MAHALA MAGINS

A small detail of a 2 meter squared painting — super pumped to share this one in the coming weeks! https://www.instagram.com/p/CCnhFoeJAVb/?igshid=1ptmoqrsg75pl

Snippets of a zine and collage works made for a drawing component, first year of uni; whoah! ‘Car Park Culture’ 2002, photocopied photographs, overhead projector film, graphite, various coloured paper and thread. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_hIc3upaIL/?igshid=1p1zad9i8x34t

Inspiration — the process of being mentally stimulated to do or feel something, especially to do something creative. https://www.instagram.com/p/B_YyW9Lp7ZP/?igshid=17rezboy40a6y

Mood Board — 1. Louise Bourgeois 2. Marina Abramović 3. Marlene Dumas 4. Nicole Eisenman 5. Kiki Smith 6. Apollonia Poilâne 7. Marina Abramović 8. Maria Lassnig. https://www.instagram.com/p/B-3hVjAJDsp/?igshid=8ckekvejyr17

‘Bio Hazard’ woodcut — hand carved, printed, and pressed, with painted watercolour on Arches paper H 25 X W 35CM, 10 available $100 each and proudly apart of the Artist Support Pledge! I first made this woodcut last year in response to receiving Cancer treatment, and it’s an unfortunate coincidence that it seems to resonate with our current situation, though unfortunately this is our reality; let’s stay safe! https://www.instagram.com/p/B-od6dzJ69n/?igshid=huzet9vnt399

A small detail of a large self portrait with my thumb[s] up! A painting that reflects one of my lowest moments through treatment. Painted big, bold and bright — all the things I wasn’t feeling at the time! https://www.instagram.com/p/B9L0YpOpSMB/?igshid=su5n6rr0fwi0

‘What an artist is trying to do for people is bring them closer to something, because of course art is about sharing. You wouldn't be an artist unless you wanted to share an experience, a thought.’ — David Hockney https://www.instagram.com/p/B8x6mF4JpYL/?igshid=fp1qq0u6lj8i

A couple of my favourite cloud paintings in no particular order from 2015—2020 [opening image via @differ.design] https://www.instagram.com/p/B8LYV43pZeY/?igshid=oi65izr9lmq9

VISIONARY ‘Public art existed all along, but ecological art just naturally grew out of my thinking and writings in that area for years. I didn't get involved in it; I started what then became a movement.' — Agnes Denes https://www.instagram.com/p/B7nQGBDpkA1/?igshid=1lgykscwigv99

Momentum [Mountain] from 2016 came to mind recently after a day of mooching on the couch watching the Red Bull TV snowboarding channel — Depth Perception, The Fourth Phase, The Art of Flight... this painting was my response to snow covered mountains, an inspired trip to Iceland and an ever moving landscape of Glacier, Serac and Crevasse. Momentum [Mountain], Oil on Linen, 2016, 90 x 80 cm [detail] and in-stalled. https://www.instagram.com/p/B7k7qIUp3-D/?igshid=121xetvqnlyho

Cloud Survey One — depicting a clearing storm, set from the most Easterly Point of Australia; Byron Bay. Details: Oil and Pumice on Wooden Panel, 40CM across, 2019 X https://www.instagram.com/p/B6Akkhcgdp5/?igshid=1ii9p4445cv5r

Congratulations to my extremely talented friend Dustin Fritsche of @softerstudio for winning the coveted Judges choice award @vividdesigncomp with his stunning design ‘Clearer’ — a showcase of emerging furniture and lighting designers at Decor and Design show, Melbourne. ‘Clearer’ Coffee Table in black. America Oak base to appear like bent steel tube, though with the warmth and texture that only timber can provide. Tinted glass top and shelf to put your things on; perfect! https://www.instagram.com/p/B0E4MFygqJq/?igshid=16hq8rrpe4ywl

ARSHILE GORKY based this portrait on himself and his mother on a photograph taken in his native Armenia in 1912, when his was eight years old. Three years later, during the Ottoman Turk Campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Armenians, Gorky, his mother, and his sister all survived a death march. But his mother never recovered her health. She died in 1919 from starvation — a victim of what is now widely held to be the Armenian genocide. The following year at the age of fifteen, Gorky emigrated to the United States with his sister. As he established his career as an artist in his new homeland, he became preoccupied with the photograph; it offered a haunting symbol of his roots and tragedy that had killed between one million and one and half million Armenians. This painting made over a span of 10 years, does not reproduce the cameras image precisely, but instead reduces it to broad areas of muted, softly brushed colour. The mask like faces and the undefined hands of the figures at once suggest their loss of physical connection and the difficulty of accessing memories over time. The Artist and His Mother, Oil on Canvas, 1926—1936. I last saw this painting in 2016 at the Whitney Museum in New York; honoured! (at Whitney Museum of American Art) https://www.instagram.com/p/By9yScdAO4k/?igshid=17cwjicb51azz