Peter Maloney, Living National Trash

Peter Maloney NATIONAL LIVING TRASH 5 - 26 March 2022

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National Living Trash is Peter Maloney’s 27th solo exhibition.

Maloney has exhibited nationally and internationally for over four decades. His works extend across a wide range of media, working through abstraction and photo montage throughout his career.

His latest body of work is an accumulation of his artistic practice relating Australia’s social history as well as his own.

This exhibition sees Maloney continue his ongoing dialogue with abstraction and the intangible. Concentrating on text and high key colour with an added splash of humour.

The seemingly spontaneous and expressive line works are in fact deeply focused and meticulously drawn, sometimes involving text. The high key contrast colours, in otherwise dark, dramatic paintings bring his sense of humour to the fore.

National Living Trash is an exhibition which shows Peter Maloney’s own history through the art.

cat. 1, Trapezius In Relief, 2021, acrylic on polyester, 71 x 71cm

cat. 2, Don’t Blink, 2020, acry

yllic on polyester, 71 x 71 cm

cat. 3, Wet Yellow Marine, 2020, acrylic on polyester, 71 x 71cm

cat. 4, Crackle, 2019, acrylic on polyester, 71 x 71 cm

cat. 5, Drain Away, 2020, acr

rylic on polyester, 71 x 71cm

cat. 6, 2 Bleeding Swimmers, 2021, acrylic on polyester, 71 x 71cm

cat. 7, Soft Cotton (for Lynne), 2021, acrylic on polyester, 160 x 122 cm

cat. 8, As Black As It’s Painted, 2022, acrylic on polyester, 102 x 78 cm

cat. 9, Dry Icicles, 2021, acrylic on polyester, 100 x 75 cm

cat. 10, Yellow Sex Canal, 2021, acrylic on polyester, 102 x 78 cm

cat. 11, Pale Green Felt, 2021, a

acrylic on polyester, 102 x 78 cm

cat. 12, Honey South, 2021, acrylic on polyester, 102 x 78 cm

cat. 13, Red Pistol Tunnels, 2021, acrylic on polyester, 102 x 78 cm

cat. 14, Alien Blood, 2021, acr

rylic on polyester, 102 x 78 cm

cat. 15, Black Hold, 2021, acrylic on polyester, 102 x 78 cm

cat. 16, Abject Secretion, 2020, acrylic on polyester, 71 x 71 cm

cat. 17, Encyclopaedic Fishery, 2019, acrylic on polyester, 188 x 130 cm

cat. 18, Snake Seeds, 2019, acrylic on polyester, 184 x 123 cm

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