In this workshop, classes will dive into the world of realism while refining their brushwork skills.
An artist mentor will guide groups through the process of bringing a subject from vision to the page, covering key techniques such as scaling, creating depth, and working with a variety of brushes and styles.
Are your collage curious? Learn the art of collage with The Collage Collective’s Collage Workshop, sponsored by Brisbane Street Art Festival!
Perfect for all ages and experience levels, this fun and inspiring event is designed to teach you the fundamentals of collage art while sparking your imagination. Join Australia’s leading collage artist, Madelaine Buttini, as she guides you step by step through the art of cutting, layering, and creating unique compositions from vintage magazines.
No Experience Required. Open to All Ages. Perfect for catching up with friends!
What to Expect
Learn how to create surreal and contemporary collage.
Learn from Australia’s leading collage artist. Explore the world of modern art and contemporary art. Fall in love with collage while listening to relaxing music and mingling with likeminded people. Leave feeling relaxed and ready for your week!
Spaces are limited, so secure your spot today. The Collage Collective is where mindfulness & creativity meet!
The art of graffiti writing is where many of Brisbane’s, and the world’s, most iconic street artists got their start.
Join an experienced artist to dive into this original form of modern public art and create your own marker-based graffiti-style masterpiece.
All materials will be supplied.
In this workshop, you’ll dive into the world of Slap Ups.
Participants will explore a series of hands-on activities—from image making and manipulation to creating their own Slap Ups and posting them on our pop-up Graf wall. Slap Ups (also known as Sticker Art) have long been a vital part of street art culture, offering a space for cross-pollination between mediums and creative movements. Using techniques like collage and digital alteration, Slap Ups empower artists to craft striking, subversive visuals that push back against the dominance of mass media. It’s also a culture of exchange—artists frequently trade stickers to expand their reach, allowing their work to travel across cities, countries, and continents, often landing in places they’ve never been.
In this hands-on experience, kids 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 other skills that they can use and develop in many branches of life. All materials supplied.
*Please note that this workshop is only open to children under the age of 18, and all participants have to be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
In this hands-on experience, you will be guided by an experienced artist through the completion of a simple mural work.
With the mural outlines ready to go, you’ll splash on colour to bring the artwork to life — while gaining an understanding of mural techniques, colour theory, and how to scale up designs for large surfaces.
Art materials will be supplied.
An experienced street artist will guide your group through a number of activities in image making and manipulation through to creating and pasting up on our pop up wall. Early street paste-up artists used this art form as a way to make social and political commentary in a time when visual communication was strictly controlled, and artists today use it to create commentary on current events and issues as a way to engage the community. All materials supplied.
*Please note that this workshop is only open to children under the age of 18, and all participants have to be accompanied by a parent/guardian.
Dean Tyson, whose tribal name is Bingkin, is a respected Goori artist and cultural practitioner from Southeast Queensland. Proudly identifying as a ‘Brisbane Black,’ Bingkin is of the Meerooni tribe of the Gurang Nation and the Ngugi tribe of the Quandamooka Nation, with ancestral ties to the Gungalu and Gunggari peoples.
Bingkin’s artwork is deeply influenced by the wisdom passed down from his elders and his strong connection to his cultural heritage. His paintings, often featuring saltwater lore & Dreaming stories, honour the traditions of his people and the landscapes of his ancestral lands. Painting is both a way to keep culture alive and sharing his cultural knowledge, with meaningful stories into every piece.
Fintan Magee is a Sydney based social realist painter, specialising in large-scale murals. Born in 1985 in Lismore, New South Wales, to an architect mother and father who was a sculptor, he started drawing at a young age. His earlier large-scale paintings often inhabited the isolated, abandoned and broken corners of the city, and today are found all over the world including in London, Vienna, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Kyiv, Rome, Jordan, and Dublin among others.
Magee’s practice is informed by a profound interest in political murals, inspired by exposure at a young age to those of his father’s native Northern Ireland. This is reflected in the socialist nature of his public artworks, which combine journalistic elements with public art. Magee’s work is driven by his recognition of the power of murals to communicate political and social viewpoints and thus divide or unite communities.
Drawing from personal experience and the mundane, his figurative paintings are deeply integrated with the urban environment and explore themes of diversity, migration and transition, waste and consumption, loss, and the environment. His works exude an inherent sentimentality and softness influenced by children’s books and the Low Brow art movement.
Simon Degroot is a Brisbane based artist who considers how contemporary abstract painting can interrogate and form a dialogue with pre-existing image details and abstract forms. He completed postgraduate studies at the Queensland College of Art where he was awarded his PhD in 2017 with an exhibition titled, Familiar Beyond Recognition: Translation in Contemporary Abstraction.
Degroot maintains an active profile of solo and group exhibitions including: Decorate at Wellington St Projects, Sydney (2017), Picture Building at Kick Arts Contemporary, Cairns (2016), Indirect Response Postgraduate and Other Projects Griffith University, Brisbane (2015), Composite Orders Rubicon Ari, Melbourne (2015), Shallow Space Australian National Capital Artists Gallery, Canberra (2014). In 2015 and 2018 he was awarded the Moreton Bay Art Award.
In addition to his studio practice Degroot creates large-scale wall paintings and exterior murals. He has completed significant public work for a range of high profile clients including The City of South Perth, Bundaberg Regional Galleries, Queensland Rail, Cairns Regional Council, Brisbane City Council and The Brisbane Hilton. These projects compliment his studio investigations and provide opportunities for expanded painting.
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