Tim Maguire, Untitled

Tim Maguire, Untitled (Horizontal Column) 1987

Biography:

Tim Maguire’s paintings are cinematic in scale and distinctive for their rich colouration and technical skill.  Giant flowers and golden fruit resonate from ambiguous backgrounds.  The work is sumptuous, romantic. Dr Shaune Lakin, Head Curator, International Art at National Gallery of Australia argues that Maguire’s painting is “both historical and contemporary”. But these modes “do not exactly co-exist… they rub up against each other.”

Cropped like film stills and referencing 17th-century Flemish still-life painting, his work melds digital imagery with commercial printing techniques.  Using digital photographs as source material for his oil paintings, he applies colour separation techniques – not unlike those used in commercial printing – which blur the distinction between the digital and the handcrafted.  Only upon close inspection is it apparent that the images show traces of the human hand, with betraying drips and splotches purposefully introduced to disrupt photographic perfection.

Winning the prestigious Moet and Chandon Fellowship in 1992 which brought him to France in 1993, where he stayed for the following decade. Since then, he has lived and worked in Paris and London, and currently divides his time between Sydney and South-West France.

Tim Maguire has exhibited consistently and extensively throughout Australia and Europe since 1983.  His art practice has benefitted from consistent and professional primary market representation both here within Australia and internationally; additionally, representation in international art fairs has also enhanced his market profile.

Maguire’s work is represented in numerous state, public, institutional and corporate collections throughout Australia and internationally. In addition to all the major state and public museums nationwide, and key corporate collections within Australia, Maguire is also represented in Deutsche Bank (London), Zurich Insurance (Zurich), The British Museum (London) and JMH Bank (Frankfurt).[1]

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Godfrey,T., Watkins, J., & Blanchett, C, Tim Maguire, monograph, Piper Press, 2007

[1] Godfrey,T., Watkins, J., & Blanchett, C, Tim Maguire, monograph, Piper Press, 2007

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