Emma Magenta | All The Times Music Saved My Life

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All The Times Music Saved My Life | 2026
59 x 89 cm (Artwork size)
75 x 104 cm (Frame size)
Mixed media on paper on board
Timber frame. signed

$2,800

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“All The Times Music Saved My Life”

This collection of individual works as a whole piece, is a wall of feelings around my experience of music as my own personal saviour. Music is my primary fixation and inspiration. I wanted to find a way to convey through drawing the sensory and ineffable reality of sound - like a kind of Synesthesia, where feelings, sound and body memory can cross over to line, colour and language in a sensory way for me.

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BIO
Emma Magenta

Outsider. Artist. Author. Director

Emma Magenta was born in Sydney and began her career drawing and writing her thoughts down on brown paper bags whilst working at a book shop in Paddington. After pinning the illustrative thoughts to the front window, they began to be noticed and revered. Soon she was offered a publishing deal, and her creative career began.

She has gone on to write and illustrate several adult picture books, mostly dealing with aspects of the female Psyche, and illustrate books for other prominent creatives such at Toni Collette.

Emma uses her left hand to paint and draw, as a way to tap into the present unconscious mind. Her works are created as an exercise of personal and public alchemy, dealing with contemporary issues associated with being human!

Emma Magenta’s works are held in collections all over Australia and the world.