Mornington Peninsula Works on Paper Award
Peter Maloney
Temporary agistment, 2020
Peter Maloney is a contemporary Australian artist represented in significant public and private collections.
Maloney’s compelling imagery is the result of 40 years of arts practice incorporating audio, collage, painting, photography and video.
The hybrid nature of his work is intentionally confounding, visually paraphrasing the promiscuous use of multi-media utilised by provocateur, William Burroughs. Just as Burroughs declined to be categorised as an author in the conventional sense, time and again Maloney resists straightforward critical assessment by shape-shifting the forms of his practice.
The hybrid nature of his work is intentionally confounding, visually paraphrasing the promiscuous use of multi-media utilised by provocateur, William Burroughs. Just as Burroughs declined to be categorised as an author in the conventional sense, time and again Maloney resists straightforward critical assessment by shape-shifting the forms of his practice.
In terms of such transmutation, Maloney’s Temporary agistment, 2020, is unequivocally a triptych – a group of related concepts in discourse with each other across three panels. The work is identifiably part of Maloney’s larger project and incorporates conceptual, textual, gestural and representational elements. Temporary agistment channels the artist’s queer sensibility through the lens of declarative tabloid headlines, while also referencing the atmospherics of more lyrical gestural abstraction.
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