PHOTOS DEVELOPING
The use of photography is integral to the work of Anne Magill, yet her paintings are about as far as it is possible to get from a mere facsimile of a figure or a scene. Always elusive yet comfortingly familiar, they suggest rather than describe, hinting at a nostalgic for a non-specific era or place. The catalogue for her forthcoming exhibition, A Sense of Someone, states that Anne’s “paintings are made to be read like photographs”, yet they do things that only paintings can do, engaging just enough and then allow breathing space for the viewer to overlay his or her own stories and memories.
Each new work develops from a starting point that almost always centres around a photograph and Anne’s relationship with it. She perhaps prizes photography given its rarefied status during her
