHRISTOPHE STIBIO | WARNING: SEVERE WEATHER

3 - 12 Juin 2022 Open from 10am - 6pm Meat Market Stables 2 Wreckyn Street North Melbourne, 3051 Artist floor talk Saturday 11 June from 2pm. After two years of surveying major Australian land sites, including the Central Desert (NT), Flinders Ranges (SA) and Lake Mungo (NSW), Christophe Stibio presents a new group of... Lire plus

KIM WESTCOTT: the other web – Ink paintings, photographs and sculptures

Benalla Art Gallery 30 Juillet - 3 Octobre 2021 The other web is an ambitious new body of work by Kim Westcott. Whilst the works reference nature, including tree trunks, branches, shadows and webforms, there is ‘the other web’, for which the title refers. The exhibition shows Westcott’s unique visual language—for which she is known—deftly applied across media including... Lire plus

CHRISTOPHE STIBIO: Adieu à Mary St

25 Mars - 1 Avril 2021 Lire plus

PETER BOOTH & REG MOMBASSA: Charcoal Works

1 Février - 31 Mars 2021 Lire plus

CHRISTOPHE STIBIO: Fragile and Dangerous

11 - 25 Janvier 2020 Christophe Stibio wants to take you back to the landscape. To ask what it is you actually see. To question the relationship between nature and humans. To look at land in the context of time and culture as well as experience something akin to nature: disharmonious, unpredictable, yet fragile and... Lire plus

KIM WESTCOTT: It's All Intertwined - A Survey Exhibition

Wangaratta Art Gallery 21 Mars - 3 Mai 2015 Lire plus