Sirmano is the alias of Anna, a Brisbane artist who creates playful illustrations working with paint, wood and mixed media. Her unique style summons a curious and unpredictable world for her characters to live. Sirmano’s creative practice has drawn influence from her love of travel, different cultures and her heritage.

Brazilian artist living in Brisbane for almost 3 years now, Xandolino (Alex) collects many interests from where he draws inspiration to create his abstract pattern-like art. Among these interests there are architecture, comic books, maps, board games, graphic design, people, music, mechanism, microcosm, puns and societies. It’s diverse!

Cherie Buttons is a Brisbane- based artist who likes to work with all different kinds of media. From spray paint to digital work, her art is largely inspired by the streets of Japan, pastel colours and female characters.

Xato Stencils is a street artist from Argentina who mixes free hand painting and hand-cut stencils with great detail to achieve powerful images on the wall.

Diz is a Brisbane OG, with a heavy graffiti influence, starting out in the late eighties. Diz is prolific in the range of materials/methods used in producing art and is always striving to push the limits. Fav mediums in order are; aerosol, oils, digital and the rest 😉

Australian-based artist Gus possesses adiverse skill set, spanning many creative areas and mediums. Exploring figuration through studio work and contemporary mural painting, Gus blends methods to produce a vast array of work – from small compositions to expansive murals. Gus is particularly interested in the diversity and intrigue of people. By focussing on developing relatable concepts, Gus continually challenges audiences’ perceptions of themselves. Over the years Gus has exhibited nationally and abroad, receiving accolades in the form of art awards and steadily producing commissioned works for private clients and corporations including Brisbane City Council and Queensland Rail. In the meantime, Gus continues to work hard – aiming to go far beyond preconceived creative boundaries.

Josh Thorsen is a child of the eighties. His personal art work is heavily influenced by eighties cartoons, skateboarding culture, comics and anime. His art explodes with bold color pallettes, giving life to goonish characters and the world in which they were created, leaving the viewer experiencing nothing short of an LSD flashback.

Shiroi Usagi creates not because he wants to, but because he can. Heavily influenced by cartoons and comics Shiroi often uses celebrities and popular culture as targets of his tongue-in-cheek works.

BoHDi is a Brisbane-based graffic artist producing works of wild influence. His work usually contains some form of human subject or element and wherever possible is very loud and craves attention. Not unlike the artist himself.

Guido van Helten is an Australian, internationally-based artist working in the field of contemporary street art undertaken through a site-specific exploration of cultural identity to be re-envisaged as large scale public works.
These projects are undertaken with the intention of initiating constructive visual connections between communities and site-specific urban spaces inclusive of a broader context of cultural, social and national identity narratives. Combining cultural research, documentary based photography and community engagement, this method of working seeks to generate a broad relation to emotive qualities in the selection and placement of imagery whilst promoting social discussion.