Exhibition Dates: 12 September – 27 September 2025
Opening Event: Saturday 13 September, 4 – 6pm
Fintan Magee is a social realist painter, specialising in large-scale murals. Born in Lismore, New South Wales, his earlier large-scale paintings often inhabited the isolated, underutilised or abandoned spaces of the city. Now based in Brisbane, his expansive 2D murals are found all over the world in highly visible locations including in Atlanta, Buenos Aires, Boulogne Su Mer, Copenhagen, Dublin, Jordan, London, Los Angeles, Miami, Moscow, Rome, Tbilisi, and Vienna.
His first solo in Brisbane for many years, Long Walk Home, presents a series of poignant paintings examining the themes of belonging, place, displacement, and suburban isolation. Developed between 2023 to 2025, these works reflect on nostalgia for Queensland’s iconic architecture, landscapes, and urban scenes. They are imposing paintings which grapple with issues of climate change, flooding, and the current housing crisis.
Magee’s paintings offer a nuanced reflection on the paradoxes of the ‘Australian Dream’ and contemporary economic issues. They offer both a love letter to the Australian suburban aesthetic and a contemplative enquiry about the global challenges ahead, capturing the beauty and fragility of a way of life under pressure in unprecedented times.
