Marian Maguire is a New Zealand artist who has become known for her lithographs and etchings that combine imagery from Greek vase painting with New Zealand colonial history.

Marian Maguire is represented by:
PG gallery192, Christchurch, New Zealand
Bowen Galleries, Wellington, New Zealand.
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NEWS:
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​Exhibition of new paintings on wood plus two new lithographs.

FIREPLACES: Odysseus, Penelope and Te Koha

Opening Mon 6 March, 5.30pm, exhibition closes 1 April.

PG gallery192 
192 Bealey Avenue, Christchurch, New Zealand
 The Odyssey of Captain Cook, series of ten lithographs from 2005, is currently on show at the newly refurbished Queen's House, National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK - on until October 2017
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Marian's lithograph 'Ko wai koe?'  is included in a large and fascinating exhibition, On the Origin of Art, at MONA, Tasmania. Four curators from science and humanities backgrounds, were asked to theorise on how and why art evolved and to then illustrate their theories with objects from around the globe and throughout history. The show is on until 17th April, 2017 and really worth the visit. 




Titokowaru's Dilemma, an exhibition of lithographs and etchings first exhibited in 2011, is now included in the collection of the British Museum. Marian was interviewed at the museum in September of 2016 and here is a short VIDEO of the edited interview. While researching the Cook, Herakles and Titokowaru's Dilemma series Marian was often inspired by the objects in the British Museum which was founded around the same time Captain Cook made his voyages into the Pacific and at about the same time as the Etruscan vases were discovered at Vulci. Objects from both the sources formed part of the core of the collection.

2017 exhibitions of new work:
7 March-1 April - FIREPLACES: Odysseus, Penelope & Te Koha - PG gallery192, Christchurch, NZ 
November -  Bowen Galleries, Wellington, NZ

THE LABOURS OF HERAKLES  - is now back from its tour of England and Europe. 
During 2015 Marian's 2008 exhibition, in which Herakles is cast as a New Zealand pioneer, was shown at Leeds City Museum, then Cambridge Museum of Classical Archaeology and as 'Herakles in Neuseeland' at Antikensammlung in Munich, Germany. It is on show at Martin von Wagner Museum, Wurzburg, Germany until 22 May and from Sept-December 2016 will be at the Musee Royal de Mariemont, Belgium.