Author: Brisbane Street Art Festival

Join us for an exciting tufting workshop where you’ll learn the art of rugmaking from start to finish in a warm and inviting atmosphere. Whether you’re a beginner or have prior experience, our workshop is perfect for anyone looking to explore the world of tufting. This class focuses on learning everything you need to know about the rug making process.
In this hands-on class, you’ll learn how to create a custom rug of your very own and we provide everything you need, from tufting frames to quality tools and supplies.

Join Sarge as he takes you on a cubist journey exploring the works of Pablo Picasso. Learn the secrets of the Cubism and create your very own masterpiece just like Picasso.

Sarge Jhorgenson is a Brisbane based multidisciplinary artist, author, poet and teacher. His paintings and murals are bright, bold and colourful, often depicting stylised coastal landscapes or bushland scenes that reflect Queensland’s unique flora. His poetry and short stories, spliced with dark humour, reflect both the mundane and significant of the human experience.

Find his poetry and art @mrsarge76

*This workshop is suitable for children aged 6-12 years old

This workshop will draw you into the world of typography and lettering – stylistic text and words! Playing with letters as a visual medium, you’ll discover the power of arranging words to create a decorative and dynamic style of visual communication. An experienced artist will guide you through a collaborative design, and introduce hand lettering techniques including drafting letterforms, spacing, and stroke consistency. Beginners will leave with an understanding of typography design through various mediums, while more advanced artists will have the opportunity to improve their techniques. Art materials will be supplied.

In this workshop, classes will take a dive into the world of realism while tuning their brushwork skills. An artist mentor will lead groups through how to take a subject from vision to the page, covering essential art techniques such as scaling and depth with a variety of brushes and techniques.

NOTE: This workshop will include the use of palette knives to complete your visual art piece.

In this workshop you will learn about and create your own collage. Collage has been used in varying forms of art for hundreds of years, and is now also found in street art (often called “cut- out paste-up”), and involves any combination of cutting, pasting and drawing. Street art is part of an independent attitude and movement of creative expression, and collage is an important element of this community, capturing the attitudes and creative work through the lens of the authors. All materials supplied.

The art of graffiti writing is where many of Brisbane’s, and the world’s, greatest street artists began. Join an experienced artist to explore this OG form of modern public art and create your own marker-based masterpiece of graffiti-style writing. All materials supplied.

In this workshop you will learn the art of Slap Ups. Participants will be guided through a number of activities in image making and manipulation through to creating and Slapping Up on our pop up Graf wall. Slap Ups (AKA Sticker Art) have played an important role in street art culture as a way to cross pollinate between mediums and creative movements. Through techniques such as collage and image manipulation, Slap-Ups have provided a platform for street artists to create unique imagery that attempts to subvert the commercial nature of mass media. Slap Up artists often trade their work with one another in order to expand the reach and scope of distribution within their communities. An artist’s stickers may be distributed through this worldwide network and end up in places they themselves have never travelled to.

In this hands-on experience, you will be guided through the completion of a simple mural work with an experienced artist. With the outlines of the mural ready to go, you’ll splash on colour to bring this mural to life – while gaining knowledge of mural art techniques, colour theory, and scaling up artworks for walls. Art materials will be supplied.