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Brown Gift Box with Sublimatable Ceramic Tile, size 5 1/2"x 5 1/2"x 2 1/4"
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A woman leans on a ship's railing looking out to sea. The sun is setting and nears the horizon. An albatross keeps company with the ship moving within her sphere of view, whilst in the distance at the other end of the gangway a man leans on the wall and watches. People have a degree of anonymity on ships - and in other modes of travel; they are dislocated from all that is reassuring and familiar and subjected to a new regime of order. They are further restricted by the inhibition of their movement. In such circumstances people encounter relationships which may be transitory, fleeting and which may cause them to reach beyond their natural conduct. In this case, the passengers are far from home and headed to distant places in many senses.
About Mark Maguire
I was born in Liverpool and was educated at the University of Manchester, Swansea University and the Polytechnic of Wales where I studied History, Philosophy and Intellectual and Art History (MA). I have lived and worked in Ireland, Germany, Holland and the UK as a barman, labourer, soldier, Aircraft sealer, Trade Marks Examiner, Ministerial Policy Adviser in Trade & Industry (London), Head of International Relations at the Welsh Office and Principal Private Secretary to the Presiding Officer at the National Assembly for Wales.
I left the Civil Service in 2005 and dedicated myself to art and writing. My large, vibrant and luminous paintings are metaphysical in approach and, as with my writing, personal and intense. They frequently convey contemporary urban realism in a ruined, isolated or detached landscape. The figures in them are always captive watchers of their environment or circumstances, trapped by their inability to communicate. I call these works "narrative" because what is important in the paintings is what happens before or after the moment depicted - the viewer must move beyond the canvas to ascertain this. My smaller paintings are "etudes", conceived as intimate studies of the mood and condition of individuals. They are almost always painted in blue.