Artist assembling a sculpture in an art studio filled with similar sculptures and masks.

Image Vivian Gasperotto

Background &Journey

Magali Feuga is a French Australian visual artist based on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Working across sculpture and painting, her practice focuses on the human form.

Her artistic sensibility was shaped by an unconventional childhood spent largely travelling around the world on her parent’s sailboat. This early exposure to diverse cultures and environments has fostered a lasting curiosity for human expression and connection and has continued to shape the tactile and layered quality of her work.

She later studied art at the EMAP (Ecole Municipale d’Art Plastique) in Nice in the late 1990s and continued to develop her practice through self-guided learning over the years. Since settling in Australia in 2018, Magali has returned to her studio with a focus on sculpture as her primary mode of expression.

She has been a finalist in the Du Rietz Art Awards and Sculpture on The Edge and has exhibited at The Other Art Fair in Sydney, The Affordable Art Fair in Melbourne and the Brisbane Sculpture Festival, as well as in several group exhibitions around Australia.

An artist working on a textured mixed-media art piece  covered in various layers of cardboard and paper, with hands adjusting or attaching a detail.

Image Vivian Gasperotto

Artistic Practice

Suspended between tradition and imagination, Magali’s sculptural work offers both visual and tactile engagement.

Revolving around the human form, each sculpture stands as a reimagined ancestor. A timeless presence carrying a quiet and contemplative stillness. Perhaps reminding us of the beauty of our collective heritage, as much as of our cultural uniqueness.

Years of travel have deeply influenced her work. Shaping her exploration of identity, belonging, and the ways we connect with one another and with the natural world. Symbolism, mythology, and visual languages from across the globe, are reinterpreted in the form of evocative sculptural figures.

Magali uses cardboard, papier-mâché, paper, natural fibres, discarded textiles, and reclaimed wooden elements, to thoughtfully construct each piece. Despite their seemingly temporary nature, these recycled materials can be shaped and transformed in almost the same ways as traditional mediums.

Their inherent histories and traces of previous lives become integral to the work. Echoing her interest in memory, continuity, and the enduring presence of the past within human history.

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Exhibitions

2026

Brisbane Sculpture Festival, Mount Coot-Tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane

Odd Pieces, group exhibition, The Loft Gallery, Redcliffe

Museum of Lost Things, Poetic Tiger Gallery, USA

Curious World of Peculiar Dolls, Poetic Tiger Gallery, USA

2025

Sculpture On The Edge, finalist’s exhibition, Flaxton Garden

Sunshine Coast Art & Design Fair, Flaxton Garden

Du Rietz Art Award, finalist’s exhibition, Gympie Regional Gallery, Gympie

Reflections, group exhibition, Maroochy Bushland Botanic Gardens, Tanawha

Garden Party, group exhibition, Stevens Street Gallery, Yandina

Brisbane Sculpture Festival, Mount Coot-Tha Botanic Gardens, Brisbane

The Other Art Fair, Sydney

2024

Eclectica, group exhibition, Butter Factory Arts Centre, Cooroy

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

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’s 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

2026 Finalist Brisbane Sculpture Festival

2026 Finalist Du Rietz Art 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, ‘Face to Face’, interview and front cover, winter issue

2023 Arts Hub, mention in article ‘Sculpture on the Edge promises an immersive experience’

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