Background &Journey
Magali Feuga is a French-Australian visual artist based on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Working across sculpture and painting, her practice explores identity, memory, and the enduring relationship between the human form and the natural world.
Her artistic sensibility was shaped by an unconventional upbringing spent largely travelling on her parent’s sailboat. This early exposure to diverse cultures and environments has fostered a lasting curiosity for human expression and connection. She later studied art in Nice, France, before pursuing a creative life informed by extensive travel and her work as a chef—experiences that continue to shape the tactile and layered quality of her practice.
Since settling in Australia in 2018, Magali has returned to her studio practice with a focus on sculpture as her primary mode of expression. Her works—often constructed from reclaimed and recycled materials—carry a quiet, contemplative presence, evoking both ancient artefacts and contemporary reflections on belonging.
Magali currently works from her Sunshine Coast studio, where her process is guided by slowness, material sensitivity, and a thoughtful approach to form.
Artistic Practice
Working primarily in sculpture, Magali Feuga creates figurative works that feel both timeless and intimate. Using cardboard, paper, paper mâché, natural fibres, discarded textiles, and wooden elements, her practice embraces imperfection, texture, and transformation. These material choices are integral, reflecting cycles of fragility, resilience, and renewal.
Her figures carry a quiet, contemplative presence—at once ancestral and contemporary—drawing on mythology, cultural symbolism, imagined ancestry, and personal narrative.
Rather than portraiture, her sculptures function as presences: distilled, emotive forms that invite introspection. Each work emerges through a slow, thoughtful process, allowing material and form to guide its resolution.
The resulting pieces offer both visual and tactile depth, drawing the viewer into a space of stillness where memory, material, and form converge—suggesting something ancient and deeply human.
Exhibitions
2026
Museum of Lost Things, Poetic Tiger Gallery, USA
Curious World of Peculiar Dolls, Poetic Tiger Gallery, USA
2025
Sculpture On The Edge, finalist exhibition, Flaxton Garden
Sunshine Coast Art & Design Fair, Flaxton Garden
Du Rietz Art Award, Gympie Regional Gallery
Reflections, group exhibition, Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens
Garden Party, group exhibition, Stevens Street Gallery, Yandina
Brisbane Sculpture Festival, finalist exhibition, Mount Coot-Tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane
The Other Art Fair, Sydney
2024
Wild, group exhibition, Fieldtrip Gallery, Paddington, Brisbane
Sculpture On The Edge, finalist exhibition, Flaxton Garden
The Affordable Art Fair, Melbourne – Represented by Vernissage Art
The Other Art Fair, Sydney
Soul Sugar, solo exhibition, The Old Ambulance Station, Nambour
2023
Eclectica, group exhibition, Butter Factory Arts Center, Cooroy
Sculpture On The Edge, finalist exhibition, Flaxton Garden
Be Still, group exhibition, Stevens Street Gallery, Yandina
Rustle, group exhibition, Aspire Gallery, Brisbane
The Neu Neu, group exhibition, Red Hill Gallery, Brisbane
Emerging Artists Prize, finalist exhibition, Revival Art & Design Gallery, Brisbane
2022
Life On Life’s Terms, Art Show, Brisbane
Featured artist, Stevens Street Gallery, Yandina
Dean Cogle Portrait Prize, finalist exhibition, Currumbin Waters
2021
Featured artist, Stevens Street Gallery, Yandina
Life On Life’s Terms, Art Show, Brisbane
Stand Still, group exhibition, Aspire Gallery, Paddington
Nature’s Beauty, group exhibition, Aspire Gallery, Paddington
Awards
2025 Finalist Sculpture on The Edge
2025 Finalist Du Rietz Art Awards
2025 Finalist Brisbane Sculpture Festival
2024 Finalist Sculpture on The Edge
2023 Finalist Sculpture on The Edge
2023 Salon des refusés – Lethbridge 20000 Art Award
2023 Finalist The Doyles Art Award
2023 Finalist Revival Art & Design Emerging Artist Art Prize
2023 Salon des refusés – John Villiers Outback Art Prize
2022 Finalist Dean Cogle Portrait Prize
2022 Salon des refusés- Lethbridge 20000 Art Award
2021 Salon des refusés – Lethbridge 20000 Art Award
Publications
2025 The AU review - Aussie Indie Artists Q&A series
2023 Hello Sunshine Magazine - Art & Design article - May Issue
2023 Arts Hub - ‘Sculpture on the Edge promises an immersive experience’ article