Paperback, full colour images, 31 pages, W232 x H290mm
Since his emergence as an artist in Australia during the 1980s, Tim
Maguire has worked in various ways to convey a refreshing philosophical
scepticism.
Earlier paintings and prints featured monuments dissolving into
their own reflections, vast landscapes blurring into mirage, often a
use of trompe l’oeil to undermine itself in works of art
where illusionism met transparency, until finally there were the
'flower paintings', in the 1990s, when arguably Maguire hit his stride.
These still-lifes provided an aesthetic means for the celebration of
beauty and an acknowledgement of inevitable corruption and relativity.
His later abstract paintings similarly, paradoxically, push and pull
the viewer between what is imagined and what is real.
Comprising digital prints and video of snow, water and flowers, this
exhibition marks a significant development in Maguire’s artistic
practice; the ephemerality of his subject matter is very familiar, but
the new medium adds new meanings.