Tanya is a painter, designer, and photographer. She is inspired by the unique character of the Australian people and landscape; including the colour and sparseness of the outback, rainforests, bushland, flowers, water, beaches, built environments, and the human form. Tanya’s technique is free and rapid, which is in sync with her sometimes fast mind. This technique has developed over years of painting and experimenting. She drips, pours, flicks, sprays and smears paint onto the canvas, “which I thoroughly enjoy doing… I find it energetic and fun! I also find painting to be tiring and reflective… when I am tapping into my emotional work”.

Dan is a professional mural artist based in Brisbane. He has been interested in and painting street art most of his life and about 15 years decided to start his own business as a professional artist. He started out drawing and painting with aerosol and developed his skills to include all styles, including his favourite abstract and realism styles.

“Mauy” – A Street Artist based in Thailand. He has been working street art about wildlife and environment for 8 years, presenting a variety of styles, whether character work or realistic work.

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 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 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.”

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.

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 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.

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.