Visiting Artists

Sienna Demisch-Gilmore (Year 10) and her completed response following Leith Maguire’s visit.

MRS GAYE BROWN As part of our enrichment drive for Visual Art students this term we were very fortunate to secure the presence of Dr Anna Carey and Leith Maguire. Although their practices are vastly diverse in both technique and inspiration, the rich insights they communicated about their work provide ongoing inspiration. Both artists communicate meaning related to loss, identity, and nostalgia for diminishing worlds.

Anna‘s work incorporates multiple processes of model-making, drawing and photography. Harnessing memory and imagination, she creates fictive architectural spaces based on often familiar iconic architecture that is being lost in the landscape through urban sprawl and commercial development. Much of this is from the Gold Coast and America where she has recently lived and exhibited her work. We thank the P&F for their assistance in funding Anna’s residency at St Aidan’s.

Leith‘s work conveys the vulnerable, in both the natural environment and the human world. Her sensual black ink drawings are informed by the cyclic narratives related to death, decay, and preservation where she often morphs symbolic imagery of animals and humans. Leith’s work is driven by intuition and emotion, allowing her works to evoke unpredictable and poetic qualities.