Fintan Magee
Fintan Magee ‘Days Grow Longer’ Solo Show at KIRK Gallery, Aalborg, Denmark
Internationally acclaimed Australian artist Fintan Magee has been working hard during times of lockdown and is gearing up for a new solo show, Days Grow Longer at KIRK Gallery. From working-class subjects to environmentally-focused commentary, Sydney based Magee has emerged as a unique figurehead for the socially-conscious twenty-first century muralist community and is often referred to as a social realistic …
Our Own Top Ten Murals of 2020
The first steps to spring cleaning require a mess—drawers must be emptied and cobwebbed closets gutted to make space for reorganization. Clutter must be uprooted, scattered across dusty floors, and assessed. Like James Baldwin said, “Not everything that is faced can be changed, but nothing can be changed until it is faced.” Without the initial …
A Stunning Mural By Fintan Magee Paying Tribute To Front Line Workers
Come hell or high water, street artists simply want to paint. We’ve seen this principle play out over the course of the pandemic, as international artists have turned their talents to the far-flung countries where they’re based. Illustrious Australian powerhouse Fintan Magee is no different. Magee recently completed a new mural in Queensland, Australia for …
Mural By Fintan Magee On Aboriginal Struggles To Coexist
Australian street artist Fintan Magee recently returned to his home country, where he finished a stunning new mural titled ‘Meeting Point.’ The artist painted his endeavor in Dubbo, New South Wales, Australia, 752 kilometers from Lismore, the town where he was born in the same state. In an Instagram comment regarding the mural, Magee explained, …
Kirk Gallery Unveils A Stunning Mural By Fintan Magee in Aalborg
After nearly two weeks of painting, Australian street artist Fintan Magee completed his powerful new mural titled “Structure” for the fifth edition of Out in the Open festival, hosted in Aalborg, Denmark by KIRK Gallery. The festival’s lineup, we reported on in April 2019, featured seven artists from five different countries all over the world. …
A Stunning Mural By Fintan Magee In Papeete, Tahiti
Australian street artist Fintan Magee recently traveled to Papeete, Tahiti to complete his newest mural “Strength of Memory”. The five-story project, found in French Polynesia’s capital city, was curated by ONO’U Tahiti, an organization that promotes public art on the island. ONO’U hosts a yearly graffiti festival and also hosts street art tours, in addition …
SAUS’ Ten Influential Murals Of 2018
Street-art is one of the most hybrid forms of artistic expression in our modern world. Socially, it can be used as a tool to change neighborhoods all over the world. Politically, it can voice and transcend instantly, changing rhetoric and opinion through direct communication to the masses. Murals, and public art can become influential, very …
Fintan Magee & Guido van Helten Create Mural in Tehran, Iran
Last November, a mural drawn by the two Australian artists Fintan Magee & Guido van Helten has been unveiled in the Iranian capital Tehran to celebrate the 50th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Iran and Australia. This was the first time foreign artists had been granted permission to paint in the country since the 1979 revolution. The …
Fintan Magee in Minsk, Belarus
Any victim of lost love, childhood nostalgia, or unfulfilled dreams can attest to sweetness of the past’s lilting siren song. However, reality belongs to those who fearlessly turn their gaze towards the future. True, every work completed by an artist progresses their story forward, but it can only occasionally be said that an artist’s work …
Top 5 Murals in Newtown, Australia
My home used to be Chorlton, Manchester (in the UK). Now home is Newtown, Sydney (in Australia). Culturally they are similar suburbs. Colourful, eccentric, tolerant, diverse, hip, politically involved, bohemian. Not quite separated at birth. But pretty close. I’m connected to both places by an invisible length of twine. I have on occasion, made a …
Gigantic Murals Come to Life During Finland’s Second UPEA Street Art Festival
Finland’s multi-city street art festival UPEA was held for the second year in September 2017. UPEA invites the most talented artists from all over the world to create more than 20 large scale murals in 13 different Finnish cities. Following its first edition success in 2016, the event further added to Finland’s festival scene this …
Fintan Magee in Saarbrücken, Germany
Australian artist Fintan Magee just completed his latest installment a few days ago in Saarbrücken, Germany. This mural is part of an Urban Art project called Artwalk – Saarbrücken taking place in the inner city of Saarbrucken, under the artistic direction of the Saarbrücken gallery owners Patrick Jungfleisch (Reso) and Benjamin Knur. About The Mural The Australian artist …