Richard Magee

I am an Irish artist whose works slip between painting, printmaking and bookbinding. For the past years I have experimented, learned, taught and worked
professionally with printmaking techniques including photopolymer, woodcut, screenprint and etching. My own prints reflect the main concerns of my practice: language, time passing, technology, and visualising thoughts. Printmaking reinvigorated my practice while enabling me to show provisional
drawings or ideas as finished works. For example, a car key looks like a bird, or a clock that looks like it is eating what is in front of it. The possibilities for formal experimentation, surface choice and unpredictability of the printmaking process are constantly re-energising.

Richard Magee (b. 1994, Derry) was introduced to art practice at the Void Art School, Derry before undertaking a BA in painting from the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and a MA from the Höchschule für Bilende Kunst, Hamburg. Currently, he is a part-time doctoral student researching underrepresented exhibits in Ireland during the Troubles. In 2023, he undertook a printmaking internship at Druckwerk Wien and the Intaglio Lab of the Akademie for Art in Vienna, Austria before returning to the UK. Currently, he is the temporary leader of the BA in Fine Art at the Carmarthen School of Art, Wales. Previously, he has received funding to travel and research Land Art in the American South West, been funded by the Arts Council and received numerous awards. Including, the Cass Painting Award, 2017. His work is held in private collections in America and Europe.