Wasp Elder is a socially engaged artist whose aim is to paint murals that communicate varying levels of history and social-poetics with people and in place. He often paints pictures populated by figures and unstressed backgrounds, enticing a sentiment of an obscure journey. His paintings present an evocative combination of solitary figures, collaged scenes, close-ups and obscured features. Through this working process he is able to present often marginalised figures through a dignified representation. Sam also co-ran a DIY multi functional art-space called The Abacus as well as a street art project called Empty Walls. He has collaborated on many projects across the world and continues to use his experiences to learn about people, place and environment.

Rachael Sarra is an artist and designer whose work does the talking. As a contemporary Aboriginal artist from Goreng Goreng Country, Rachael uses art as a powerful tool in storytelling to educate and share Aboriginal culture.
Her style is feminine, fun and engaging but is strongly drawn from her heritage and her role as an Aboriginal woman in a modern world. Rachael is fuelled by passion to continue exploring her Aboriginality through art and design, with each piece strengthening her identity.

Xandolino is a Brisbane based Brazilian artist with a background in architecture and graphic design. His art is about responding to the moment, and the environment surrounding him. He uses collections of simple shapes and colours to build patterns. Although the end result is often abstract, people can find unintentionally hidden figures in his pieces. His inspirations include old maps, nature, board games, puzzles, graffiti, electronics, people, music, mechanisms, comic books, history, etc. In his own words: “While I am creating it feels like turning my logical mind off and flowing with the unconscious, with small steps back to check the overall result. It is an intricate relationship between random and systematic.”

Mainly known by his artist name “RESIO” works as a full-time artist painting commercial artworks and private commissions. Predominantly a street based artist who also dabbles in the studio and exhibitions, Resio is a Melbourne born and bread artist. Mainly using aerosol or acrylic as a preferred medium. He has had the pleasure on working with a wide variety of internationally renowned artists and clients. His talent is displayed through his incorporation of complex compositions, realistic imagery and masterful pieces. Weaving these all together in a one man collaboration piece after piece sets Resio apart from what you’d expect to achieve with multiple artists.

Born in 1990 in Bogotá, Colombia, Zurik is a graffiti writer who started drawing and painting at the age of 9. In 2009, while studying Graphic Design at the National University of Colombia, she began to paint on the street, influenced by the challenge of construction and deciphering graffiti letters. Through self-learning, she developed an exploration of new constructions and color combinations, leading her to the path that she continues on to this day. Currently Zurik is based in Sabadell/Barcelona choosing to devote herself full–time to painting, taking up certain forgotten parts of the study of drawing, traveling and exploring new ways (for her) to integrate recognizable elements with her letters, without losing the essence of what it means the role itself. For her, the technique above the concept remains almost an unbreakable norm, giving the latter a secondary position in what is to paint graffiti.

Roms is attracted to symbolic motifs and over his 31 years as an artist his signature work includes his Flying winged Pyramids and Flying TV’s, brightly coloured skulls also make a regular appearance. Roms started painting in inner city car parks in the late 80’s and early 90’s. He delights in using contrasting colours to enhance the impact of the content, since the early 90’s his trademark drawing style has been driven by building up a large amount of linework which has had an ongoing influence in his practice.

Hickey’s series of female idols are inspired by images of women from a variety of contexts, histories and worlds. The complex layering of imagery and patterns depict beauty, spiritual iconography and the feminine. After completing bachelor degrees in fine arts and education, and then five years of teaching art in Queensland high schools, Sarah Hickey started to produce art professionally after a long hiatus from her own creative practice. Hickey has held eleven solo shows and participated in over thirty group shows.

SATR is a Chinese artist who approaches her creative process using insights and inspiration from her life. Known for her vigorous brushstrokes and intuitive spray can control, the focus of her body of work is animal using a simplified colour scheme. Her works embody dynamism and fluidity.

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.