ESSAY | The Imagined Landscapes of Maggie May Jeffries
While most of Hobart is asleep, Maggie May Jeffries is crawling around in her backyard nasturtiums with a torch, finding inspiration in the intricate details found in leaves and petals when illuminated from behind. The artist finds a precious focus at night. “My brain goes down to three channels instead of ten,” she explains. “It’s […]
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Maggie Jeffries
In Maggie Jeffries’s True Blue, 2020, a pair of eucalyptus branches reach toward each other. Across the canvas, these impossibly emotive plants seem to gesture with high feeling; they are so close to touching one another. The field they reach across is dappled blue – dense and saturated in its colour. Jeffries’s plants are not still […]
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Patrick Hall: Made of Broken Pieces
He’s known for intricately detailed sculptures and furniture, but Patrick Hall’s recent work, The Torn Whole, 2020, features crudely-sketched beasties with beady eyes, toothy mouths and fabulous eyelashes. Hall calls it an “exercise in trying to get me to draw more freely.” He hasn’t completely let go. Countering the free drawing and folds of backlit […]
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