Leonie Rhodes is an award-winning Brisbane based artist. Originally from South East London, Leonie had an early sculptural street art practice as a child and was making characters and writing graffiti as a pre-teen. Post-graduation Leonie worked in street-level centres across the boroughs of London creating hundreds of murals and using art as a therapeutic tool with local gang members and their families. Leonie creates public installations often involving hundreds of people as well as sculptures, paintings, sound and performance pieces. Leonie continues to be invited to exhibit internationally and enjoys combining their private studio practice with collaborative and participatory work in the community.

Lisa Tran Kelly is a multidisciplinary artist with a background in Psychology. Drawing from her studies, her artistic practice gravitates towards themes of nature and humanity and attempts to discuss the intersection of art, mental health, and recovery. Her works feature recurring elements and folkloric symbols from her Vietnamese heritage. Her mediums include pencil, acrylics and gold leaf and span across mural work and illustration.

He calls himself Lucks, and that’s the theme he weaves through his art – luck, its symbolism, its indiscriminate randomness. This Brisbane artist channels his observations of a life hard-lived into experiences on the canvas. A former Catholic who still leans on the inculcation of faith and its symbols to influence his acrylic and oil media: a brightly spray-painted silhouette of the Virgin Mary, also representing the voodoo Goddess of Good Fortune, juxtaposes two religions that are in conflict yet share the same message of hope through the strong female archetype. Typical Lucks. For more than 30 years Lucks has employed the spray can to hiss and spit his visual stories into life, first as a street artist and now onto canvas.

Shani Finch is a young female artist from Brisbane. She comes from a fine arts background, but after failing to conform to the standards of a curriculum in university, discovered her passion for street art and adapted her style to compliment both canvases and walls. Her work is a direct projection of the artist herself, loud, bright, very honest and realistic but expressive. Finch uses her art as a platform to open a dialogue about issues such as body image issues, sexuality, social constructs and equality.

Complex factors lead to women and girls’ entering and returning to prison. Criminalisation is usually the outcome of repeated and intergenerational experiences of violence, poverty, homelessness, child removal and unemployment, resulting in complex health issues and substance use. First Nations women and girls are massively over-represented in prison due to the racism at the foundation of systems of social control.
Sisters Inside responds to criminalised women and girls’ needs holistically and justly. We work alongside women and girls to build them up and to give them power over their own lives. We support women and girls to address their priorities and needs. We also advocate on behalf of women with governments and within the legal system to try to achieve fairer outcomes for criminalised women, girls and their children. At Sisters Inside, we call this ‘walking the journey together’. We are a community and we invite you to be part of a brighter future for Queensland’s most disadvantaged and marginalised women and children.

Sheep (Chen Yang), an artist from Jiazing, China, began graffiti in 2008. Feeling the significance of the present and the practice in every work, and hoping to infect the surrounding environment and people with a more active magnetic field through his work. In 2016 their spiritual meditation practice began to change their world outlook, believing that the strength of “mindfulness” and the importance of living in the present, and the way and subject of painting changed accordingly.
The style of Sheep’s works has been infected with the magnetic field of the surrounding environment with a bright colour and hint of words. Their works have a harmonious powers, and aim to inhibit positive feelings

Of his work and experience, Smoe says “I met the Hip-Hop movement in a small village in south Italy, where nature shows its grandeur. It was in the late nineties, I was twelve years old, and l started to express myself with graffiti. Since then I have never stopped expressing my creativity and I always brought my art wherever I‘ve been. There are many ways to call what I do, someone says street-art, masterpieces, urban art, writing. But I like to call it all graffiti, painting out of the canvas. Nowadays graffiti is entering the houses of people, and I enter inside with Them. My creativity and everything I do comes from hip-hop culture and writing of the past and from my present life, my travels, work and new influences. For me art and graffiti still are the medium through which I move and I explore the the world.”

Mouf has been painting his unique curious characters around Brisbane for a number of years, he has an interest in the absurd and colourful which is seen in the entities of his creation. His practice is influenced by his explorations of the forgotten spaces around Brisbane and the underground street art movement that has existed in these spaces for decades.

Hailing from Brisbane, Sofles jokes that his tag sounds like a box of tissues or something from a Hallmark card. He began painting graffiti in 2000 and soon wanted to get better as fast as he could. He began experimenting with 3Ds, however a more traditional style was developed and then improved upon. He quickly became known around the globe as an artist putting in both quantity and quality. As he mastered his craft, Sofles gained the reputation of “Special Effects Wizard”, a reference to his uncanny ability to take any style to the next level.

Sortwo has been doing art since he was 13 years old. Born and raised in the Basque Country (Spain), he got an appreciation for the street art around his neighborhood and it developed into his lifestyle. Art has opened doors for him and allowed him to travel to different countries and practice his passion.
He works with a variety of art methods, never limiting his imagination. His phenomenal style has adapted to indoor and outdoor environments, often creating detailed surrealistic paintings. His primary works are detailed murals created through the use of paint rollers, paint brushes, and spray paint.