Installation view ‘The National 2017: New Australian Art’ at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. Photo: Felicity Jenkins.
Despite peripatetic beginnings, Peter Maloney (b. 1953) spent most of his life in Canberra, first at high school, later returning as an art student and then growing deeper roots as a mature artist. Travel, however, played a big part in directing his work, as well as his engagement with the creative gay worlds of Sydney and Melbourne.
A protracted and unrelated illness, to his identity as a proud gay man, eventually caught up with Maloney.
Gina Fairley is ArtsHub's Senior Contributor, after 12 years in the role as National Visual Arts Editor. She has worked for extended periods in America and Southeast Asia, as gallerist, arts administrator and regional contributing editor for a number of magazines, including Hong Kong based Asian Art News and World Sculpture News. She is an Art Tour leader for the AGNSW Members, and lectures regularly on the state of the arts. She is based in Mittagong, regional NSW.
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