Artist Statement

Max Cook-Long is a Toowoomba based artists who works primarily with painting, drawing and mixed media.

Their development has been self directed up until 2022 when they began a Bachelor of Creative Arts and Community Wellbeing, majoring in Visual Arts with the University of Southern Queensland.

Max’s practice is inspired by the science-fiction, fantasy and horror media from their youth, and as a queer artist their works tend to focus on a mixture of the esoteric and feminine forms. They have an appreciation for the strange and unusual, and how the weird can be wonderful.