Maz Fargo

Growing up on the Scenic Rim, Maz’s love of country began at home, with the McPherson Ranges as her backdrop, the pristine rainforests and long grasses of wide-open farmlands were the places where ideas of belonging emerged.

Moving to Moreton Bay and the salt water as a young adult, raising children and working in conservation and land management marked her second love affair with the natural world and a reconnection to her biological roots.

Fargo is a self-taught emerging multi-disciplinary artist living on Gubbi Gubbi Country in the Sunshine Coast Hinterland. She completed a BA in Visual Arts in 2019. Her current work focuses on regeneration and explores the idea of place as embodied memory.

Utilising abstractions of light and shape, she releases anchors to typical representations of both distant and everyday experiences. A backstory of romance guides her work – symbolising the lifelong desire and often the struggles of belonging - and pivotal to the custodianship of what resides underfoot.

Manipulating her ceramic functional ware through the deconstruction of form and reimagining these as an interplay of the binaries in our geographical landscapes, Maz brings together reclaimed fallen timber and multiple firings over stoneware clays, implicating renewal and resilience under adverse and often harsh conditions.