Biography

David Magee (b.1963) is an Irish lens-based visual Artist, known for his meditative photographs. He was born and raised in Cork, Ireland and studied Fine Art at Crawford Municipal School of Art, Cork, before graduating from Glasgow School of Art & Design in 1986.

He has been the recipient of numerous awards including more recently, - The Paris Photography Prize (PX3) - The Lucie Awards, New York, - Fine Art Photography Awards, London - The Tokyo International Foto Awards.

He has produced two monographs including the multi award winning ‘Outside’, a twenty-five year retrospective, which was published to international acclaim in 2017. He has exhibited globally and his works are held in both private and municipal collections.

Having travelled extensively, it is the Irish landscape, specifically the Atlantic coastline, that has become the focus for much of his work in recent years.

Magee lives and works between his homes in West Cork and London.

Artist’s Statement

“My work is inspired by Nature...

For over 35 years, I have been creating pictures Outside, in the landscape. Working alone, primarily before dawn and in the darker hours. My visual language is one of intimacy and emotion and speaks of the transcendence and humbling magnitude of Nature.

My works are not by definition landscapes, more my creative observations and interpretations of the Natural World, its spiritual and physical energy, its majesty and its essential mystery.They bear testament to my wanderings and my conversations with Nature. Each work is as a result of many hours walking, climbing, exploring and connecting with the elemental. Through them I hope to create evocative places of rest and contemplation, that engage the viewer with the experience of being Outside, immersed in the elements, in isolation and communion with the landscape. Primarily non-representational, they are less about actual place and more intended to explore the phenomena of inner experience.

I want the viewer to feel touched and affected by my work.
For it to resonate, to get something from it - to experience it...”