Artists

Hunter Valley based sculptor Will Maguire holds a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy and a trade background in blacksmithing and fabrication. His work is deeply embedded in working with materials as active and relational substances that push and pull on our shared world. Informed by his industrial training, Maguire often searches for beauty and complexity within raw honest forms.

Maguire works from an intimate to monumental scale and has exhibited widely across Australia in galleries and outdoor exhibitions; including Sculpture by the Sea Bondi; and the Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize; and internationally in UK, USA, Germany, France and Belgium.
His work has been acquired by The University of Newcastle and major works form part of public collections in the ACT, Maribyrnong (VIC), Newcastle (NSW), Wagga Wagga (NSW), Maitland (NSW), Singleton (NSW), Cessnock (NSW) and Langemark-Poelkapelle (Belgium); as well as numerous private collections.

Maguire has completed residencies at the ANU sculpture school (ACT), and the Penland School of Crafts (USA). His work is featured with a dedicated chapter in the Metal design international 2022 published in German and English; he has led collaborative sculpture builds in, Scotland, Belgium, Melbourne and Northern NSW; and was recently a guest lecturer at the Hereford school of Art, (England) one of the few contemporary art schools globally which embraces blacksmithing as a sculptural medium.