Tori-Jay Mordey

Tori-Jay Mordey is an established Indigenous Australian illustrator and artist currently based in Brisbane. Over the years Tori-Jay has honed her skills in digital illustrations, drawings, painting, printmaking, and film while also expanding her skills as a mural artist. A lot of her work revolves around human connection and exploring her racial identity. In her illustrative work Tori-Jay often combines stylistic cartoons with realism to help capture the complexities of our emotions; distorting and exaggerating the characters in a way that helps express and expose their vulnerabilities.

Featonby

Featonby is an abstract artist and calligrapher from Aotearoa based in Brisbane. His style is intuitive and experimental using a hypercolour pallete which brings his pieces to life. Featonby’s work draws inspiration from his own story, using references from his life and the immediate world around him.

Merindah Funnell

Merindah Funnell is a proud young Tubba-gah woman from the Wiradjuri Nation. Her mother is a Wiradjuri woman from the Western Plains of NSW. Merindah’s great grandfather is the famous Alex Riley (‘Tracker Riley’) from Dubbo NSW. Merindah is an illustrator, mural street artist, painter, curator and an artist educator. “My artwork proudly celebrates the longest living society on earth and my strong connection to it through my upbringing in community. Entangled with strong linework, bold colours and a depth of layers my artworks are influenced by the respect and love for our land and its diverse nature and animals. The narrative of Aboriginal people and our struggles with post colonisation is interwoven within my unique style.”

VEISBRUT

Viktoria Veisbrut was born in 1991 in a small Russian town in the Kaluga region and now lives in Moscow. In 2015, she graduated from Tula State University with a degree in graphic design. Initially, she worked as a master of artistic tattooing, but over time, the type of art changed towards muralism and easel painting. Working with walls she has painted a record sized 20m tall wall, which became the record for female Russian muralists. Now she works as a digital artist as well. In all the media she creates her own colourful visual world with her own characters living there.

Fivust

Integrating his signature style of explosive colour tone and mood, Fivust has developed a distinct style that carries a fun element of surprise everywhere. Whether on the streets, in galleries, and many more. Fivust admires the spectrum of possibility and flexibility of a human alter ego in creating his works. For him, it is fascinating that each of them has their own alter ego that can be expressed in so many ways. Growing up enjoying comics, manga, pop culture, and other Japanese references, Fivust’s works — in graffiti, paintings, tattoos, and others — are heavily influenced by those.

Minna Leunig

Minna Leunig is a Geelong based artist living and working on the traditional lands of the Wathaurong people. She creates playful images inspired by the unique beauty and feeling across a vast array of native Australian landscapes – all the way from the dry sclerophyll forests of the Strathbogie ranges, to the tangled mangroves and thick rainforests of Cape York. Through her paintings, she seeks to spark a sense of appreciation for the natural world as well as an interest in issues relating to environmental conservation, during a time where fragile ecosystems need our care and protection the most.

Yin Lu

Chinese Australian Visual Artist, Muralist, Arts & Crafts Teacher of Brisbane Chinese Language School, UQ Arts & Crafts Facilitator, BrisAsia Commission Artist, SHEIN & ROMWE Collaborative Artist, Founder of The Window of Yin. Her artistic practice is significantly influenced by her Chinese heritage. Working across a range of two-dimensional media, from drawing, painting, muralism and mixed media, she uses her bold and contrasting style to amplify her cultural identity. Her interpretations of multiculturalism through combinations of Western art and Eastern aesthetics play a pivotal role in inspiring her art.

George Goodnow

George Goodnow is a multidisciplinary artist currently living in Naarm (Melbourne). Their practice incorporates painting, sculpture, and the use of salvaged materials to produce site-specific installations. By fabricating fictional architectures and objects, or adjusting existing architectures, George considers how spaces reflect, orientate, and hold bodies. Recent work explores feelings of disorientation, binaries, and queerness within suburban and urban landscapes. George has exhibited and produced public art installations around Australia and overseas, and has collaborated on projects with Platform Arts Geelong, AMBUSH Gallery, Science Gallery Melbourne, the City of Melbourne, and City of Ballarat councils. They were also the curator of ‘Intermission Project’ at the Collingwood Yards in 2018.

MR.SOR2

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. In the near future Sortwo hopes to continue to grow as an artist like he has done over the past few years.

Miss Birdy

Mandi Caskey aka Miss Birdy is a muralist, gallery artist, and community activist. Caskey chooses to place her attention on creating imagery that will force the viewer to look outside of their mental and emotional world. As a gallery artist, Miss Caskey enjoys painting quickly and freely in oils on wood that she cuts in her wood shop. Caskey’s mural work tends to bleed into a fantasy world that organically takes over any environment and effortlessly changes the impact of a space. Caskey’s largest mural to date is 400ft long across an abandoned highway in downtown Columbus, the tallest mural to date is 90ft high, which was scaled completely on scaffolding.