Book launch – Fugitive Text by Peter Maloney

Please join us in the gallery forecourt to celebrate the publication of Fugitive Text by Peter Maloney. This new publication will be launched by Ruth Waller. Ruth Waller is a Canberra-based painter and former Head of Painting at ANU School of Art & Design.

Fugitive Text draws together photographic diptychs and triptychs made since the mid-1990s in response to the artist's experience of love, desire and loss through the HIV/AIDS pandemic. It incorporates photographs taken in-camera as well as images drawn from a variety of sources, including vintage photographs found in flea markets and images re-photographed from pornography and popular culture. The photographs - views of architectural and public spaces, flowers, nudes, images of sea and sky - are paired and, in most cases, overpainted with text -anecdotes, fragments drawn from memory, popular verse and queer culture.

The works are accompanied by texts by the prominent American author and cultural critic Lynne Tillman and writer and curator Shaune Lakin.