maga esberg MA(RCA)
 

RESIDENCIES, COMMISSIONS, AWARDS

2014- now, Residency, Wytham Woods, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

2022 and 2023 Residency AADK. Spain

2018 Residency, AireValpo, Chile

2016 Residency, Eloge du Voyage Lent, Festival du Roc Castel, France

2003 Commission, Blast Festival, Gloucester, Secret Histories, Installation and workshop, Gloucester, UK

2001 Commission, Bath International Music Festival, Thierry Pecou, UK Leader Digital workshop, Duckspool, Somerset, UK

2000 Bursary, 'A sense of place, a sense of self' study trip to Cuba

Bursary, Digital workshop, PVA, Bridport, Dorset, UK

1998 Commission, Art for Life, Hotbath Gallery, Bath, UK

1998/99 Residency, Diagnostic Imaging Department, Musgrove Park Hospital, Somerset, UK

1993 Commission, Focal Point Gallery, Chimera for SIGNALS Festival, Essex, UK

1993 Erasmus grant, Copenhagen Graphics School, Denmark

1992 RCA Studio exchange at ARCO, Lisbon, Portugal

1990 First Prize Winner, South Bank Photo Competition, Point of View, London, UK

CURATING

2021 HATCHED2021 Photo Oxford Festival @ OVADA
2021 HATCHED2021 Oxford International Women Festival /International Women’s Day 2021.
https://www.kunstmatrix.com/en/hatched2021
2020 HATCHED2020 part of OWIF & IWD 2020 @hatched_magaesberg/
2019 HATCHED 2019 part of the International Day of the Girl Child, Oxford,UK
2018 HATCHED2018, part of OWIF & IWD, The Jam Factory, Oxford, UK
2017 HATCHED2017 part of OWIF & IWD, The North Wall Gallery, Oxford,
2016 HATCHED2016 part of OWIF & IWD, Freud’s, Oxford, UK

2015 BLOG: POSITIVE IMAGES WOMEN 2015
http://positiveimageswomen2015.tumblr.com/

EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS

 

2023
AADK, Spain, Open Studio, Blanca, Murcia

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2022
AADK, Spain, Open Studio, Blanca, Murcia
HATCHED2021, Oxford Photo Festival, Extended family, Blue Beard, OVADA, Oxford, UK 

2020 Brighton Photofringe, Extended family, Take Make, online

2018 Solo show, WOODS/ star at the Saw Mill, Wytham Woods, Oxford University, UK

2017

HATCHED2017, IT ('S A ) GIRL ! The North Wall, Oxford, UK

Format Photography Festival, HOME, The Heart Grows Fonder, Miniclick, UK
Solo Show, University of Oxford, Curiosity Carnival, UK

2016 HATCHED2016, Anna, Fiona, Natasha, Freud’s, Oxford, UK

2915 Miniclick, I/LAND, The Heart Grows Fonder One Planet City, online

2014 Brighton Photofringe, Brighton, UK

2013 La pluie peut-être, Video, Shed, Oxford, UK
https://vimeo.com/66822742

2012 Oxford Brookes University, School of Arts, Public domain, Oxford, UK
https://www.blurb.com/b/3004796-public-domain

2011 OVADA, Christmas Lights, Town Hall, Video Installation, Oxford, UK

2008 Broken Dreams
https://www.blurb.com/books/574023-broken-dreams

2004

Open, London
Waterloo Gallery, Common Ground, London
Unit 2 John Cass School of Art, Broken Dreams, London, UK
Solo Show, Blast Festival, Gloucester Folk Museum, When I was young I used to walk with my head up, Gloucester, UK

London Metropolitan University, Havana, London

2003
Activate, London Metropolitan University 
The Enigma, Memory in Perspective, Helen Chapman, Nexus

2002 Metro Cinema Gallery, Havana, Part of the Latin American Film Festival, London, UK

2000 Hotbath Gallery, Art for Life, End of Residency exhibition, Bath, UK

1998
Solo Show, Taunton & Somerset Hospital Gallery, ‘Art for Life’ Taunton, UK
Solo Show, Fototeca de Cuba, Within Walls, Havana, Cuba

The Photographer’s Gallery, Citibank Private Bank Photography Collection as part of the Citibank Photo Prize, London, UK
The Trade Apartment, Within Walls, London, UK

Photofusion Gallery, Within Walls, London, UK

Derwent Valley Holding’s Moreland/Architecture Week, The Changing Face of London, UK

1997 Solo Show, Hanbury Studios, work from Cuba, London, UK

1996

www.staffs.ac uk/ariadne

Whitechapel Open Studios, 49 Hanbury Studio, London, UK

1995

Maclaurin Art Gallery, FOTOFEIS Chimera/ an exploration of fantasy, Ayr, Scotland, UK
Tabernacle Gallery, Street Photography, Tabernacle Gallery,
London Fringe Festival OutPost, Venice Art Biennale, Italy

South London Gallery, Southwark Open, London

1994

Focal Point Gallery, SIGNALS International Festival of Women

Photography, Chimera/ an exploration of Fantasy Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK

Staffordshire University Gallery, Resourceful Women, Stoke-on Trent, Open Window Gallery, Metropolis, London, London, UK

1993

Solo Show Fotographisk gallery, Landscapes within, Copenhagen, DK
The Studio, Beckenham, The Big Apple London, UK

London Guildhall University, The Big Apple, London, UK

Norwich Arts Centre, Five Go Mad in Norwich, Norwich, UK

1992

Zelda Cheatle Gallery, The Big Apple London Guildhall
University, EX, London, UK
Catalogue for the Chimera/ an exploration of Fantasy exhibition, Focal Point Southend-on-Sea, part SIGNALS International Festival of Women Photography, Essex, UK

1991

Kentro Technis, Under a Foreign Light, Athens, Greece

South Bank Photo Show, Contact, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK

1990

Metro Cinema Gallery, Elements, London, UK
Camerawork, Home, London, UK
Riverside Studios, Open ’90, London, UK

South Bank Photo Show, Royal Festival Hall, Point of View, London, UK

FREELANCE DOCUMENTARY WORK

2008

Associate Producer ‘Back In’- The Media Trust- 1 X 12


Shooting Producer/ Director ‘Layers’

Barry Cooper- mmfilms 1 X 5

Production Assistant ‘ The return’- Peter J Walsh Films 1 X 15

Shooting/Producer/ Director, Editor, 'Juan Vazquez Martin Pintor Abstracto',

Shooting/Producer/ Director/Editor ‘ Shootback is 10’- mmfilms 1 x5

2007

Associate Producer ‘ Mad for Music’ – The Community Channel 3X5

First Director Assistant- “ Winston’s Wish” – The Media Trust- 1 X 1

2006

Shooting PD/ Editor- “ LAWRS”- 1 X 8 mmfilms


Shooting PD/ Editor - “ Colourscape”- 1 X 5 mmfilms


Producer/ Director/ Editor “Nelly Dimitranova”- 1 X 5mmfilms

Shooting AP- “ Britain in Bloom”- The Community Channel- 1 X 30

2005 Assistant Producer – “ Mad for Poetry” – The Community Channel

EDUCATION

1993 M A in Photography, Royal College of Art, London

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CONTACT

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magaesberg@gmail.com