Maloney works with a fusion of vibrant and electric colours, line and shapes to create paintings with a dialogue of layers that hum with energy. He further explores this mash-up through text-based works on paper. Newspaper clippings of old headlines are painted, torn and cut, and rearranged over fields of swirling lines. Taking influence from Dada poetry and the cut-ups of William Burroughs, Maloney’s cryptic statements read with equal amounts of humour and the macabre.
While derived from techniques of collage, the works are executed entirely in paint, which Maloney says makes them ‘anti-collage’. He uses a photocopier to manipulate his imagery of past drawings and paintings, altering their scale, revealing symbols of punctuation or text, and transforming remnants of past work with movement and reproduction.
Utopia Art Sydney
11 May to 1 June, 2013
Sydney
Pearl, 2012, acrylic on polyester, 161 x 120cm
Courtesy the artist and Utopia Art Sydney
