INTERNATIONAL ARTIST TALK
With international borders now opening after two years, we are excited to again welcome significant international artists to the BSAF Program. Join our diverse international artists from the BSAF 2022 program in an intimate panel discussion about their creative careers, their art practice and their experiences around the globe. Explore how they navigate global changes as an artist and express themselves in times of uncertainty. All are invited to attend, ask questions, and obtain insight into the lives of the artists leading the way for public art and street art around the world.
Lincoln Savage – Facilitator
Lincoln is a Creative Director with a strong interest in emerging arts and engaging with new technology. He obtained a Bachelor of Technology Innovation from QUT in 2014 and has since worked on many arts, technology and music based projects with a focus on emerging practice. His stand out projects include establishing the annual music and arts event Yonder Festival, the city-wide Brisbane Street Art Festival, the experiential creative agency Vast Yonder and launching the ephemeral arts project in the Brisbane CBD, Superordinary.
Fivust – Indonesia
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.
Iñigo Sesma – Spain
Born in San Sebastian, Basque Country (1987), I studied Fine Arts at Barcelona University, and completed a Master degree of Painting in Bilbao. Also I lived in New York for two years while I did an Art Postgraduate before moving to San Sebastian where I shared a studio together with other artists. I focus my work on my studio paintings while combining outdoor murals. Lately I painted large scale murals in the USA, Greece, Croatia, and Spain, and had a Solo show of my paintings both in Los Angeles and Paris. Currently I live and work preparing my new Solo exhibition, together with other projects, between Madrid and San Sebastian.
Miss Birdy – USA
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.
MR.SOR2 – Spain
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.
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