Elizabeth Magill is a painter who depicts and explores aspects of landscape and the effects of the sublime through her practice.
She works primarily with oil paints, and more recently with silkscreened images imprinted onto her painting canvas. Her images are drawn from photographs she has taken over decades and primarily areas she grew up in and around Antrim in the North of Ireland. The resulting evocative, atmospheric paintings are often bare, desolate and without human figures.
Magill has exhibited widely with notable solo shows held at The New Art Gallery, Walsall; Ulster Museum Belfast, RHA Galleries, Dublin,Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne, IKON Gallery, Birmingham. Baltic Centre, Gateshead; MK Gallery, Milton Keynes; Southampton City Art Gallery and Arnolfini, Bristol.
Her works are also represented in many museums and public collections including the Tate gallery, London; Arts Council of England, the Arts Council of Northern and Southern Ireland; The British Museum, London; Towner Art Gallery and Museum, Eastbourne; Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton and The British Council, The National Art Gallery of Australia, Canberra.
Elizabeth Magill was born in 1959 in Canada, and grew up in Northern Ireland. She now lives and works in both London and Ireland.