Author: Brisbane Street Art Festival

Fuzeillear was born in England but has been living and working on the Sunshine Coast for the past eight years. She creates work imbued with a calm and stillness that she struggles to find in real life in an attempt to help other people find it in theirs. She enjoys depicting light and shadow and works both in small scale and large scale, believing that when it comes to murals and bubble tea, bigger is better. She has produced work for Bic, Volcom and Cotton On among others, and has a passion for public art as it is a chance to connect with people and a perfect opportunity to brighten someone’s day.

Tuyuloveme is an Indonesian artist who began his artistic practice on the streets of Yogyakarta, creating work in between the art and graffiti aesthetic. Tuyuloveme has been painting his unique style religiously on the streets for over 10 years. His paintings represent an alter ego, a self- portrait of sorts, popping up on walls and street corners all over the world. His visual style is a juxtaposition of organized, expressive and chaotic expulsion; a contrast to his personality in real life. His career has been nourished and influenced by extensive travel and an ability to work and collaborate with other artists. Tuyuloveme has exhibited in national and international events and exhibitions with a number of solo exhibitions. Tuyuloveme always challenges himself to develop his skills and obtain experience that will improve and enrich his artwork.

Imogene Peach is a queer artist that creates abstract compositions and bold illustrations that reflect the combination of a soft heart and a brain on fire.

Sam Bradley, a self taught graphic designer specialising in hand lettering and calligraphy. He loves combining traditional techniques with computer graphics to create unique compositions and effects. The precision of vector and pixel art combined with the endless variety of handmade texture allows him to make work that is fresh and modern yet retains the rough signature of my process.

Lisa Tran Kelly is a multi-disciplinary artist and musician from Brisbane, Australia with a background in Behavioural Science and Psychology. Her artistic practise gravitates towards themes of renaissance, nature, race and humanity and attempt to discuss the intersection of art, mental health and recovery. Her mediums include acrylics, oils and gold-leaf and span across photography, filmography and illustration.

Kenji Chai was born and raised in the city of simplicity, Sandakan, Sabah and currently lives in Kuala Lumpur. He was bred on comics, cartoons and storybooks from an early age and spent his days rummaging into these worlds of imagination. Kenji Chai has a passion for animals and nature it is his wish to share with the world the importance of looking after the environment and the wild life that inhabits it. With artistic roots established in graffiti and comic book aesthetics the use of vibrant colors and elements of pop culture are prominent in his work.

Said Dokins lives and Works in Mexico City.
Dokins started doing graffiti and street interventions since the 90s. This experience led him to the School of Arts, where he was interested in conceptual art and the relation between art and writing. He did some studies of Philosophy and Art Theory. He has also done courses of traditional Western and Japanese calligraphy.
He is best known for his unique calligraphic style, which combines elements from Western and Asian Calligraphic Traditions, with pre-phonetic writing references, Mesoamerican Pre-Hispanic symbolic inheritance and Graffiti, combining precision and discipline with expressiveness and spontaneity.
Dokins explores formally, symbolically and philosophically the potentiality of words and letters. In his work, they become gestures, traces that overlap creating patterns, textures, narratives; marks that carve sites, drawing boundaries, producing meaning. In that sense, for Dokins calligraphy and graffiti are a way to understand our relations with language, an action
that stresses time, space and memory, a political enunciation.
His artistic practice involves several disciplines and media such as calligraphy, graffiti, installation, performance, video art and light experimentation. His work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, in countries as Spain, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium, United Kingdom, France, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, El Salvador, Peru and others. Photo credit to Leonardo Luna.

Ashley Peel is an emerging Brisbane artist, who through the use of drawing and painting express her emotions as she travels through life. She is currently in her second year, of a Bachelor of Fine Arts at the Queensland College of Art. In 2017, Ash was selected as a finalist for Anglicare’s Arts and Minds Program, which focuses on art and mental health. Her work was exhibited on GOA billboards around Brisbane and the Bromley and Co art exhibition. Currently, Ash works as an assistant art teacher at Art Star Studio. One day, she hopes to establish a full time career in the Fine Art’s Industry.

Brienné Aspinall is aspiring as an art designer and music producer upcoming from the local areas of Brisbane City. Her passions ranging from all art forms of dance, arts therapy and music to in future become an inspirational-enthusiast for upcoming young adults like herself following the true passions of their heads and hearts. Currently part timing as a waitress working around likeminded inspired young adults and spending the solid forms of time in her studio space, will this entered time pay off and blossom to be a dream to reality lucid projection waiting to be.