Kaff-eine

Kaff-eine paints public artwork globally, while pursuing realist portraiture in her Melbourne studio. Combining creativity with a strong social conscience, her creative projects invite audiences to engage with social and political issues.
Kaff-eine’s international creative collective Cheeseagle has produced four exhibitions and two documentaries, including the award-winning feature film Happyland, which follows Kaff-eine’s unique art-as-housing project in the Philippines’ dumpsite slums.
She was the first female Australian artist to paint portraits on disused grain silos for Victoria’s Silo Art Trail, and the first Australian artist to create a pyrotechnic sculpture for Mexico’s international fireworks festival. Recently, she painted Australia’s first large public sistergirl (transgender Tiwi Islander) mural in Darwin, NT.
Kaff-eine enjoys painting solo, but takes special interest in creating collaborative artworks. These include Infinite Thanks, a travelling participatory exhibition about LGBTQIA+ gratitude, honouring rainbow deities and sharing LGBTQIA+ stories of thankfulness; Southern Wild, a portrait exhibition where nude non-professional models directed their own sittings; and the many murals painted in collaboration with communities from remote Arnhemland islands, to isolated outback towns and teeming international cities.
Kaff-eine is interested in further developing her public murals as a storytelling medium; and experimenting with more unconventional materials in her studio portraiture