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ESSAY | The Imagined Landscapes of Maggie May Jeffries

By Artist Profile | Published May 22, 2026

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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Painters on Pots

By Artist Profile | Published July 24, 2022

Good ideas don’t have to be unnecessarily complicated. Painters on Pots is straightforward enough: find some artists who work with paint, and introduce them to a new medium. Let them go somewhat wild exploring the new medium, then see what this introduction results in.  For this basic idea to work, there are some ingredients required: […]

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Maggie Jeffries

By Artist Profile | Published October 25, 2021

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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