Stefan Mager has a design and publishing background. After selling his Melbourne-based business in 2000 he moved to the Northern Rivers area of New South Wales. Apart from maintaining the Aracaria Gardens (a landart project now in its 23rd year), he works as a sculptor and painter and an occasional publisher. Sculpture materials are often sourced on his farm and combined with ceramics and various metals. The works are generally small-scale and have found collectors in many parts of the world.