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29/08/2026

Raising contemporary concerns in unexpected ways, Alex Hamilton’s practice moves between mass physiology, the environment and AI. His works hold an enduring tension between the physical and the technological, where partially erased archival photographs of our world emerge alongside painted colour and form.

Looking simultaneously to the past and future, Hamilton considers different versions of our material-technological world, provoking contemplation between the uncertain territory of utopia and its contradictions.

Image 1: “Tougher than a red colour, the town sank back into its own image, chance became destiny”

Image 5: “Lying weather seeps into DNA and the Dream is not easy erased away”

“For me this painting points both to an enduring reality which ‘doesn’t go away’ but also the juxtaposition of a diffusive meandering style of image making opposing the grandiose sounding ‘chance became destiny’ which seems to describe ourselves subject to unforeseen chance if we happen to be looking elsewhere.”

Alex Hamilton

Currently on view at Magma. For enquiries please DM the gallery. Courtesy of Jacob Hoerner Galleries.

Artworks:
Tougher than a red colour, the town sank back into its own image, chance became destiny, 2025
Acrylic and ink on repurposed acrylic sheets
158 x 98 cm

Lying weather seeps into DNA and the Dream is not easy erased away, 2025
Acrylic and ink on repurposed acrylic sheets and paper
79 x 101 cm

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27/08/2026

New works by Piers Greville trace the shifting boundary between landscape, memory and machine vision. By adopting a cartographic perspective, Piers examines the pervasive presence of human technology in our atmosphere, placing a particular emphasis on river systems in these new works.

“It is a painting of a place in my childhood memory... To reconstruct the terrain, I looked at satellite data, an armature on which to drape my memory, a cyborg of my biological memory and an extra-terrestrial view.”

“Something the Tumut River represents, is the idea of a cyborg: Historically (‘Naturally’), it flows into the Murrumbidgee catchment… now a hydroelectric scheme has the (‘Mechanical’) ability to introduce - at the flick of a switch - waters otherwise bound for the east coast.”

Piers Greville

On view at Magma. For enquires please DM the gallery.

Artworks:
Tumut River Through-Line, 2026
Oil on canvas
183 x 76 cm

38°07’01.0”N 46°24’14.1”E, 2026
Oil on canvas
40.5 x 30.5 cm

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17/06/2026

Final days

KIM WESTCOTT
COLOURED RAIN

7 MAY - 20 JUNE

For the final days of the exhibition, visitors have the opportunity to meet Kim Westcott in the gallery. The artist will be present from 1–4 pm, Thursday to Saturday, to share insights about the inspiration, process and themes behind the work.

Immersed in the forests of Northeast Victoria, Westcott traces the shifting rhythms of season, weather and light. Rain becomes a catalyst for colour, revealing the iridescent life and hidden energies of the bush.

Coloured Rain is on view at MAGMA until Saturday June 20.

Kim Westcott

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12/06/2026

Westcott’s immersion in the forest exposes her to a visual universe of inspiration after dark. Auroras are fleeting phenomena, but the energy they generate leaves a lasting impression on the artist’s creative flow. Their intense colours and shifting forms challenge perceptions of light, atmosphere, and landscape.

In All Seasons (pictured), Westcott captures these extraordinary night skies experienced on her property through pulsating fields of pink and red. Engraved lines etched into the acrylic surface evoke streams of charged particles and celestial sparks. The work is informed by Westcott’s own photography (images 2 & 4), which document auroras and their intensity of colour, light and transience.

All Seasons extends Westcott’s ongoing exploration of landscapes transformed by shifting conditions of light and colour, drawing inspiration from a night sky that remains deeply connected to her practice.

Kim Westcott

On view at Magma until 20 June.

Artwork:
All Seasons, 2026.
Acrylic on cast engraved acylic.
180 x 100 cm

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30/05/2026

In Coloured Rain, Westcott introduces engraved aluminium as a new form of mark-making within her paintings. The development emerges naturally from her printmaking background, where she has spent decades engraving copper plates for drypoint prints. On aluminium, however, the technique takes on a new role, stripping the material back to its original state and revealing something more elemental. Made as a final intervention upon otherwise completed paintings, these marks fundamentally alter each work’s visual energy.

In Westcott’s own words: “It’s not a fixed experience, it’s an unmeasured and varying state of being.”
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On view at Magma until 20 June.

Artworks:
Sentient Grove I & II, 2026.
Acrylic on engraved aluminium.
120 x 60 cm

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19/05/2026

Installation images from KIM WESTCOTT: COLOURED RAIN

7 May - 20 June

“Coloured rain explores the intertwined emotions that arise through the forest that inspires my artwork–stillness, turbulence and renewal continually unfolds and connects me with my surroundings. I create branch forms, and shifting veils of colour which echo the forest’s own cycles of coloured light and shadow. These forms absorb and release colour much like we absorb and release experiences.” art  
Visit the gallery Wednesday - Saturday or DM the gallery for the catalogue.
 Image 2: Rootlines I, 2025, Acrylic on engraved cast acrylic, 90 x 50 cm
Image 3: Coloured Rain I, 2025, Acrylic on aluminium panels, 180 x 240 (diptych) Image 04: Sentient Grove I & II, 2026, Acrylic on engraved aluminium, 120 x 60 cm Image 05: Sentient Grove I (detail) Image 06: Deep Rooted, 2026, Acrylic on engraved cast acrylic, 30 x 21 cm

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13/05/2026

Now open

KIM WESTCOTT
COLOURED RAIN

7 May - 20 June

Within Coloured Rain, a new prolific body of work unfolds like the cycle of seasons. The exhibition represents a kind of seasonal calendar of her environment. Shifts in tone, colour and mood are intimately tied to the seasons as well as the artists emotional states. The sombre quiet of a forest after rain reflects winter, or the light, expansive energy of blossoming wildflowers, the spring. Rain and colour become inseparable. In the forest, rainfall doesn’t dull the landscape, it activates it. A seemingly dull, dusty eucalyptus trunk transforms into a complex rainbow of colour, refracting and glowing when you simply add moisture. Gum trees in Australia are uniquely iridescent due to the eucalyptus oil within them, and rain intensifies this effect. This exhibition cleverly captures that phenomenon, evoking the sensation of standing within an ancient forest while it rains.

Visit the gallery Wednesday - Sunday or click the link in bio to view online.
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08/05/2026

Thanks to everyone who came out to celebrate the opening of KIM WESTCOTT: COLOURED RAIN.

The exhibition is now open and running until 20 June. Visit the gallery Wednesday - Saturday or explore online.
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