Early-career Tasmanian painter Maggie Jeffries continues her exploration into botanical-based paintings – reflecting on how memories and places of meaning are developed through experience.
Flowers and plants form a tether to sites of significance in Jeffries’ practice, prompting an emotional response through a sense of awe and wonder. Capturing the intimacy of realism combined with the freedom of a more intuitive approach, the delicate beauty of Jeffries’ subject matter evokes ideas of mortality and transience, and simultaneously, a sense of binding connection, growth, and renewal.
Despard Gallery
3 to 27 June 2026
Tasmania
Maggie Jeffries, Toy Tiger, 2026, oil on linen, 122 × 92cm / Courtesy the artist and Despard Gallery, Tasmania
