His works contain a lightness and luminosity, and are paintings finely wrought for a thought-provoking means of aesthetic seduction. Quoted in Lakin S. Skip to main content. Slide Show Untitled Footnotes 1. Already a member? Sign in. Stay up to date with exhibition openings, closings, events and recommendations with our weekly emails. Favorite, save and share exhibitions.
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But up close, multiple layers of transparent paint and a fascinating combination of large brushstrokes and expressive splashes transport the viewer to another world. His practice also crosses printmaking, light box works and film which were included in that exhibition.
Travel has also been an essential part of his life as an artist and he has spent a large part of his adult years in Europe, especially the UK and France. He and his wife, artist Adrienne Gaha, now live and work between Australia and France. Created over the period of the recent Australian bushfires and the onset of coronavirus, the work took on an unexpected significance for the artist which he relates in this interview. We talk about his time studying in Europe, his early work, printmaking, his colour separation process and lots more.
In Germany, away from Australia for the first time, in an unfamiliar culture and not speaking German, he began painting self-portraits with the brush in his mouth, or drawing with his feet, or with his eyes closed, "as if handicapped, being linguistically disabled and culturally disconnected".
His loss of cultural identity led him to his Australian roots and an ironic series of landscapes featuring barbecues and water tanks in flood plains. Back in Sydney teaching part-time in the lates, he'd "reached the point where I'd painted myself into a corner and had to introduce something else". He began to look at 17th-century Flemish still lifes and realised "I could take a tiny square centimetre and blow it up and that the compositional possibilities of this seemed endless".
Such a work won him the prestigious Moet and Chandon prize in , the year after he'd moved to London with his young family, to pursue opportunities arising from his big exhibition at the Chisenhale Gallery, one of London's premier venues for contemporary art. It was the Moet and Chandon award that brought Maguire's renowned flowers and later fruit into the spotlight, but he is keen to point out that the objects he renders are merely a means to an end and that "painting itself is the subject matter".
His "model" or "sketch" is initially achieved by transferring details of his own digital photograph to computer, manipulating it, separating it into three constituent colour parts and printing it.
These "models'' are then painted onto canvas in separate transparent layers of oil colour.
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