Diz

Diz Brown, aka Disney, aka JB, is a brisbane artist who rose to artistic esteem during his days as a Graffiti writer in the late eighties, early nineties. He uses his art to express his views, feelings & absurdities. Diz is comfortable with multiple mediums from digital to lead but mainly gravitates to spray paint and oils.

Sirmano

Sirmano is the alias of Anna, a Brisbane artist and illustrator who has been creating playful illustrations working with paint, wood and mixed media since her hands could pick up a pencil. She creates characters which are strong, independent beings who occupy a space which is rich in colour and mystery. Since graduating design from Queensland College of Art in 2005, she has studied illustration at the Alberta College of Art and Design, Canada, taken part in an artist residency in Barcelona, exhibited her work nationally and internationally and contributed to street art festivals across Queensland. Sirmano’s creative practice has drawn influence from her love of travel, different cultures and her heritage. She has a keen eye for colour which is a big part of her work, it evokes a feeling and is what keeps her creating. When she isn’t painting Anna works as a senior graphic design for a design studio Bright Yellow.

Emmanuel Moore

Based in Brisbane, Emmanuel Moore is a visual artist who creates paintings and drawings commonly using aerosol, acrylic and interior/ exterior paint. Inspired by urban environments, Moore creates alienated landscapes of recognisable sceneries and objects that hold symbolic meanings as a way of delivering a theory or message to its audience. These imaginative images allows the viewers to create their own perspective and meaning of the artwork. Moore’s artworks are constructed from memory or photographs, allowing each object and/or scenery to be constructed similarly to its original form.

Cloakwork

Born and raised in Kuala Lumpur, Cloakwork is a multidisciplinary creative who works as a graffiti artist as well as an illustrator. He has been painting small and large-scale works around the globe for the last 6 years. His style is urban, contemporary, modern, colourful and is filled with positive vibes. Cloakwork has collaborated with international brands like Petronas, BMW, Volkswagen, Adidas, Travel 3Sixty, iFlix, Levis, Converse and Hypebeast to name a few. His work is rooted in graffiti but not bound by it. CLOAKWORK can be separated into two parts: ‘cloak’ and ‘work’. Cloak meaning: hidden, stealth, cloaked while work stands for movement, when graffiti is done at night he is cloaked and it goes unnoticed. A blank wall during the day gets ‘cloakwork-ed’ during the night and a colourful graffiti is left the day after.

Bao Ho

Bao is a Hong Kong born and based artist who mainly loves freestyle work with murals and illustrations. She started her career in 2015 and shortly afterwards collaborated with various international brands. She was the champion of Secret Walls Hong Kong Series 3. Bao has travelled and worked on projects in all corners of the globe including Australia, Taiwan, Mainland China, Japan, Indonesia, Italy and Czech Republic.

Meks

As a young boy growing up in the suburbs (originally Sydney), Meks was awakened to the sleeping beast that was graffiti in the early 1980’s. Subjected to a world of colour and creation, using an unusual medium, Meks began to draw faces of cartoon characters with letters, eventually spraying onto surfaces at an early age. Today, Meks continues to practice the art of graffiti locally and abroad and had lead to many accomplishments throughout his career.

Dylan Mooney

Dylan Mooney is a Yuibera man from Mackay, Central Queensland and a Torres Strait Islander from Waiben Island. His practices include painting, and drawing inspired by his history and culture. His work mainly focuses on his family history, community stories, archival documents, social media and institutionalized discrimination against Indigenous people. He currently studies Contemporary Australian Indigenous Art at the Queensland College of Art.

Land Writers

Land Writers (Warraba Weatherall and Daniel Jones) are an Indigenous street art collective whose practise critiques the social and political norms of Australia. Informed by their cultural knowledges, Land Writers promote a cross- cultural dialogue by offering alternate ways of seeing and understanding.
This project is a Festival 2018 project proudly delivered by Brisbane City Council, supported by the Queensland Government.

Kane Brunjes

Kane Brunjes is a Ungari man from Murgon. He is an artist whose practice spans both public and gallery realms. He currently studies Visual Arts at the Queensland University of Technology. Through creating art Brunjes aims to solidify and represent a visual portrayal of how he observes and reacts to the environment surrounding him. Continuing from a rich history of culture he paints a contemporary vision through dots and lines. In addition he has been pushing the boundaries of his practise by exploring ceramics with Indigenous peers from Cherbourg. Brunjes has an inherent and continuous urge to express himself through visual language using a variety of surfaces.