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, exploring themes of identity, memory, and our relationship with the natural world.
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 which 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.
Image Vivian Gasperotto
Artistic Practice
Working primarily in sculpture, Magali Feuga creates human representations that feel both timeless and intimate. Drawing from cultural symbolism, mythology, imagined heritage, and personal narrative, her figures carry a quiet and contemplative stillness, at once ancestral and contemporary. Rather than functioning as portraiture, the sculptures emerge as evocative presences: silent forms from the past that suggest memory and human connection, without becoming fixed identities.
Using cardboard, paper, papier-mâché, natural fibres, discarded textiles, and reclaimed wooden elements, her practice embraces imperfection and transformation as integral parts of the creative process. Through these recycled, often overlooked materials, she explores cycles of fragility, resilience, repair, and renewal, allowing each surface to retain traces of its history and physical presence.
Each sculpture develops organically over time, guided as much by the inherent qualities of the materials as by intention itself. The materials are cut, shaped, assembled, and rebuilt, creating works that hold both vulnerability and strength.
The resulting pieces possess a raw yet poetic materiality, offering visual and tactile depth that invite into a space of reflection. Materials, form and memory converge, evoking something ancient, intimate, and profoundly 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