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About Maria Moon
Pictured Artist and Ouroboros
Maria Moon was born south of Sydney, Australia in a town called Kareela. Born to an artist mother and jeweller father, Maria developed her creativity at a young age. One day after coming home from a day at Caringbah High school, Maria opened the freezer looking for ice cream and found a freezer full of pigs’ heads. It didn’t occur to Maria that she was brought up in a slightly different way. Her mother actually collected objects for the art students to draw.
At the age of 16 Maria experienced a terrifying experience in the family home. The family was held at gun point whilst armed robbers raided the house. Maria was taken hostage at the end of the evening when the police arrived. After half an hour of resisting arrest, Maria heard the trigger pulled on the gun. Just in an instant Maria felt her spirit fly out the top of her head from extreme fear. The trigger was not pulled, instead the burglar emptied the bullets out and surrendered.
This experience of flying out of the body and leaving the physical world has led Maria Moon to discover and express alternative realities. It was the beginning of seeing much more than the physical plane and so called reality. It was a complete acceptance of Death as part of Life. This experience after time enabled Maria to share her visions of the Otherworld and to express imagination unrestricted by reality, that fantasy is a completely tangible reality.
Eliphas Levi, an ex Catholic Priest /Kabalist convert says, “The man who knows has no longer cause to doubt; when the spirit no longer doubts, the will ceases to hesitate and the man attains to what he wills.” –The Paradoxes of the Highest Science.
A member of the Theosophical Society, Maria is an avid learner of the Mystery tradition and Occultism.
In 2005, Maria hosted a solo exhibition in West End, Brisbane at a café called “The Forest”. The exhibition was themed Flying and Transformation and hosted some of Brisbane’s finest music acts such as Kooii, Dynamic Thrills, The Shire (solo) and Waziz. The main goal of the event was to create another world where anything was possible, where photography, painting, drawing, sculpture and music come together in a multi dimensional fairy tale. Steeped with objects from the wilderness, Maria shared her teachings from nature where the true lessons of transformation are learnt from the serpent, bats representing rebirth, and black, a protective fertile colour where growth is made possible.
A keen learner, Maria completed her Bachelor of Creative Arts at Wollongong University in 2002. She won the University Art Prize and was runner up in the National Tertiary art award with her series of photos titled “Chrysalis.” These photos caused such a stir they became a Health and Safety issue and were removed from public viewing. Maria managed to take her photographs back in exchange for an assemblage that was front page of Art Express 1998. It seems that art to Maria must have some sort of reaction from the viewer in order to be successful. This means that the image has triggered something in the viewer in relation to their own life and caused a memory or feeling to be re-explored.
Brian Froud has been an amazing inspiration for Maria Moon especially his movie and book, the Dark Crystal, and Good Faeries Bad Faeries.