Tim Maguire currently lives and works as a painter and printmaker in Australia, France and the United Kingdom. In 1985 he studied at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, and earlier, he studied painting at both Sydney College of the Arts and The City Art Institute.
It was during the 1990s that Tim first developed the flower paintings for which he is perhaps best known. These works, depicting individual flowers magnified to an extreme cinematic flower-scape, are investigations into a very traditional subject matter. Yet unlike earlier artists who have explored similar themes such as Van Gogh or Monet, Maguire paints in a way that re-invents his subject and alters the way it is viewed from the everyday. Although commanding in scale, Tim’s paintings communicate an intimate love of his subject matter. He is most famous for his signature practice of combining digital images with a painterly, multi-layered process to create large-scale oil paintings. Through his cropped floral paintings he has perfected a three-colour separation process to create a memorable and vibrant body of work.
Tim has won six major art prizes, the most important being the Moët and Chandon Fellowship in 1993, which led to him settling in France. He has exhibited extensively in Europe and Australia for more than two decades and recent exhibitions include solo shows in 2009 at New York’s Von Lintel Gallery and at Auckland’s, Gow Langsford Gallery. Recent group exhibitions include “Everything Changes”, Shanghai University Gallery, Shanghai, 2009, and “Optimism”, at the Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, 2008.
His work is held in numerous private and corporate collections both overseas and in Australia. Public collections include the National Gallery of Australia, the Art Gallery of New South Wales, the National Gallery of Victoria, the Art Gallery of South Australia, and the Art Gallery of Western Australia.
TIM MAGURIE