POCKOSHKO AT MAGMA CLERKENWELL
18 September 2009 | exhibitions

Matryoshkas date from 1890, and are said to have been inspired by souvenir dolls from Japan. The story goes that a folk crafts painter called Sergei Maliutin, saw a set of Japanese wooden dolls representing Shichi-fuku-jin, the Seven Gods of Fortune and, inspired, drew a sketch of a Russian version of the toy which was then carved and painted. It consisted of eight dolls; the outermost was a girl holding a rooster, six inner dolls were girls, the fifth doll was a boy, the innermost – a baby.... read more

LOST IN THE POST BOOK LAUNCH
10 September 2008 | exhibitions

'Lost in the post' book launch at Magma Manchester

Kevin Boniface has been an Operational Grade Delivery Officer (postman) in Huddersfield for more than ten years. In this collection of 'dispatches ' from his rounds, set alongside photographs from the prize-winning Shaw and Shaw team, he paints a hilariously recognisable portrait of weekday life in an ordinary English town – as seen from the postman's eye view...

Jo and Christoph Shaw are two photographers based in Manchester who work toge... read more

PHIL ASHCROFT AKA PHLASH EXHIBITIONS & INTERVIEW
17 January 2007 | exhibitions

Phlash/Phil Ashcroft at Magma

Phil Ashcroft (aka Phlash) will brave rain, wind and possibly snow to paint the front of Magma Manchester.

Phlash/Phil Ashcroft creates canvasses and digital artwork inspired by his youthful obsessions with Star Wars, Judge Dredd and especially that period of British science fiction TV where the scenery wobbled.. Tom Baker era Dr Who, Blakes 7 and Space 1999. He paints weird post apocalyptic "chemical landscapes" and populates them with strange creat... read more

NOISE AT MAGMA
22 September 2006 | exhibitions

As part of noisefestival.com, the national showcase of the next generation of new creative talent, NOISE asked MAGMA to host a unique exhibition of NOISE artworks as selected by the editors of Graphic Magazine On the 26th September, just ahead of the launch of noisefestival.com, the national showcase for the best new creative talent. The show at Magma, Clerkenwell Rd, opens a month long exhibition of 200 original artworks from new NOISE artists across a whole range of disciplines ... read more

SCRAWL COLLECTIVE AT MAGMA
24 May 2006 | exhibitions

THE SCRAWL COLLECTIVE AT MAGMA

In case you wondered what had happened to them, well, check this is out.

Since the publication of their now highly collectible books (Scrawl: Dirty Graphics and  Scrawl Too, More Dirt) the artists in the collective have been thriving, maturing, traveling the world producing work and exhibiting, occasionally printing t-shirts and limited edition prints.

Scrawl Collective have been at the forefront of the urban art explosion since 1999, using the discip... read more