MAGMA'S FIRST PRODUCT SHOP: NOW OPEN
09 September 2007 | interviews

Magma is re-launching its concept by opening a multi-purpose product shop in Covent Garden.

Typical scenario. You find yourself wondering through the streets of central London trying to find a present for a friend (or yourself, or both). You’re after something not outrageously expensive, something clever, tasteful, original, not kitsch, just a nice, simple idea. You walk in and out of hundreds of places selling jeans or trainers without being able to find anything remotely to your taste. What... 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

STRANGE PLACES, A PROFILE OF JOHNNY HARDSTAFF
20 May 2006 | interviews

This is a partly edited-out extract of an interview with seminal artist filmmaker graphic-designer Johnny Hardstaff for Graphic 9 – The Story.
Interview by Marc Valli

Marc: When one looks at your more recent work one almost feels like two dimensions are just not enough. Do you still work with print?
Johnny: Exactly that. Two dimensions are not enough in one sense. That was the whole issue for me. Throughout St. Martins I had been responding to graphic print projects three dimensionally. T... read more