Maggie May Jeffries

3 – 27 June 2026 – Solo Exhibition

[photo of Maggie May Jeffries by Laura Purcell]

Despard Gallery is proud to host Night Citrus solo exhibition by early career Tasmanian painter Maggie May Jeffries.

Underpinning Jeffries’ new suite of botanical based paintings is an intimate observation of details found in our natural world.  Through exquisitely layered surfaces, each work traces Jeffries’ personal fascination with plants and flowers, recalling the sensation of personal experience through a shared sense of wonder.  Magnifying each subject many times their original size, reveals an intricate world of unseen beauty and the awe of childhood curiosity.

Rich and complex, each meticulously rendered composition is assembled from numerous sources, symbolising how memory is collected through layers of experience and becomes entwined with personal awareness and perception, but can also slowly fade into abstraction.  As such, Jeffries’ use of paint becomes a method of remembering, combining opaque and transparent layers to capture each texture and detail, as well as subtle shifts between light and shadow.  Blending these various states together, Jeffries’ work conveys multiple ideas simultaneously, including a sense of fragility, transience and decay, yet also resilience, growth and renewal.

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