A bluff, a rock, a hole in the ground

Magill’s paintings are epic, enigmatic and evocative and might be interestingly associated with many genres of painterly film, from the ‘photogenié’ of French Impressionism, to the foreboding monochromes of Hollywood Noire, to the surface crackle and flicker of experimental film, but something of her predisposition towards celestial journeymen, dark ambiance and sinister spaces resonate with Soviet Science Fiction.

Catalogue of an exhibition held at Wilkinson Gallery, London, 29 April - 28 May 2017; Limerick City Gallery of Art, 9 September - 22 October, 2017; Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, 19 January - 25 February 2018; Ultster Museum, Belfast, 11 May - 23 September ; The New Art Gallery Walsall, 12 October 2018 - 20 January 2019.