Author: Brisbane Street Art Festival

John Kaye is a self-trained Australian born painter currently based in Seoul, South Korea. He specialises in large-scale paintings with a conscious split practice that focuses on public street work and private studio work, and the separation and balance of these two worlds colliding.

Karri McPherson’s paintings use geometric art in response to site-specific environments. She uses hard-edge abstraction to break down the boundaries of perception by responding to her immediate surroundings and creating designs based on the location. Karri’s’ works aim to celebrate the beauty of geometric art by infusing communities with her simple, yet intricate, hard-edge compositions.
Through exploring different hard-edge forms, colours, tones and lines, Karri’s works demonstrate how shape can work in relation to space to influence how we experience our surrounds. The works investigate architectural nuances and their potential, with her designs aiming to incorporate qualities from the surrounding environment.
Karri continues to investigate ideas around visual perception by exploring the boundaries and limitations of physical space. As she incorporates the surface and frame of a structure into her paintings, the works have become a reverie about spatial relationships, straddling the divide between art and architecture.

James Khati is a Kathmandu based artist who is originally from Chitwan district of Nepal. He graduated in Fine arts from Kathmandu University, Centre for Art and Design. He has participated in couple of National exhibitions in Nepal. He has been involved in international residency programme like Micro Galleries Patan in Nepal.
He calls himself more as a visual poet working on the ideas of memorabilia. Very open to ideas, situations and opinions, he believes that he is still finding his own voice of storytelling in a very experimental and physically cathartic manner.
He believes that every object has its own story to tell. Being inanimate does not in any way silence its voice as some of the simplest and overlooked objects carry thousands of narratives and interpretations. Time moves in one direction but memories move in another and wherever memories are created, we can feel its physical presence that moves us in endless possible ways. As time fades, so do the objects and spaces but what remains are ruins and traces that starts a new life of its own with a poetic potential in them.
The imageries used in his works are usually photographic references of a diverse range of moments in one’s daily life; whether it is a memorable one or simply abandoned, to which he relates to through communication and realization.
He moves on with art more as a therapeutic way of releasing his energy to the world. As a learning artist, he explores on the idea of making art very impersonal using personal experiences and voices. Thus, his work revolves around the idea of duality, romanticism and visual poetry.

Kristopher Ho, is a Hong Kong based artist and illustrator. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Blackpool, UK, he is well known for his monochromatic and highly intricate murals and illustrations. His work has been described as both impactful with his strokes yet also filled with intricate details. Markers have mainly been his tool of choice for both his mural and illustrations. He is a fan of Doraemon’s work, and all his murals has a tiny one hidden within.
Kristopher Ho creates highly detailed, impactful, marker based artwork with an oriental twist, to explore how contemporary drawing techniques can also translate into murals. The subjects of his artwork are often mystical beings, yet highly relatable in Asian cultures. Being both Chinese and Japanese influenced, his artwork displays a mix of cultures while done solely with a single marker, demonstrating how such a simple tool can be full of surprises.

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Leans is a 23 year-old artist based in Brisbane, Australia. His work is influenced by his daily intake of the Internet, the people that surround him, the manmade environment, the past, the future and everything in between. His work invites the viewer into an abstract interpretation of the architectural world. There are no boundaries like physics or gravity. Leans strives to create entities that can be seen by the viewer on numerous occasions and enjoyed in alternative ways on each visit. He believes that through the use of new technology, he will be able to achieve this on a much more eminent level than with traditional techniques. He hopes in the future he will be able to create worlds inside of virtual reality where people can be immersed in the lush and vibrant insides of his imagination.

Lauren Guymer is an emerging visual artist from Melbourne, Australia. She has exhibited in numerous exhibitions with local and national galleries, including her debut solo show ‘Parallel Universe’ at Off The Kerb Gallery in 2016. In 2017 she won the ‘Best in Show – Other Medium’ prize at Art Red Hill, and then went on to become a finalist in the 2018 M16 Drawing Prize, the 2018 Collins Place Summer Salon Art Prize, and the 2019 Small Wall Project at Outré Gallery. Her works can be found in private collections across Australia, UK, USA, Iceland, and Finland, as well as public murals located in Melbourne and Iceland.