ABOUT
Background & Journey
Magali Feuga is a French Australian visual artist based on the Sunshine Coast, Australia. Her practice centres on figurative sculpture and mixed media works that explore identity, memory, and the enduring relationship between humanity and the natural world.
Her artistic sensibility was shaped by an unconventional upbringing, spending much of her childhood travelling aboard a sailboat. Early encounters to different cultures, landscapes, and ways of living fostered a lasting curiosity for human expression and connection.
She later studied art in Nice, France, before pursuing a creative life shaped by extensive travel and work as a chef—experiences that continue to inform her richly layered, tactile approach to making. After settling in Australia in 2018, she returned fully to her artistic practice, with sculpture emerging as her primary mode of expression.
Magali currently works from her Sunshine Coast studio, where her practice is guided by slowness, material sensitivity, and a deep respect for the narrative held within each form.
Artistic Practice
Working primarily with sculpture, Magali creates evocative figures that feel both timeless and intimate. Using cardboard, paper, paper mâché, natural fibres, discarded fabric, and found materials, her process embraces imperfection, texture, and transformation. These material choices are integral to the work, reflecting cycles of fragility, resilience, and renewal.
Her figures often carry a quiet, meditative presence — part ancestral, part contemporary — drawing from mythology, cultural symbolism, and personal narrative. Through these forms, Magali explores themes of belonging, vulnerability, and the subtle dialogue between inner and outer worlds.
At the heart of her work is a desire to create figures that feel emotionally resonant rather than illustrative. Her sculptures are not portraits in the traditional sense, but presences — quiet witnesses that invite contemplation and introspection.
Each piece is made slowly and intuitively, allowing the work to evolve through process rather than prescription. Offering both visual and tactile engagement, her work draws viewers into a quiet space of reflection — where form, memory, and material come together to suggest something both ancient and deeply human.
EXHIBITIONS & AWARDS
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
2026
Curious World of Peculiar Dolls, Poetic Tiger Gallery
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, featured artist, 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
Face To Face, solo exhibition, Pomona Railway Station, Pomona
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
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
The AU review – Aussie Indie Artists Q&A series – May 2025
Hello Sunshine Magazine – Art & Design – 2023 Winter Issue
Arts Hub 2023 article: Sculpture on the Edge promises an immersive experience