Ian McCallum
Typography Artists who hails from Toowoonmba.
Author: Brisbane Street Art Festival
Sofles
Hailing from Brisbane, Sofles jokes that his tag sounds like a box of tissues or something from a Hallmark card. He began painting graffiti in 2000 and soon wanted to get better as fast as he could. He began experimenting with 3Ds, however a more traditional style was developed and then improved upon. He quickly became known around the globe as an artist putting in both quantity and quality. As he mastered his craft, Sofles gained the reputation of “Special Effects Wizard”, a reference to his uncanny ability to take a standard painting and take it to the next level.
Cezary Stulgis
Born in Poland and currently based in Australia, Cezary Stulgis is a sculptor, painter and designer whose highly distinctive work fuses ‘next-level’ aesthetics with classical craftsmanship – a reflection of his artistic roots in the street art movement of the mid-eighties and formal training as a sculptor and painter at the renowned Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts in Poland. Cezary’s unique style and interdisciplinary skill-set has earned him a reputation internationally as a creative and technically proficient professional artist.
The Brisbane Collective
FEATURED ARTISTS:
KASPER – HARLEY & HANDE – CROSS STITCH OF CONTEMPT JORDAN WEARN SLOE MOTION CRONK & TONIC – KIMI SCHIEREN PHILB – TEENS ON ACID – JETTA’S NEST – WINTER OF ‘72 – ANNA ELIZABETH – REBECCA GILES – CROW JANE – SARAH SCULLEY – JUXTAFIED – AIRBRUSHING – LUKE HENERY – VIOLET MERMAID – SPENCER – DICKENS – URBAN PIXIE – BALAZOVABLACK – VIVID BLACK ARTISTRY
Guido van Helten
Guido van Helten is an Australian, internationally-based artist working in the field of contemporary street art undertaken through a site-specific exploration of cultural identity to be re-envisaged as large scale public works.
These projects are undertaken with the intention of initiating constructive visual connections between communities and site-specific urban spaces inclusive of a broader context of cultural, social and national identity narratives. Combining cultural research, documentary based photography and community engagement, this method of working seeks to generate a broad relation to emotive qualities in the selection and placement of imagery whilst promoting social discussion.
Find out more about Guido:
LORDS – Exhibition
A group exhibition showcasing new work from local emerging Brisbane artists for Brisbane Street Arts Festival. Letting their imagination run wild, artists will create their interpretation of their own ‘Lord’. Their creation could be human, animal or vegetable and be a manifestation of their fantasies.
Original artworks will be up for sale at the event.
Sales are commission free – all sales go straight back to the creator.
Open House 01
House Conspiracy is Brisbane’s newest arts venue,
and Open House 01 is the very first exhibition following their massive launch party in early February. Featuring sculpture, performance, and photography from Annelize Mulder, Ben Warren, Liam Herne, and Unqualified Design Studio—this inaugural curated exhibition is going to be something special.
Fish Lane Knock Offs
A Friday afternoon laneway party… who needs an excuse really? Come a celebrate the end of the working week in Fish Lane with food vans, music, live art performances and cold brews to keep you cool on a hot February afternoon.
Phantom Feeling
THREE ARTISTS. THREE MEDIA. ONE WALL.
Part live performance, part projection mapping show, Phantom Feeling pushes live mural art far beyond the confines of the concrete.
Combining cutting edge projection mapping technology with live sound design and traditional spray paint, Phantom Feeling creates the illusion of a single artist painting in three mediums at once.
Unsettle by Digi Youth Arts
rattle. disrupt. disturb. shake. paint.
Digi Youth Art’s young people are partnering with Land Writers (Warraba Weatherall and Daniel Jones) and Mz Murri Cod (Libby Harward) to transform and activate the Queensland Museum, through the creation of two new works examining cultural heritage collections. This is the first project of unsettle: Digi Youth Art’s long term residency at the Queensland Museum where youth artists will carry out creative investigations into the cultural landscape of major arts institutions.
On these lands, painting on public spaces is no new concept. Street art, like many artforms, is another practice that continues the stories of one of the oldest surviving and thriving cultures in the world. unsettle provides an opportunity for established artists to mentor youth artists as they question, challenge and expose the colonial nature of cultural collections in galleries and museums. The works created will offer audiences new interpretations and observations of cultural heritage collections and provide opportunities for the wider community to speak one-on-one with the artists.
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