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Artist Statement:
My goal in painting is to create images that are humourous and/or interesting or else beautiful and a pleasure to behold. I like to tell stories with my cartoon images. You can see more art on my website www.maxey.co.nz
I think that there is high value in art that clearly communicates something useful to the viewer and that, if it is necessary to read an explanation of an artwork in order to understand it, then it has largely failed.
I have always been very interested and involved in art. My parents are both artistic and musical, and this inspired me to paint and draw from a very early age. Even while at university studying geography, I spent much of my spare time drawing, and deriving supplementary income from artistic endeavours. I have a very wide range of experiences and knowledge to draw from, and want to incorporate these into my art to produce work that interests and excites both the audience and myself.
My goals are to secure exhibitions in public Galleries, and to exhibit outside New Zealand. Late in 2008, I travel to the Grand Canyon to kayak the Colorado River and to take photographs ...
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Artist Galleries:
Exhibitions Gallery
154 Featherston St, Wellington
+64 4 499 6356
ron@exhibitionsgallery.co.nz
www.exhibitionsgallery.co.nz
Fishers Galleries
134 Victoria St, Christchurch, New Zealand
+64 3 379 6718
chch@fishergalleries.co.nz
www.fishersfinearts.co.nz
Art of this World
1 Queens Pde, Devonport, Auckland
+64 9 446 ...
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Artist Reviews:
Coming Soon!
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Collections:
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Commissions:
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Exhibitions for Timon Maxey:
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Previous exhibitions:
April 2008 Exhibitions Gallery, Wellington: New Zealand's Favourite Artists Exhibition
December 2007 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Christmas exhibition featuring four 50 x 50cm prints
July 2007 Moray Gallery, Dunedin: Limited edition prints
April 2007 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Limited Edition prints in Wellington theme exhibition
December 2006 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Christmas exhibition featuring cartoon paintings
April 2006 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Cubist paintings of Wellington in Wellington theme exhibition
December 2005 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Christmas exhibition featuring small cubist works
2004 McGregor Wright Gallery: cubist scenes of Wellington
June 2003 Cartoon Exhibition at Central Art Gallery, Queenstown
March 2003 McGregor Wright Gallery: cubist scenes of Wellington
January 2003 Fishers Fine Art Gallery: cubist scenes of Auckland and its environs
July 2002 Brava: Timon Maxey Paintings - a mixture of Wellington/NZ cubist scenes and cartoon paintings February 2002 BAM: Furthermore - humorous predicaments: Cartoon paintings
February 2001 Brava: Pum - humorous predicaments: Cartoon paintings
April 2001 Artrageous, Martinborough
March 2001 Tamarillo: Cartoon paintings
February 2001 at Brava: Pum - humorous predicaments: Cartoon paintings
September 2000 at Brava: Veek - humorous predicaments: Cartoon paintings
1994 at The Globe: Screen printed banners
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