Tim Maguire

In May Michael Reid Sydney will present our first major exhibition of new paintings by celebrated Australian painter, Tim Maguire.

Tim Maguire (b.1958) has been firmly established as one of the most important and original voices in Australian contemporary art for close to four decades. Across an internationally celebrated career that began in the early 1980s, his practice has consistently tested the boundaries between painting, printmaking and digital image-making, producing works of extraordinary impact, intensity and technical mastery.

Cinematic in scale and distinctive for their rich colouration and luminosity, Maguire’s paintings pull the viewer into a heightened field of looking – an effulgence of colour that may dissipate into pure sensation up close or cohere, at a distance, into impossible landscapes or hyper-floral tableaux. Working from fragmented or manipulated photographic source material, he has developed a singular approach informed by printmaking techniques, in which transparency, layering and lustre are central to an ongoing interrogation of surface, perception and the illusory alchemies of the painting process.

A selection of Tim Maguire paintings are now on view at Michael Reid Sydney. To make a viewing appointment please phone (02) 8353 3500 or email danielsoma@michaelreid.com.au