Born 18 1 1966 London
Artist education, awards and notable events:
October 2008 Art Attack gallery in Dubai, Showspace gallery in Flagstaff Arizona, Ward-Nasse and Agora Galleries in New York decide to represent Timon. Orbit Gallery in New York, which focuses on pop-art, is also in negotiation for a dealership with him.
September 2008 Trip to New York and Dubai to find galleries.
August 2008 Kayaking expedition down Grand Canyon. Photographs scenery from which to create new art.
April 2008 Published in 'New Zealand's Favourite Artists' by Denis Robinson
2006 Illustration of second very successful Simon Eliot book for Lloyd Jones.
2005 Finalist in NZ Post Book Awards in Junior Non-Fiction category for illustration and design of Everything You Need To Know About the World By Simon Eliot. These books have been turned into a children's television game show screening in both New Zealand and Australia. Timon designed the characters and look of the animated show
2002 Kayaking double for Aragorn in Lord of the Rings. Acting extra as an Orc in Lord of the Rings
2001 Finalist Telecom Art Awards, Wairarapa
2001 Spectrum Print annual book design awards - Designed maps in winner of Best Book award in ‘Captain Cook's World'
2000 Best Overall Student award, NCMT, Wellington
2000 Advanced Certificate in Multimedia, NCMT, Wellington
1998 Finalist Telecom Art Awards, Wellington
1991 Certificate in Production Graphics and Design, ATI, Auckland
Previous exhibitions:
May 2008 Art Of This World Gallery, Devonport, Auckland. New Zealand's Favourite Artists Exhibition featuring monoprints, cubist paintings and limited edition prints
April 2008 Exhibitions Gallery, Wellington: New Zealand's Favourite Artists Exhibition featuring monoprints
December 2007 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Christmas exhibition featuring four 50 x 50cm prints
July 2007 Moray Gallery, Dunedin: Limited edition prints
April 2007 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Limited Edition prints in Wellington theme exhibition
December 2006 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Christmas exhibition featuring cartoon paintings
April 2006 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Cubist paintings of Wellington in Wellington theme exhibition
December 2005 Fishers Fine Art Gallery, Wellington: Christmas exhibition featuring small cubist works
2004 McGregor Wright Gallery: cubist scenes of Wellington
June 2003 Cartoon Exhibition at Central Art Gallery, Queenstown
March 2003 McGregor Wright Gallery: cubist scenes of Wellington
January 2003 Fishers Fine Art Gallery: cubist scenes of Auckland and its environs
July 2002 Brava: Timon Maxey Paintings - a mixture of Wellington/NZ cubist scenes and cartoon paintings February 2002 BAM: Furthermore - humorous predicaments: Cartoon paintings
February 2001 Brava: Pum - humorous predicaments: Cartoon paintings
April 2001 Artrageous, Martinborough
March 2001 Tamarillo: Cartoon paintings
February 2001 at Brava: Pum - humorous predicaments: Cartoon paintings
September 2000 at Brava: Veek - humorous predicaments: Cartoon paintings
1994 at The Globe: Screen printed banners
In 2007, Timon developed a series of limited edition prints using an innovative technique. These prints are composed on computer from hand drawn components. In 2008, he invented dendritic river pattern monoprints. These spring from his fascination with rivers and are monoprints of river systems including all tributaries and streams. Also in 2008, he has made monoprints of humorous life-drawings. Timon also paints cubist acrylic canvasses of New Zealand scenes, using rich, intense colours and strong light/dark contrast. He has developed his unique technique over the last eight years. These paintings are constructed using as few blocks as possible but while still clearly representing the well-known subject scene. Some of these works look surprisingly three dimensional. Timon's paintings of humorous predicaments are painted in a bold pop art style and consist of people and/or imaginary creatures in unusual, funny situations. The aim in painting these is both to surprise and amuse himself and also to present an audience with an attractive work with a humorous bite. Hopefully, if the joke wears off, the aesthetic qualities will not.
Timon works as a full time artist at Toi Poneke, The Wellington Art centre. He has always been very interested and involved in art. His parents are both artistic and musical, and this inspired him to paint and draw from a very early age. Even while at university studying geography, he spent much spare time drawing, and deriving supplementary income from artistic endeavours. Since university, his desire has been to pursue an artistic career. Until the new millenium, this has been predominantly a career as a commercial artist. However, inspired by the successes of other artists and by the enjoyment he gets from painting, he is now dedicated to a career in fine art. He has a very wide range of experiences and knowledge to draw from, and enjoys incorporating this into his art. Other interests include white water kayaking on wild New Zealand rivers, conservation, the environment, tramping, rock-climbing, tennis, exploring, snorkel-diving, house renovation and entrepreneurial business ideas.
In August 2008, Timon and a group of twelve other obsessive New Zealand kayakers travelled to Arizona to kayak the Grand Canyon, an amazing adventure of sixteen days on the Colorado River. He took photographs of the spectacular scenery and intends to make a set of Grand Canyon limited edition prints.
