Maggie Jeffries is an emerging artist from lutruwita/Tasmania, based in nipaluna/Hobart. Inspired by an enduring sense of childhood wonder, Jeffries’ paintings explore how edges of an environment intersect with memory, layering encounters with sites of growth to visually describe her felt experience and personal connection to place. A childlike curiosity of plants and their intricate details remains central to her painting practice, keeping her tethered to the remembered gardens and bushland of her childhood, and continue to ignite her connection to each new site of growth that she encounters.
Maggie graduated with first class honours from the University of Tasmania, 2022. Studying fine art and psychology, her practice involves working with artists living with all abilities through mentoring, tutoring, collaboration, and community engagement. In 2020, Maggie received an artist fellowship to visit Creative Growth, an organisation working with over 170 artists with disabilities in California, USA. In 2023, Maggie was selected for the Rosamond McCulloch studio residency at the Cite Des Arts Internationale in Paris as well as the Country Glover residency at Patterdale, lutruwita/Tasmania (2023). Maggie is currently a resident studio artist at Contemporary Arts Tasmania, nipaluna/Hobart (2024). Her work has been exhibited in solo/group exhibitions at Despard Gallery since 2018, when she received the Despard Gallery NEXT award. She was recently selected as a finalist of the 2024 Women’s Art Prize Tasmania.
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