Tim Maguire (b.1958)

Biography

1958 Born, Chertsey, England

Education

1980-82 Art Certificate and Higher Art Certificate, East Sydney Technical College
1983 Graduate Diploma in Painting, City Art Institute, Sydney
1984 Post-graduate studies, Sydney College of the Arts
1985 Kunstakadamie Dusseldorf (under Jan Dibbets)

Solo Exhibitions

1984 Intimate Dialogue, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1986 Monuments and Mirages, Greg Shephard Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island
1986 Terra Incognito, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1987 Et in Arcadia Ego, Philip Dash Gallery, New York
1988 Tim Maguire, Stadtgalerie, Esslingen am Neckar
1998 Tim Maguire, Flaxman Gallery, London
1998 The Nature of Things, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1989 Lapsis Linguae, Works on Paper 1984-1989, Chameleon
1989 Contemporary Art Space, Hobart
1989 Lux in Tenebris, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1990 Tim Maguire: Paintings and Works on paper, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
1990 Ex Nihilo, Flaxman Gallery London and Casa Veneta, Trieste
1991 Vita Breve, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1991 Tim Maguire: Lithographs 1987 - 1990, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1992 Canal, Chisenhale Gallery, London, and John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1993 Canal, Art Gallery of New South Wales and Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1993 Tim Maguire, Monoprints, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1993 Chisenhale Drawings, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1993 Tim Maguire, Recent Work: Brooke Fitzsimons, London
1994 Gallery Apunto, Amsterdam
1994 Hotel Chandon, Epernay
1994 Galerie Snoie, Rotterdam
1994 Mori Gallery, Sydney
1995 Jason and Rhodes Gallery, London
1995 Galerie Meile, Luzern
1995 Akademische Zichenhuis, Leiden
1995 Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
1996 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1996 Tim Maguire: Recent lithographs, Australian Print Workshop, Melbourne
1996 Mori Gallery, Sydney
1997 Last Days of the Comet, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
1997 Galerie Meile, Luzern
1997 Galerie Andreas Hecker, Cologne.
1997 Tolarno Galleries in conjunction with the 12^th Melbourne Festival
1997 Survey Exhibition 1987-1997, Australian Print Workshop Gallery, Melbourne
1998 Galerie Andreas Binder, Nice Art Fair, Nice
1998 New Paintings for the Projektraum, Projektraum, Berlin
1998 Mori Gallery, Sydney
1998 Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
1999 Galerie Meile, Luzern (October)
1999 Tolarno Galleries, The Moores Bldg, Freemantle, WA in conjunction with the Perth Festival
1999 Galerie Andreas Binder at Art Zurich
2000 Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
2000 Mori Gallery, Sydney
2000 Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich
2000 Recent Separation Paintings, Oxo Tower, London

Collaborative Exhibitions

1985 Chat (with Jarg Geismar), Galerie Krings-Ersnt, Cologne
1986 Second Nature (with Roger Crawford), Performance Space, Sydney

Selected Group Exhibitions

1983 Attitudes to drawing, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney; Penrith
1983 Regional Gallery, Penrith, New South Wales
1983 Bunker to Bunker: Six Artists from Betaville, Art Unit, Sydney
1983 (installation), Sydney College of the Arts, Sydney
1984 Last Supper at Eurunderee, (installation), Streetspace, Mark Foys Building, Sydney
1984 Last Past the Post-ism, Art Unit, Sydney
1985 Third Internation Drawing Trienniale, Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg: Neuen Galerie der Stadt, Linz, Austria
1985 The Most Beautiful Show in the World, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1985 Dad and Dave come to Town - 3 Australians in Dusseldorf, Neben der Sicherheit, Cologne
1985 True to Life, (performance), Topeninstitute, Dusseldorf
1986 New Image / abstraction, Philip Dash Gallery, New York
1986 Monumental Drawings, Contemporary Art Society, Adelaide
1986 Symbolism and Landscape, Biennale of Sydney Satellite exhibition, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1986 The Hand and the Photograph, Australian Centre of Photography, Sydney
1986 A Certain Likeness, Artspace, Sydney
1986 Oz Drawing Now, Holdsworth Contemporary Galleries, Sydne
1986 Recent Aquisitions of Australian Contemporary Art, Australian National Gallery, Canberra.
1986 One Day Show - 12 one day Shows, First Draft, Sydney
1986 Ballarat Invitational Exhibition, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
1987 Young Australians, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1987 Backlash - the Australian Drawing Revival, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
1987 A New Romance, Australian National gallery at the Australian National University, Drill Hall, Canberra
1987 Urban Anxieties: Australian Drawings of the 1980’s, Australian Nation Gallery, Drill Hall, Canberra
1987 Future Directions: Four Artists, Flaxman Gallery, London
1987 Voyage of Discovery - Contemporary Australian Art, Crescent Gallery, Houston
1987 Big Drawings, Canberra Contemporary Art Space, Canberra
1987 Mori Gallery at United Artists, United Artists, Melbourne
1988 Stories of Australian Art, Commonwealth Institute, London; Usher Gallery, Lincoln
1988 A New Generation 1983-88: The Philip Morris Arts grant, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988 Drawings in Australia: Drawings, Watercoloura and Pastels from 1770s to the 1980’s, Australian National Gallery, Canberra
1988 Homage to the Square, Flaxman Gallery, London
1988 The Face of Australia - the Land and the People, the Past and the Present, Ballarat Fine Art Gallery, Victoria
1988 Contemporary Prints, Pommeroy Purdy Gallery, London
1989 Irony, Humour and Dissent, Manly Regional Gallery, Sydney; Monash University Gallery, Melbourne
1989 Australian Perspecta, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
1989 Art and Nature, Flaxman Gallery, London
1989 En Serie, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1990 Adelaide Biennale of Australian Art, Art Gallery of South Australia
1990 L'Ete Australien a Montpellier, Musee Fabre and Galerie Saint-Ravy, Montpellier
1990 Architecture of Light, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1990 Paperworks, Flaxman Gallery, London
1990 Skies, Galleria Cristins Busi-Chiacari, Rome
1990 The Melbourne Savage Club Invitational Drawing Prize, R.M.I.T., Melbourne
1990 One Hundred Artists against Animal Experimentation, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
1990 Homage to the Square 2, Flaxman Gallery, London
1991 Contemporary  Australian Art, Deutscher Brunswick Street, Melbourne
1991 The Flower Show, Flaxman Gallery, London
1991 Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australian State galleries
1991 The Story so Far, Waverley City gallery, Melbourne
1992 Blast, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1992 The Temple of Flora, Waverley City Gallery,Melbourne; Elizabeth Bay House, Sydney, and Australian regional galleries
1992 Sulman Prize exhibition, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
1992 Contemporary Australian Painting, Westpac Gallery, Melbourne
1993 Prospect 93, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
1993 Approaches to the Sublime, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney
1993 Ipswich Regional Gallery, Queensland
1993 Translating Bunker to Bunker, Tin Sheds, Sydney University, Sydney
1993 Sssh, Mori Gallery, Sydney
1993 In Between, in conjunction with Adem Yilmaz and Jarg Geismar, Venice Biennale
1993 Mori Gallery at the Frankfurt Art Fair
1993 Tolarno Galleries at the Melbourne Contemporary Art Fair
1993 Tolarno Galleries at the Cologne Art Fair
1993 Moet et Chandon Touring Exhibition, Australian State galleries
1994 The John McCaughey Invitational Prize Exhibition, National Gallery of Victoria
1994 Prints, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1994 Gallery Apunto at the Amsterdam Art Fair
1994 Gallery Snoei at the Cologne Art Fair
1995 Cabinet paintings, Jason and Rhodes Gallery, London
1995 Gallery Snoei and Gallery Binder at the Cologne Art Fair
1995 Kunststucke,  Blumenstucke, Kunsthalle Beilefeld
1995 Gallery Meile at the Basel Art Fair
1996 Jason and Rhodes Gallery at the Stockholm Art Fair
1996 Gallery Meile at Basel Art Fair
1996 Flagging the Republic, Sherman Goodhope Gallery, Sydney, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
1996 Hidden Treasures, Art in Corporate Collections, S.H.Ervin Gallery at the National Trust of Australia, Sydney
1996 Food, The Performance Space, Sydney
1996 Summer Show, Galerie Meile, Luzern
1996 Contemporary Art Society Invitational Exhibition, London Art Fair
1996 Jason and Rhodes at the London Art Fair
1996 Galerie Binder, Galerie Meile and Tolarno Galleries at Art Koln
1996 Spirit and Place, Contemporary Australian Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
1997 Cokkie Snoei at the Amsterdam Kunstrai
1997 Funfair, Galerie Binder, Munich
1997 Angelus Novus, Galerie Sanguine, Paris
1997 Recent Aquisitions, National Gallery of Victoria
1997 Visy Board Art Prize, The Orangery, RichmondGrove Winery, Tanunda
1997 Galerie Andreas Binder and Galerie Meile at Art Koln
1997 Galerie Isen, Berlin Art Fair
1997 Still Life, Film Stills, Le Case D’ Arte, Milano
1998 Sets and Series, Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne
1998 Blondes, Gaha, Maguire, Galerie Cokkie Snoei, Rotterdam
1998 "La Peinture", Positionen zeitgenossischer Malerei, Mitchell Madison Group, Munich
1999 Tolarno Galleries at The Moore’s Building, Freemantle WA, in conjunction with The Perth Festival
1999 Mori Gallery at Art 1999 Chicago, Chicago, USA
1999 Galerie Andreas Binder, Art Koln
1999 Galerie Urs Meile, Art Koln
1999 Galerie Urs Meile, Art Basel
1999 Galerie Andreas Binder, Art Zurich
2000 Manifesto I, The Blue Gallery, London
2000 Sensational Painting, Tolarno Galleries at the Holmes a Court Gallery, Perth, WA
2000 Galerie Andreas Binder, Art Koln
2000 Galerie Urs Meile, Art Koln
2000 Tolarno Galleries at the Melbourne International Art Fair, Melbourne

Public and Corporate Collections

National Gallery of Australia
IBM Australia
National Gallery of Victoria
Conalco, UK
Art Gallery of New South Wales
Shell Australia
Art Gallery of Western Australia
BP Collection, Australia
Art Gallery of New South Wales
News Limited, Australia
Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
OTC Australia
Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nuremberg
Telstra Australia
Phillip Morris Arts Grant Collection,
National Gallery of Australia
Allen, Allen and Hemsley, (Sydney, London and New York Offices)
Ballarat Fine Art Gallery
Moet et Chandon, Epernay, France
Monash University Gallery
Federal Airports Corporation, Australia
Orange City Gallery
Zurich Insurance, Zurich
University of Sydney
Macquarie Bank, Sydney
Darwin College of Advanced Education
Australian Art Link
Griffrith Artworks, Brisbane
Westpac Bank Collection, New York
Deakin University
AMP Insurance, Sydney
University of Launceston, Tasmania
S.Potter Warburg, Sydney.
Queensland University of Technology
JMH Bank, Frankfurt
St Thomas’ Hospital, London
University of Melbourne
Akademisch Zichenhuis, Leiden
Siemens, Frankfurt
Derwent Collection, Tasmania
Porsche
Tamar Collection, Tasmania
Parliament House Collection, Canberra
Artbank, Australia

Awards

1981 The Rural Bank Painting Prize, Sydney
1984 Peter Brown Memorial Scholarship, Australia Council.
1985 Jury Prize, Internationale Drawing Triennale, Nuremberg
1986 Hugh Williamson Award, (Best Male Emerging Artist), Ballaarat
1989 Dobell Prize for Painting, Art gallery of New South Wales
1993 Moet et Chandon Australian Art Fellowship

Commissions

1992 Alice Springs Airport, Australian Federal Airports Authority
1995 Four Mural Paintings, M/S Veendam, Holland America Line
1998 Paintings for Holland America Line
2000 Paintings for Holland America Line

Bibliography - selected reviews

Arthur McIntyre, The Age, Melbourne, August 1984
Terence Maloon,"Remnants of Vanished Time",The Sydney Morning Herald,1985
Channing Gray,"Monuments and Mirages",Providence Journal, Providence, R.I., September 1985
Peter Ward, The Australian, 19 February 1996
Terence Maloon, The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 June 1986
Bill van Seiclen,  Providence Journal-Bulletin, October 1986.
Bruce Adams, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 August 1986
John McDonald, The Sydney Morning Herald, August 1987
Vivian Raynor, The New York Times, 5 June 1987
Larry Berryman, Arts Review, London, 23 October 1987
Jonathon Watkins, "Tim Maguire’s Vision", Australian Art Monthly, Canberra, May 1988
Sarah Kent, Time Out, 6 April 1988
Michael Archer, Art Monthly, Canberra 1988
Karen Bauer, Esslingen Zeitung, 4 November, 1988
Larry Berryman, Arts Review, London, 8 April 1988
Sonia Barron, The Canberra Times, 20 June, 1988
Christopher Allen, "The Idea of Care",  The Sydney Review, June 1989  
Marco Marron, "Historicism and Spiritualism", Proxin, July 1989
Robert Rooney, The Weekend Australian, 5-6 August, 1989
Carole Hampshire, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2 November 1989
Christopher Allen, The Sydney Morning Herald, November 1989
Edward Colless, "Australian Perspecta 1989", Eyeline, Brisbane, 10 December 1989
John McDonald, The Adelaide Review, April 1990
Sue Hubbard, Time Out, London, 13 -20 June 1990.
Larry Berryman, Arts Review, London, 1 June 1990
Michel Buthor, L’Evenement du Jeudi, Paris, 9 -15 August, 1990
Gary Catalano, The Age, Melbourne, 14 November, 1990
Robert Rooney, The Weekend Australian, 17 -18 November, 1990
Luca Loredon, Il Piccolo, 4 December, 1990
David Lillington, Time Out, London, 17 -24 July, 1991
Robert Rooney, The Weekend Australian, 11-12 October, 1991
William Harvey, "Sexy Slashes at the Chisenhale", City Limits, London, 20-27 August, 1992
Larry Berryman, Arts Review, London, August 1992
Rose Jennings, Time Out, London, 12 - 19 August, 1992
Margo Osborne, "Blind tasting", Art Monthly Australia, 1993
Unknown, "Good year for group artists", The Sunday Age, 6 June 1993
Christopher Heathcote, The Age, Melbourne, 9 June 1993
Felicity Fenner,"Maguire’s New Crop Blooms", The Sydney Morning Herald, 4 November, 1994
Elwyn Lynn, "Blooming Sensuality", The Australian, 19 -20 November, 1994
Giles Auty, The Spectator, London, April 1995
Maria Vogel, Luzerner Zeitung, 27 October 1995
Felicity Fenner,, "Orchestrating Virtuosity", The Sydney Morning Herald, 20 March 1993
Terry Ingram, "Frankfurt connect with phonecard collectors", Australian Financial Review, 6 May 1993
Felicity Fenner, "Beyond the illusion", The Sydney Morning Herald, 1993
Annabel Frost, "Pause for Refreshment", Australian Country Style, August 1993
Kit Messham-Muir, "Champagne Comedy", Honi Soit, No 19, 24 August 1993, p26
Brook Turner, "Treasures of the boardroom", The Sydney Morning Herald, 1995
Estelle Lovatt, Tim Maguire at Jason & Rhodes, Southern Cross, 10 May 1995
Willi Burgi, Apero, LNN, Luzern, 26 October, 1995
Kurt Beck, LNN/ZN, 14 November, 1995
Birgit Sonna, Munchener Zeitung, 1995
Peter Ward, The Australian Magazine, 6 - 7 January, 1996
Miriam Stoppard, Financial Times, London, 14 January, 1996
Peter Timms, "Fruitful look at history", Herald Sun, Melbourne, March 13, 1996
Robert Nelson, "Fragile subject made monumental in detail", The Age, 20 March 1993
Virginia Trioli, "In love with the tactile", The Sydney Morning Herald,18 April 1996
Helen Musa, Canberra Times, 13 June 1996, p4
Paul Chai, "Emerging Artists", Macquarie bank Magazine, June 1996
Sasha Grishin, "The people’s house of art", Canberra Times, 27 June 1996
Virginia Trioli, The Age,  Melbourne, 17 April, 1996
Bruce James, The Sydney Morning Herald, 29 November, 1996
Rebecca Lancashire, "Reluctant romantic", The Age, 4 November 1997
Chris Boyd, The Australian Financial Review, 1-2 November 1997
Julie Cotter, Eyeline No 35, Summer 1998
Jacques Gantie, "Art Jonction a Nice : retours sur images", Nice Matin, May 1998
Erik Hagoort, "Nature as an Apparition",De Volkskrant, Rotterdam, 17 June 1998
Sebastian Smee, "Maguire registers on the Richter scale", The Sydney Morning Herald, 16 September 1998
Janine Metz, "Die luft ist raus", Berliner Morgenpost, Berlin, 23 June 1998
Barbara Rollmann, "Weintrauben aus dem Computer", Suddeutsche Zeitung, No 273, 26 November 1998.

Catalogues, Articles and Books

John McDonald, Second Nature, (ex. Cat.), Sydney, Performance Space, January 1986
Susan Hunt, A Certain Likeness,(ex.cat.), Art Space, Sydney, 1986
Eloise Lindsay, Terra Incognito, (ex.cat), Mori Gallery, Sydney, 1986
Eloise Lindsay, "Terra Incognito", On The Beach, Sydney, Spring 1986
Timothy Morrell, "Big Drawings", Art and Australia, Sydney, Spring 1986
Ian Burn, Symbolism and Landscape, (ex.cat.), Sydney, June 1986
Ted Gott, Backlash - the Australian Drawing Revival 1976-1986, (ex.cat.), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, 1987
Timothy Morrell, "Art and Ideas", Artlink, Adelaide, 1986
John Macphee, "A New Romance", (ex.cat.) Canberra, Australian National Gallery, 1987
John McDonald, "Et in Arcadia Ego", Phillip Dash Gallery, New York, 1987
Robert Lindsay, Young Australians- The best of Young Australia" (ex.cat), Melbourne, Powell Street Gallery, July 1987
John Walsh, Urban Anxieties: Australian Drawings of the 1980’s (ex.cat) Canberra, Australian National Gallery, August 1987
Janet MacKenzie, Drawing in Australia, Melbourne, MacMillan, 1987
David Hansen The Face of Australia: The Land and the People: The Past and Present, (ex.cat), Sydney Australian Bicentennial Authority, 1988, p89 illus
Jonathon Watkins, Stories of Australian Art,(ex.cat) , London, March 1988
Alexander Tolnay, Tim Maguire, (ex.cat), Esslingen am Neckar, Germany, Galerie der Stadt, 1988
Arthur MacIntyre, Australian Contemporary Drawing: Resurgence and Redefinition, Brisbane, Boolarong Publications, 1988, illus pp94-5
Peter Quartermaine and Jonathon Watkins, A Pictorial History of Australian Painting, London, Bison Books, 1989
Jonathon Watkins, En Serie, (ex.cat) Southampton University, July 1989
Edward Colles, Australian Perspecta 1989, (ex.cat.) Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, 1989, p64-5 illus
Alison Carroll, Irony, Humour and Dissent (ex.cat.) Sydney, Manly Regional Gallery, 1989
Jonathon Watkins, Art and Nature, (ex.cat.) London, Flaxman Gallery, 1990
Billy Crawford, TwoTanks, Adelaide Biennial of Australian Art, (ex.cat.) Adelaide, Art Gallery of South Australia, 1990, pp 64-5 illus
Billy Crawford and Tim Maguire, Tim Maguire: Ex Nihilo (ex.cat.) London, Tim Maguire and the Visual Arts Board of the Australia Council 1990
Anna Johnson, "Tim Maguire", Interior Architecture and Design,  Sydney, Spring 1990
Jonathon Watkins, Canal, (ex.cat) Chisenhale Gallery, London 1992
Terence Maloon, "The Painter from Sublime Point", Canal , Chisenhale Gallery, London 1992
Adrian Searle, "Tim Maguire", Tim Maguire, (ex.cat.) Moet et Chandon, Epernay 1994
Eloise Lindsay, " The Lure", Tim Maguire, Moet et Chandon, Epernay, 1994
Eloise Lindsay, Art and Australia, Spring, 1994
Maria Vogel, "Illusion and Reality", Tim Maguire,(ex.cat.) Galerie Binder, Galerie
Meile, Tolarno Galleries and Tim Maguire, 1996
Peter Timms, "Reluctant Romantic", (ex. Cat), Wools of New Zealand & Tolarno Galleries, Melbourne 1997