As part of this year’s festival, QMF and BSAF are thrilled to present a live canvas portrait painting in Queen Street Mall. Visual artists will weave together original portraits of three unique Brisbane identities – Kitch, Anisa and Michelle. They each bring a sense of culture, activism and respect to all things Brisbane, and have individually contributed to the forthcoming City Symphony mobile app. This new and immersive music and audio tour soundtracks on-foot exploration of the Brisbane CBD, responding to your geographic location. Download from your favourite app store and listen to their contributions when City Symphony launches in May!

KEZIAH GALL

Portrait Subject: Michelle Rose Turnbull

TORI-JAY MORDEY

Portrait Subject: Anisa Nandaula

WELLBORN

Portrait Subject: Taitu’uga KITCH Wesche

For the second year in a row, BSAF will be partnering with Brisbane BMW to deliver the BSAF Art Cars – where two local artists will have their designs showcased on a BMW M3 and an M4 Coupé. 2021 sees internationally renowned artists Sofles and Tori-Jay Mordey’s designs proudly displayed on the cars that will be driven around Brisbane throughout the festival.

BMW has a history of art cars and BSAF 2020’s art car was designed in collaboration with Spectator Jonze to bring the 2 Series to life. This year in partnership with Brisbane BMW we have curated two ‘BMW Inspired’ Art Cars with the 2021 M3 being wrapped in original Sofles artwork and the 2021 BMW M4 being wrapped in an original Tori-Jay Mordey artwork. 

BMW has a history of working with artists through a series of works, first introduced in 1975 by French driver, Hervé Poulain, who invited the artist, Alexander Calder, to design and paint the very first BMW art car. The car was used to race in the 1975 24 hours Le Mans endurance race. 

You can view these artworks at events throughout the festival program as the cars will be driving around the city and on display at various locations.

A hard-working silly-bugger. His illustrations have been used to brand countless bands, bars and beers. From the full branding of restaurants and bars, to gig posters, apparel design and every form of illustrative branding. He’s the Head Illustrator and Co-Founder of Snake Eyes Studios in Newtown, the studio is within the compounds of the Young Henrys beer brewery (it’s amazing). They listen to Slayer and drink a lot of coffee. He has an obsession with skulls, monsters, Dad- jokes, red meat and stuff with eyeballs. He also loves swearing. He toasts his sandwiches. He prefers chunky markers to biros. And he’s always down for silly-business.

Crush City, Paint & Art supply store, is located in Annerley, 423 Ipswich Rd. Originating from the heart of the south, The Crush City Crew have always played an active role in the development & promotion of styles & attitudes in the Brisbane Graffiti Art scene. Reals, Meks, Blex, Odie, Deo, Diz, Rahner & guests will be painting together showcasing their varied Graffiti styles reflecting the ‘Notorious’ B line.

The Zookeeper (ZKPR) is a Brisbane based artist whose large-scale murals aim to break the mundane and monotonous routines of daily life. Fascinated by nature from a young age, ZKPR is interested in the infinite parallels between all animals and human beings. ZKPR’s work is about creating a vessel through nature, to bring positivity to our everyday lives.
Avoid monotony, Keep it Zoo.

I began by practising Euro style letters. Through influence I stumbled on ‘Sydney style’ (letters influenced by the birth of New York subway graffiti), and began to evolve what was coming out of my images and the cans. Keeping this in mind I aim to produce some letters of originality!

Brisbane local, Skels has been poking around Brisbane city spots for almost 10 years. Known for his bold, public style and alien-like attention to detail his easily digestible style is always an eyeball pleaser down at the local permission wall.

Space has been doing graffiti for 20 years and is influenced by traditional New York graffiti; his focus is on letter structures combined with bright colours and bold characters.