Leith Maguire 'Florescence'

Jan Murphy Gallery is excited to present their third exhibition with Protégé artist Leith Maguire.

“Drawing is the way I explore my surrounds and understand my place in them. As I’ve grown older and begun to delve into and understand my own queerness and shifting gender identity, I have continued to examine the intertwined relationships between the human and natural worlds. I am beginning to reframe my creative practice through the critical lenses of common worlds (which is concerned with relationality and the more-than-human world) and queer ecology (which aims to disrupt binary, heterosexist and colonial narratives about the natural world and its inhabitants)." - Leith Maguire

Leith graduated from the Queensland College of Art in 2007. They completed a Master of Cultural Materials Conservation in 2014, and a Master of Teaching in 2022. Leith worked as a Weaver Intern at the Australian Tapestry Workshop from 2016-2018. They have been awarded the Hill End Artist Residency (2013) and the Heather Blair Award, Cairns (2010). Their work is held in several collections including the Cairns Regional Gallery, The University of Queensland Art Collection, Somerville House and the Kedumba Collection of Australian Drawings. Leith currently lives in Naarm (Melbourne), where they work as an artist and early childhood teacher.