Peter maloney mp

So Peter Maloney is a painter based in Canberra. He's been practising for many many years now. In the exhibition we have three large paintings and a series of works on paper. And they are threaded throughout the exhibition at different points.

The large paintings at the entrance space, the main one I'll probably talk about is Blue Danube which is the newest work, 2016, and it's a double panelled work. But over a number of years Peter has been working with abstraction and there was a certain point in his career, quite some time ago where he started to rethink the bold gestural brush strokes of abstract expressionism and he did work a little bit within that area.

He became increasingly interested in something, I guess as in converse to that, the expressive power and the graphic power of the really small discrete minute mark rather than the big gesture. So what he started doing was actually making little pen drawings, or just lines, little lines on sheets of paper which he then would photocopy. In his studio he has a p

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