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Tim Maguire

Tim Maguire (Born 1958) is active/lives in Australia, United Kingdom.  Tim Maguire is known for Painting.

Tim Maguire is represented by Martin Browne Contemporary, Sydney and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne. The quince, close cousin to the apple and pear, has proven a rich motif throughout the history of western painting, and in particular, within the Dutch vanitas style of the 16th and 17th centuries.


Intended as reminders of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death, the quince itself is associated with marriage, fertility though also bitterness with their flesh hard and inedible. Like the vanitas theme which preoccupied the Dutch, Tim Maguire displays fruit which concurrently has a real and metaphysical value.


We are beguiled and seduced whilst the painting simultaneously generates meaning beyond the exact realism of its subject. Immersive in their cinematic scale and technical achievement, Maguire's diptych paintings shift our focus from the subject of the painting to the object itself. The compositio   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1704 characters.]  Artist bio

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