ELIZABETH MAGILL – HEADLAND
2018-05-14Elizabeth Magill is one of her generation’s leading painters. Headland will present a body of new work and will introduce her developing practice to a new and established audience. Headland is a touring exhibition, with shows taking place to date at Limerick City Gallery of Art (LCGA); Wilkinson Gallery, London and the Royal Hibernian Academy (RHA), Dublin.
“A kind of concentrated ambiguity regarding the natural world …. characterizes Magill’s paintings. Throughout her career, Magill has been drawn to the language of painting using nature and landscape. She draws from them a gorgeous and engrossing multiplicity of visual and sensory description” – Declan Long.
Magill’s work is redolent of her sense of place – the Glens of Antrim – which has preoccupied and informed her relationship with her native landscape and her visual response to it. Her approach to painting is always experimental, allowing for previous techniques to give way to newer ones to form an unfolding process.
Opposite – Multi-Storey, 2017
Exhibition runs through to September 23rd, 2018
Ulster Museum
Botanic Gardens
Belfast
BT9 5AB
