Tag: 2021

I am an indigenous Ngarabal man. My culture and my expression are an integral part of who I am.
I am self-taught and have been developing my craft all my life, however I have only been pursuing visual arts professionally for 2 years. My goal is to connect people to their inner dialogue and to provoke discourse on these thoughts we hide from.

I strive to convey who we are as a society, and the effects of colonialism on my country and my culture.
Art creates a space where I can scream without making any sound, and unlike my music this allows me to target a very unique internal energy which otherwise would be left dormant. I am inspired by street art, abstract works and traditional art of my aboriginal culture. Whether you see tragedy or beauty in my work is all about the individual.

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.

Keziah Gall (kezamine) is a mixed media artist based in Meanjin. Her practice provokes discussions of gender, sexuality and intimacy. By use of a vibrant colour palette, she depicts sexually graphic imagery in a way that is inviting, tantalising and stylistically unique to her work. Combining techniques from her studies in animation, comic book design and street art, Kezamine’s work is illustrative, bold and unapologetic.

Total Boys Club is a Brisbane based duo comprised of female identifying artists, Kezamine and Shani Finch. Exhausted by the male dominated industry, Total Boys Club embraces femininity, sexuality and the colour pallet that society has designated to its female members.

Scott Nagy & Krimsone are an artistic duo of painters/muralists from the Blue Mountains, Australia. Having grown up together painting graffiti, they then went on to study fine art. They paint colourful dreamy narratives themed around flora & fauna, the human relationship within that environment, through a romantic lens. 

Madeline offers a lens to view the interconnection that lies outside the scope of our human perception. Highlighting the synchronicity of the macro and micro landscape through abstraction. Using the physical to express the invisible. By pointing to the seen, she is directing your attention to the unseen. Her artworks are an acknowledgment to an intrinsically intertwined symphony of vibrations.

Damien Kamholtz is a multidisciplinary artist who has developed a unique process of layering drawing and painting techniques that explore stories within stories, differing perspectives and hidden narratives. He is interested in a metaphoric and poetic visual language that speaks to the emotions rather than the intellect.

Damien has spent the last five years living with indigenous communities in Kakadu and remote West Arnhem Land regions of the Northern Territory. During this time he worked with senior cultural artists learning traditional approaches and techniques that are now informing his contemporary practice.

Zoe Porter is a Brisbane based interdisciplinary artist exploring primarily a drawing practice, which also extends into painting, installation, performance, sculpture, site-specific works and video. Zoe has a Doctorate in Visual Art (QCA) and has exhibited regularly in Australia and overseas.

Zoe will create a large-scale mural for BSAF 2021 on Gregory Terrace featuring hybrid plant-
human/animal-human characters situated in an otherworldly environment. This work is an
extension of her current practice, which focuses on a personal cosmology exploring depictions
of hybrid forms to suggest other ways of being and existing. These invented characters are
often in a state of transformation and metamorphosis implying our connection to the natural
world and that bring together the real with the imaginary. Many of Zoe’s site specific and mural
works suggest an ambiguous narrative that often connect to the local environment and history.

Xandolino is a Brisbane based artist focused on abstract patterns, mural painting, wooden craft and art for families. He uses geometric shapes in organic ways to play around with the duality of chaos and order. His major inspirations are nature, relationships, typography, board games, collections & connections

Like all trees, Treazy’s roots are planted strongly in the underground. As the seasons change it’s time for growth, time to break through the surface of anonymity and transition into the full being of his creative potential. With more than 20 years in the game he still only considers himself at the beginning of where this artistic journey will take him. Graffiti has played a pinnacle role in his life, teaching him priceless gems about the values of freedom and friendships, the evils of the system and how to navigate around it.