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.

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.

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 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 (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 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.

David is Creative Director of Liveworm, a work integrated learning design studio within the Queensland College of Art, Griffith University. Liveworm operates as a working design studio with students engaging with a large range of ‘real world’ projects for not-for-profit, cultural, educational and small to medium commercial clients. As a practitioner, David is interested in the power of expressive type forms and their potential to create impact, celebrate diversity, and generate change.

My practice of art in Brisbane has spanned over twenty years from studying at QUT to running ARI ‘Lovelove Studio’. My work consists primarily of painting and sculpture. A defining element to the painterly aspect of my practice is the colour palette. At first there is no plan to my painting; colours, bold and bright command. Eventually the abstract leads to form and the meld of colours births objects and landscapes both natural and man-made. This is often overlayed with specific subject matter and that of late has been the portrayal Australia’s unique bird life. My sculptures take a more refined path where there is a plan and end goal. I build mini replicas of inanimate objects with attention to detail, yet purposeful imperfection. What does art mean to me? The freedom of expression, escape from the minds chatter. My art keeps me centred.

Mandy Schöne-Salter is an interdisciplinary artist working in urban art, photography and community art. She studied photography at the Nepean Arts and Design Centre and participated in an intensive Public Art workshop lead by New York Artist Kendal Henry. Since 2013 Mandy has worked on multiple street art projects in Australia and Germany under the pseudonym MAN.De. Her work has been exhibited in group shows across Germany and Australia including Photoszene Köln, K4 in Nürnberg, Casula Powerhouse and VIVID Ideas 2017 in Sydney.

Tori-Jay Mordey is an emerging Indigenous Australian illustrator and artist based in Brisbane. Her most well-known works include; illustrating/ concept artist for K’GARI (SBS interactive web documentary) 2017, designing the letter S for the G20 BRISBANE sign (2014), Maiwar Vibrant Laneways Project in King George Square (2017), and illustrating for the children’s book Bakir and Bi written by Jillian Boyd (2012). Her works consist of personal digital illustration, drawing, painting, printmaking and film. A lot of her previous concepts within her art practice revolved around cultural hybridity; expanding and encouraging diversity within our identities and exploring how society often reacts to or ignore these differences. Growing up in a mixed cultural environment with her mother being Torres Strait Islander and her father being English, Tori-Jay often reflected her artwork around her family and siblings as a way of understanding herself, her appearance and racial identity.