Hardback, full colour, 64 pages, W287x H247mm
This beautifully produced hardback publication coincided with Magill’s exhibition at Ikon in April 2004. Focusing primarily on the artist's acclaimed landscape paintings, this catalogue illustrates the remarkable innovation in her use of paint and her confident and experimental treatment of the picture surface. Revolving around a collision between abstracted mark-making and figuration, Magill’s paintings are loaded with an overwhelming Romantic sensibility and sometimes consciously pushed to the near-point of popular kitsch. Her art is not an act of transcribing the real; rather it is the stuff of imagination and memory.
This catalogue includes a foreword by Jonathan Watkins, Director of Ikon, Michael Stanley, Director of Milton Keynes Gallery and Stephen Snoddy, Director of the Baltic at that time. Alongside full colour representations of the work, this publication also features essays by Andrew Wilson and Tim Etchells, a biography and a list of works.