Magnus Westwell is a Scottish artist, director and multi-instrumentalist working with experimental composition, choreography and performance. Spanning the euphoric and desolate, Magnus Westwell’s work seeks to understand and express ineffable emotional states, transcending fragility, intimacy and catharsis in movement and sound.

Magnus Westwell is a Sadler’s Wells Young Associate alumni, and their work has reached venues, institutions and festivals across Europe and the UK, including Cafe OTO, Sadler’s Wells Theatre, Britten Pears Arts, London Short Film Festival, FOLD, Institute of the Arts Barcelona and Amsterdam Dance Event. Their digital work has been published and premiered across Nowness, Sadler’s Wells Digital Stage and FACT Magazine. Magnus Westwell developed interdisciplinary work - Sunder - which premiered to sold out audiences at Sadler’s Wells Theatre in October 2022; the soundtrack from the production was subsequently reworked, for release as an LP. In 2023, Magnus Westwell was commissioned by BUILDHOLLYWOOD for the opening of their new performance space in East London; Magnus developed a new 25 minute work - Broken Light Of My Heart - which premiered on the Autumn Equinox, supported with funding from Arts Council England. It was described by music journalist Emma Warren as “radical, momentous, thrilling and exceptionally moving”. Magnus Westwell has performed with Scratchproof Orchestra and BULLYACHE at Turner Contemporary, Barbican and Abbey Road Studios, and recently created ensemble arrangements for BULLYACHE - Who Hurt You? - to be performed at Elgar Concert Hall and Bold Tendancies. In 2024, Magnus Westwell was Artist in Residence at Britten Pears Arts and The Mandrake Hotel, developing a new full-length work with support from PRS Foundation.