When Maser strikes, everything is likely to be covered in his colourful abstract geometric stripes and shapes – walls, floors, furniture and even buses and cars.  Irish street artist Maser has arrived in London.   Just as the windows of four Bond Street buildings have been taken over by artists, those of 11 Rathbone Place now glow with Maser’s vibrant colourful abstract forms.   Inside the gallery, his works bring the walls to life.  

Starting by painting graffiti in the streets of Dublin in his unique recognisable style, Maser (born 1980) has developed an international reputation for his work in urban settings, including being the artist in residence at the 2015 Sydney Festival where he created his huge work “Higher Ground”.   

The exhibition “Orbiting on the Periphery” at Lazarides is unusual for Maser in that the work has been created in a studio rather than out in the city, and shows that he can do both as he explores the relationship between the physical and the psychological.  Formed of different shapes and colours, cut in layers to give three dimensional forms, his works leave the viewer to guess the meaning behind the shapes, some suggesting lips, arms and hands, and their relationships and layering.