RICHARD MAGUIRE

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CV (select)
Wherein Difference Lies
Amidst Relations
In The Absence Of Pleasure
Ghungroo
What Happens To Remain Unsaid




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Wherein Difference Lies, a corresponding publication to an exhibition of the same name
is available to purchase from Post Times at a cost of $20 USD + shipping.
 Purchase: In The Absence Of Pleasure publication via.  Village Books (edition of 150)



                 





email: maguirer [at] live . co. uk.
instagram:@richardsarkermaguire






CV (SELECT)

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2023: Full CV is available Upon Request.



The Glasgow School of Art,     UK

The  Royal Drawing School,     UK

The Gray’s School of Art,           UK

The Academy of Fine Art, Prague, Czechia





Wherein Difference Lies, Post Times, New York

Amidst Relations,  Patron Gallery, Chicago

In The Absence of Pleasure,  Village Gallery, Leeds

What Happened To Remain Unsaid, Maximillian William, London





Talisman, Cardion Arts, London

Drawing Room, Vardan Gallery, Los Angeles

Situational Attempts, The Artist Room, London

The Drawing Biennial, Drawing Room, London

White Columns, Annual Benefit Exhibition, New York




The Ingram Prize, Cromwell Place, London

Like Paradise, Claridge's Art Space, London

Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize, London (touring), Uk

Platform, Trintiy Apse, Edinburgh Art Festival, UK
03.In The Absence Of Pleasure

Village Gallery
Leeds
2023 Photographs by Denis Guzel, 
provided courtesy of Maximillian William, London & Village Gallery

IN THE ABSENCE OF PLEASURE
GRAPHITE ON PAPER, SOLVENT TRANSFER ON PAPER


In Richard Maguire’s intricate drawings, colonial spectres are revived, offering glimpses of the often obscured intimate relationships between master and servant. In academic texts between the Australasian and South Asian subcontinent, the lack of historical prosecution is taken to suggest there were no such intimacies or abuses between Black and South Asian servants/slaves and their masters in a racial calculi that obliterates chances of reexamining histories of intimate encounters and intimate violence.


For the works in this exhibition, Maguire draws from the colonial archives and mass produced postcards by Higginbotham & Co, Madras which depict South Asian men, flora and fauna and the shadows of images (?). This exoticised, lush imagery is dissected and reanimated in Maguire’s drawings examining the complexity of those who found or created beauty within the absence of pleasure.

Text by Uma Karavadra


Purchase a copy of  the accompanying publication from Village £8.00 + shipping.