#fintan magee

By Sasha Korban

Georgian Culture and Ukrainian Pride Highlight the 2022 Tbilisi Mural Fest

All images by Tiku Kobiashvili, courtesy of Tbilisi Mural Fest

By Chertova Tina

By Fintan Magee

Fintan Magee’s “Days Grow Longer” at KIRK Gallery.

Opening on March 20th, 2021 at KIRK Gallery in Denmark is artist Fintan Magee’s solo exhibition, “Days Grow Longer.”

From working-class subjects to environmentally-focused commentary, the Australian artist has emerged as a unique figurehead for the socially-conscious twenty-first century muralist community and is often referred to as a social realistic painter.

As a common basis for the upcoming show, Magee’s works are a product of a time with travel restrictions, leaving Magee confined to working in his Sydney studio for an extended period; consuming current discourse solely through the lens of broadcast and digital news media. Unable to travel, converse with a wider audience, photograph models for narrative works, or visit museums for reference and inspiration, Magee's usual ability to settle on a central narrative or theme was stifled.

Magee began to search for inspiration and references in the world around him, his studio. A pot plant became his subject, and remaining true to his methodology, it was photographed, becoming the 'still life' of a daily ritualistic act.

“These works were made during a hotel Quarantine period in Western Australia. Each work took a day to make and represents a day of quarantine with each painting acting as a tally mark and becoming a daily mediation. The shift in focus to the physical act of painting over concept development lead Magee to begin to make sense of the state of chaos and isolation that he and the world were experiencing.”

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Impermanent Art’s 2020 in review: ten favorite photos taken on our travels this year. 

1. El Mac in Miami. 

2. Fintan Magee in Primm, NV for Mural Oasis. 

3. Eduardo Kobra in New York City. 

4. Meg Saligman in Philadelphia. 

5. Bezt in downtown Las Vegas. 

6. Mabel Vicentef in Sacramento for Wide Open Walls. 

7. Cheyenne Randall in Sacramento for Wide Open Walls. 

8. Chip Thomas for the Painted Desert Project in Cameron, AZ. 

9. Fin DAC in Miami for The Raw Project.