She's a Canberra girl who left for the bright lights of London, where she worked as a curator and writer for nine years.
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And now, Magda Keaney has come full circle, and has just been appointed Artistic Director of the Canberra Glassworks.
She's been acting in the role for the past six months, and has, in the interim, published a book, Fashion Photography Next, in London and launched an accompanying exhibition in Amsterdam.
But now, having been lured back to the less frenetic pace of Canberra's creative scene in 2012 to head up, briefly, the Gallery of Australian Design, she'll be staying put at one of the city's youngest arts institutions.
Her new position at the seven-year-old Glassworks was most recently filled by the prolific glass artist Clare Belfrage, who left in late 2013.
Ms Keaney studied art history at the Australian National University, and curatorial studies at Melbourne University before returning to Canberra to work at the National Gallery of Australia in the mid-1990s.
She worked under the then curator of Australian drawings Andrew Sayers, and followed him to the National Portrait Gallery which was then located at Old Parliament House.
She curated several shows and developed a love of photography, which took her to London to take up a fellowship at the Victoria and Albert Museum.
She ended up staying in England for nine years, completing her studies at the Couthauld Institute of London and working at a photography agency to pay her way.
She soon got a job at the National Portrait Gallery in London, where she worked for six years, before being appointed creative director of Fashion Space Gallery at the London College of Fashion.
It was plain old homesickness that brought her back to Canberra in 2012, and now she's decided to stay on at the Glassworks.
"I am thrilled to have been appointed, and it's great timing because next week we open my first show here, Glass X Design, which combines some of my new knowledge of glass with my ongoing design interests," she said.
"The depth of talent in contemporary Australian glass and design is just so incredible, so it's been a dream project."
She will hold the position part-time while she completes a PhD at the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at ANU.
She said she was thrilled to have found yet another reason to settle back in her hometown.
"I'm one of those people who, having lived away for some time, is constantly pinching myself at how fabulous this place is," she said.
"I feel lucky to be able to continue to live and work here."