As a multidisciplinary artist, ShockJR a self taught creative, transitions between a variety of mediums to produce 1 of 1 Hand painted collectibles from skateboards, wearable art to large scale canvas and mural works. ShockJR displays his eye for aesthetic pleasure through pallet and placement.
Shani Finch is a young female artist from Brisbane. She comes from a fine arts background, but after failing to conform to the standards of a curriculum in university, discovered her passion for street art and adapted her style to compliment both canvases and walls. Her work is a direct projection of the artist herself, loud, bright, very honest and realistic but expressive. Finch uses her art as a platform to open a dialogue about issues such as body image issues, sexuality, social constructs and equality.
Total Boys Club is a Brisbane based duo comprised of female identifying artists, Kezamine and Shani Finch. Exhausted by the male dominated industry, Total Boys Club embraces femininity, sexuality and the colour pallet that society has designated to its female members.
Rick Hayward is an established Brisbane creative traversing the space between craftsman and artist. Hayward translates 18 years of traditional sign-writing into a contemporary studio and public art practice, alongside varied commercial projects.
Utilising social, environmental, and anthropological discourse to inform his work, Hayward refocusses his commercially acquired skillset to investigate sociocultural value systems and constructed identity in relation to the human condition.
Hayward’s work spans large scale murals, through to studio artworks utilising techniques and materials practiced in traditional sign-writing. Exploring typographic arrangements and hard edge abstraction with reductive design principles, his practice represents a fluid intertextuality between the commercial and contemporary realms.
Purik is a graphic designer and illustrator born in Ecuador. His work is based on the iconography of Latin American and Afro-descendant tribes applying techniques such as spray and acrylic.
Muchos is an illustrator and painter whose work serves as a visual compilation of thoughts, experiences and daily observations. Embracing imperfection, he aims to maintain a childlike ignorance in his approach to mark making.
Lisa Tran Kelly is a multidisciplinary artist and therapist from Brisbane. Drawing from her studies, her personal artistic practice gravitates towards themes of nature and humanity and attempts to discuss the intersection of art, mental health and recovery. Her art seeks to explore the historical symbolism of the human identity and traditional, folkloric art practices from her Vietnamese heritage. Her main mediums include gouache, acrylics and gold leaf and float between mural work and illustration.
Local Meanjin artist, Lily Kamholtz, works across illustration, animation and acrylic painting to offer insight into her imagination. Using juxtaposition as a tool for relatability, Kamholtz combines mundane activities with the wonderfully whacky and bizarre.
Karri McPherson is a contemporary Visual Artist who specialises in painting and mural art. Within her work, Karri uses geometry as a mechanism to influence the way that our public spaces are experienced by re-contextualising themes and ideas into eye-catching artworks. Her geometric designs are influenced by everything from modern landscapes to historical symbolism, and she uses these topical themes as tools to enhance her artwork’s relevance, meaning and visual impact. To bolster the conceptual rigour of her murals, Karri undertakes extensive research into site locations and relevant themes to inform the design process.
By investing dedicated time into understanding the proposed themes for each of her projects, Karri thoughtfully translates concepts into visual language for different communities within the public to appreciate. Each of her murals embody distinct characteristics that convey pertinent subjects and ideas to diverse audiences in an exciting and artistic way. Her powerful use of geometry is inspired by an intrinsic desire for balance, unity and symbolism, and her unique compositions invite communities to celebrate the timelessness and universality of shape, form and colour.
Throughout the past four years, Karri has completed twenty-two murals and public art installations throughout Australia and the United States.
Kane Brunjes is a Ungari man from Murgon. He is an artist whose practice spans both public and gallery realms. Kane Brunjes is a Gunggari, Kabi Kabi man practicing in both public and gallery realms. Through his art practice Brunjes aims to solidify and represent a visual portrayal of how he views and reacts to the environment surrounding him with consideration to history and story.
Kaff-eine paints public artwork globally, while pursuing realist portraiture in her Melbourne studio. Combining creativity with a strong social conscience, her creative projects invite audiences to engage with social and political issues.
Kaff-eine’s international creative collective Cheeseagle has produced four exhibitions and two documentaries, including the award-winning feature film Happyland, which follows Kaff-eine’s unique art-as-housing project in the Philippines’ dumpsite slums.
She was the first female Australian artist to paint portraits on disused grain silos for Victoria’s Silo Art Trail, and the first Australian artist to create a pyrotechnic sculpture for Mexico’s international fireworks festival. Recently, she painted Australia’s first large public sistergirl (transgender Tiwi Islander) mural in Darwin, NT.
Kaff-eine enjoys painting solo, but takes special interest in creating collaborative artworks. These include Infinite Thanks, a travelling participatory exhibition about LGBTQIA+ gratitude, honouring rainbow deities and sharing LGBTQIA+ stories of thankfulness; Southern Wild, a portrait exhibition where nude non-professional models directed their own sittings; and the many murals painted in collaboration with communities from remote Arnhemland islands, to isolated outback towns and teeming international cities.
Kaff-eine is interested in further developing her public murals as a storytelling medium; and experimenting with more unconventional materials in her studio portraiture
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