The paintings of Newcastle-based artist Paul Maher inhabit the edges between spaces – the compact and the empty, the urban and the untamed.
Drawn to places where people manipulate an urban environment, where they express themselves, often without intent; here, the traces people leave behind inspire paintings that tell us something about ourselves. In Coastal dwelling, lack of resolution and looseness is used in the painted surface – to blur the lines between complex architectural forms and tangled bushland or modestly built structures on the water’s edge.
Paul Maher, Frangipani dinghy, oil on canvas, 58 × 47cm (framed). Courtesy the artist and Straitjacket, New South Wales
Straitjacket
29 March to 20 April 2025
New South Wales
