Don Walters
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Don Walters is an Australian sculptor, painter and graphic artist.
He lives and works in Ocean Grove on Victoria’s surf coast, south of Melbourne. This stretch of coastal landscape is a constant influence on his artwork whether through abstraction or as a setting for his whimsical narrative paintings, water colours and mono prints.
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Mandy Evans
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Mandy Evans is a lifelong artist from Western Australia, and has been successful for over 30 years. She thinks this is because she keeps pushing boundaries and changing “… It keeps me passionate and obsessively working”
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Anita Revel
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Anita Revel is a multidisciplinary artist based in Western Australia. She is a muralist, sculptor, interior designer and celebrant working in the Margaret River region.
One of Revel’s common motifs are large, colourful, disembodies wings ideal for taking selfies. Vibrant colour is a consistent feature throughout all of her work, which includes portraits, animals, and flowering plants.
Her arts practice is underpinned by pattern and movement, and features ethereal backgrounds, whimsical vignettes and evocative, colourful abstracts. Working mainly in acrylics, Anita also diversifies her work by creating vivid murals, quirky installations and oversized dreamcatchers.
Her motto is: expressive, colourful, delightful, repeat.
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Olga Cironis
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In her art practice Olga Cironis explores personal and collective identity within today’s cultural globalisation. From a strong migrant feminist foundation Olga scrutinises ideas around belonging and place by researching counter histories and human interaction within ecological dilemmas starting with personal experience. Often inviting public participation and story sharing, Olga succeeds to seduce the public to further delve, reflect and question our connection to nature and place in the world.
Olga Cironis is a highly respected award-winning artist, living in Fremantle WA, with a multidisciplinary art practice spanning over 30 years. Since graduating with a Master of Visual Arts from SCA/University Sydney 1996, Cironis has exhibited nationally and internationally. Cironis has undertaken local and international art residencies and projects. Her work is featured in numerous public, corporate, and private collections globally. In 2021 Art Collective WA published a monograph featuring much of Olga’s art practise over the past 30 years.
Olga Cironis is a member of Art Collective WA.
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Jennie Nayton
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Jennie combines elements of photography, drawing and sculpture together in her unique artform which is based on techniques of origamic architecture. Her works begin as marquettes in paper but are then translated in a variety of mediums, such as stainless steel, tessellating ceramic forms, large free standing cast concrete forms, acrylic and bronze.
She graduated in 2004 from Curtin University with a Bachelor of Arts (Art) with Honours. Since then she has held three solo exhibitions, her last one Pause the Moment held at Gallery East in 2010. She won the 2007 City of South Perth Acquisitive Art Award and has been a finalist in a number of group exhibitions including the Off the Wall Feature at Art Melbourne 07, Art Sydney and Art Brisbane 08, the Fremantle Print Awards (2002, 2006 and 2008), the Sydney Art on Paper Fair (2005), the City of Joondalup Invitation Art Award (2005 & 2006) and the City of Perth Photomedia Award (2006). In 2009 Jennie moved into Public Art and has since won 11 major public artwork commissions, these commissions are in installed in various locations across the Western Australia including one on Adelaide Terrace in Perth. Jennie is included in a number of state and national collections including Artbank, the State Library of Queensland and Parliament House in Canberra.
Jason Hirst
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With a background in interior architecture, landscape design and a passion for design owner Jason Hirst developed his skills to begin creating public art more than 15 years ago. Not only can he design and create a relevant piece to meet a brief, he has an innate sense of how a piece will live harmoniously in its new surroundings.
A childhood passion for drawing led to a fascination with colour and nature. Jason’s designs subtly or overtly merge the two. A longtime surfer, he often finds answers to design and execution questions while out on his board chasing the perfect wave.
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Bridget Norton
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Bridget Norton is a public artist and designer based in Fremantle, Western Australia.
Together with her partner John Norton she designs and fabricates large scale public artworks for local and regional councils, architects and private corporations.
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The Yok
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Yok was born in 1978 in a small suburb near Perth, Australia. He moved to New York a few years back but he often travels back to Australia. However, it was in the suburb of Perth that he began his droopy-eyed drawings. More precisely, these were created in a salty sea shack. Soon after, he developed a love and passion for loopy moustaches, seaworthy beards, and potato headed gargoyles.
Yok created his name out of the mere idea of taking a name with no meaning. Most of the names that other street artists take often have significance behind them and are easily replicated. With the name Yok, he gave meaning to his dorky drawings. In fact, Yok also means Jade in Chinese but it is an insult in Yiddish.
The street artist Yok began to paint very loose figurative pieces in a studio in Fremantle, Western Australia. During this time, it is important to note that Yok found street artist Req-1’s as a huge influence. This work set the foundation for his current street artwork and is also assisted him in getting in touch with spray cans. He created instantly recognizable characters. Yok also produces detailed illustrations, Shellac-based ink drawings, and canvases.
Yok was never interested in tagging even in his debut in the street art. He always stuck to creating characters. Even when he tried to write his letter based pieces; he always ended up replacing the “O” with a character face. Yok’s characters evolved from drawing moustaches on models’ faces in advertising posters and his love of good seaworthy beards. The town of Fremantle was known as a hippy fisherman town and it helped fuelled Yok’s obsession- specially since there were many men with fisherman beards.
Other inspirations include a variety of painters and muralists such as Ewok, Craola, and Dalek. Later, he became more influenced by Twist, Don Martin, Mort Drucker, Phil Frost, and Mike Giant. He loved the idea of gargoyles and how they were placed on tall buildings to keep away evil. He also read Mad Magazine as a child and he loved to paint as if he was drawing. This is why he decided to integrate them into his artwork and style.
He moved to New York to find a wider audience a push his art. New York has proven to be the perfect mix of history, inspiration, and strong creative energy that Yok needed to get up in the city. Yok also travels a lot in Asia because according to him there is plenty of cheap beer, delicious cheap food, and a growing demand of street art and graffiti.
Yok has exhibited in Canada, Germany, Berlin, New York, Tokyo, Sydney, Taipei, Beijing, Singapore, Bangkok, and Hong Kong. He has also painted murals in many more random places across the world. Yok’s goal is to keep on pushing. This also means plenty of fun projects in the near future.
Yok is a part of an artistic duo with fellow artist Sheryo from Singapore. They both work from their Brooklyn studio, but most time they travel together looking for inspiration in new people, customs and folklore. Yok and Sheryo started out painting large scale murals together in 2010 and their practice soon evolve to paintings, ceramics, wood carvings and mixed media sculptures. The result of their common work is a signature of irreverent style, with ‘East meets West’ sensibilities. They have exhibited and painted together in various institutions and galleries like National Museum (Singapore), Art Science Museum (Singapore), Gare St. Sauveur (France), Baandam Museum (Thailand), Moniker Art Fair (London), Coney Island Art Walls (USA), Wynwood Walls (USA), ‘Magic City’ (Munich, Dresden and Sweden) and have also appeared in various international publications.
It is also important to note that Yok publishes King Brown Magazine. This is available in places across Australia, Europe, Asia, and it is available internationally online. He also currently works closely with Morning Breath Studio.
Yok lives and works in New York.
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Matt Adnate
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Born in Montrose, Victoria on August 29th, 1984, Matt Adnate immersed himself in urban street culture during his youth, embracing graffiti, music, fashion, and skateboarding.
After completing school, he adopted the name 'Adnate,' inspired by Italian poet Dante Alighieri. His passion for art was ignited.
Adnate's career in street art began when a local Real Estate commissioned him to paint a mural in North Melbourne. This initial project led to further commissions in Carlton's Lygon Street precinct, where he depicted Tuscan landscapes and iconic Italian imagery.
In 2007, Adnate moved to Barcelona, Spain, immersing himself in the city's vibrant street art scene. Collaborating with The AWOL Crew from 2006 to 2014, he produced large-scale murals across Melbourne suburbs, blending abstraction, portraiture, and surrealism.
Adnate's reputation grew, leading to international opportunities in Germany, India, South Africa, and the USA. Throughout his travels, he developed a deep connection with indigenous peoples, incorporating their stories of resilience into his work.
Before painting portraits of First Nations individuals, Adnate consults community elders for guidance, often conducting workshops to empower local artists.
Notable projects include a twenty-story mural in Collingwood, Melbourne, celebrating multiculturalism, and a mega-mural for The Adnate hotel in Perth.
Adnate's work is showcased globally, from the streets of London, Paris, and New York to galleries in Berlin, Barcelona, and Melbourne, reflecting his commitment to cultural exchange and social justice.
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Jacob Butler (Shakey)
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Jacob Butler (Shakey) is a young, self-taught artist based in Fremantle. Jacob works in many mediums including acrylics, oils, pastel and aerosol.
Jacob’s essential tremor that existed from birth got him branded ‘Shakey’, giving him his unique, free-flowing, intuitive style.
Jacob’s art career began on the wharf in 2013, where he experimented using paint and colour for the first time whilst decorating his workmate’s hard-hats. The demand for Jacob’s artwork grew fast as well as his passion and drive to become a real artist. Since becoming a full-time artist he has been invited to paint live in front of large audiences for private concerts, gala balls, weddings and large charity events internationally, with his paintings yielding very successful results due to the raw energy put into his work whilst under pressure. Jacob’s passion and energy for art is contagious, his mission is not only to be the best artist that he can be, but also to inspire others to get painting. This was recently recognized within his nomination for a Disability Support Award, due to his successful art workshops catered for those living with disabilities. His story has been covered by the West Australian, Channel 7's Today Tonight, Radio and an award winning short film titled: Shakey’s Story.
He ran his first successful co-exhibition with his wife Ange Butler in 2017. He is currently working on large scale murals and performing live wedding art in and around Australia. Between commissions he also continues his art works-shops for people with disabilities and is working towards his second exhibition.
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Philip Hansen
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Philip Hansen b. 1950 - Artist (Painter) Taught by his mother and other older community members in South Guildford, WA. Noongar artist based in Collie whose work is in the collection of the Curtin University of Technology in Perth.
Philip Hansen, Noongar artist, was born at Katanning, Western Australia, in 1950. He spent his early childhood with his parents at the Carrolup Native Settlement near Katanning and was taken to Wandering Mission (also known as the St Francis Xavier Mission) when he was nine years old. After he left the mission in his early teens, he went to South Guildford, just to the east of Perth, to be with his mother, Marjorie Hansen . There he would sit with his mother and other older community members at Allawah Grove, which was situated close to the Swan River and full of wildlife, while they created paperbark paintings with Indian ink to be sold in shops around the town. Hansen started painting with them when he was fourteen; he was also inspired by an old Aboriginal artist from Perth called King Wally, who admired his style and gave him encouragement at this early stage. From that point on he created landscapes containing Aboriginal people and kangaroos on paperbark and canvas. His artistic practice became more established after he met his wife in Perth, and the sale of his paintings kept their young family going financially. Hansen and his wife (married in 1971) lived together in Perth for several years before deciding to return to the southwest region of Western Australia, where they’d grown up, to make a home in Collie. Together they have six children and seventeen grandchildren. In a conversation with the author, Hansen described the way he painted in a shed out the back of his property, and enjoyed teaching painting and drawing techniques to his grandchildren (pers. comm, 2009).
Hansen’s work has been acquired by the Collie Shire Council and the Shire of Busselton. Hunting by Sunset (2004), is held in the Curtin University of Technology Art Collection. This painting was acquired by Larry Foley from an exhibition of Indigenous artists from the southwest of Western Australia that Foley helped to organise at the Tom Hoad Cup (an international water polo competition) at the Melville Water Polo Club in Bicton, Western Australia. Foley donated it to the Curtin University of Technology Art Collection in 2005. The work was included in the 'Noongar Native Title: Works from the Curtin University of Technology Art Collection’ exhibition at the gallery in 2007. Hansen’s work was also included in the 'Beyond Carrolup’ exhibition at the Central TAFE Art Gallery in Perth (2009).
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Mikaela Miller
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Mikaela Miller is a young Western Australian artist, working out of a studio at Goolugatup Heathcote. Trained in both design and community development, she works as a public artist, studio painter, printmaker, digital artist and arts facilitator. Her practice is driven by a keen interest in the natural world. How it connects us to each other and our surroundings. The evolution of landscapes, biodiversity and the significance of plant species to place or local narratives. The details, growth and function of plants and all of their parts.
Mikaela’s work has evolved through observing unique features of specific species and exaggerating these through the manipulation of line. These ‘signature florals’ can be found painted onto walls across metro and regional WA, with a catalogue of over 35 public art commissions. Including murals for No More Blank Walls; Kalgoorlie HeARTwalk and the Collie Mural Trail, some of WA’s most recent, leading street art trails and festivals.
Currently her work is evolving to focus in further on specific moments in nature that capture her attention. Combining her love for line with texture and pattern. Layering specific details from a landscape to create forms and surfaces.
Her obsession with flowers runs back to her childhood - growing up in her Grandparents’ prize-winning garden. She would watch her Pop arrange bouquets and vases for display.- witnessing how their yard full of blooms impacted the wider community. These flowers permeated simple human interactions, facilitating generosity, reflection, joy and connection.
Her dedication to investigating species that are specific to each work’s locale is how she begins trying to understand a place. Just like her Grandparents’ garden - flora can be its own landmark. The variation of species across landscapes has been integral to way-finding, or understanding the significance of a place since the beginning of human intelligence. She also feels it’s important to explore a place, not only for what it is now but for what it once was and what it could be (or could have been).
Mikaela has exhibited in an array of group shows across Perth (Boorloo), Fremantle (Walyallup), Kalgoorlie, Dwellingup and Collie. She also had a small solo exhibition in 2019. This same year, her interview with Gardening Australia was televised on the National ABC Television Network. In 2021 Vicinity Shopping Centres commissioned a festive gift wrap artwork, which was rolled out across major shopping centres in WA and South Australia, and will be distributed nationwide come Christmas 2022.
Mikaela is part of the Blankwalls artist family and in 2021 became a full member of the Swan River Print Studio.
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Seantelle Walsh (Kardy Kreations)
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Seantelle Walsh is a contemporary Noongar artist known for her beautiful illustrations and line work.
Born and raised in Boorloo, Perth, Seantelle's work is influenced by her cultural heritage, with her mother's maternal ancestry connecting to the Wilman Tribe from Gnaala Kala Boodja region, and her mother's paternal heritage having connections to the erenjori Ballardong area.
Seantelle's art proudly expresses her culture. Through her work, Seantelle uses art as a platform for storytelling and draws inspiration from the world around her, conveying her spiritual connection to Boodja (Country) through her art.
Seantelle has worked across Western Australia under her trade name Kardy Kreations. Seantelle’s diverse practice involves studio-based paintings, digital work, murals and public art.
Michael Phillips
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Michael Phillips is a muralist local to Perth Western Australia.
He paints bold, minimalist murals with designed from a geometric grid similar to patchwork quilts. This allows for striking yet simple figures that can be painted to any scale. He has developed a vast collection of local flora and fauna designs.
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Marina Lomerse
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“Conceived Lake Victoria, Tanganyika. Born Lincolnshire, England. Brought up in Canada. Based in Fremantle, Australia. My wanderlust has taken me around the world and through several careers.
“I began as an Interior architect in Canada and the UK, specializing in hospitality and workplace design. I moved to Australia to establish the interior architecture department at Curtin University and extended its programs into Singapore and Malaysia. My research focused on indigenous spatial meaning, placemaking and community building. This led to consulting to FORM, facilitating workshops for clusters of artist-makers in developing, exhibiting, and marketing new products. FORM is Western Australia’s Peak Body for the creative economy.
“I create paintings, installations, sculptures and wearable art inspired by my travels. My art focuses on the natural world. I engage in research about place, memory and community to create responsive works. I studied Natural History illustration at the University of Newcastle, Australia and paint endemic species: wildflowers, fauna, and environments. My botanical work extends into ephemeral paper flower installations for Crown Casino Resorts, FORM, the City of Claremont, and a community art-making project in Myanmar. My work tells stories, stirs the senses, and makes people smile.
“I have exhibited in Australia, Italy and Myanmar. I have curated exhibitions and written books on social sustainability and community engagement. I am part of a network of collaborators who initiate artist-led, community-engaged projects for activating public spaces and connecting people.
“My award-winning creative work won funding from the Australian ASEAN Council (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), Australia Council for the Arts, Department of Local Government, Sport and Cultural Industries, Government of Western Australia, the City of Fremantle, the Shire of Collie and Curtin University. I hold a Master of Design and a Bachelor of Interior Architecture.” —Marina Lommerse
Jade Dolman (J.D. Penangke)
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Jade Dolman aka JD Penangke is a First Nations mural artist whose work is deeply inspired by her connections to Whadjuk, Ballardong, and Arrernte country. Drawing on her heritage Jade’s art explores the cultural significance of waterways as well as the environmental and cultural loss caused by the degradation of wetlands. Through vibrant symbolism and colour her murals offer a bird’s-eye perspective of country before colonisation, mapping the movements of Noongar people and local flora and fauna.
With over 9 years experience in mural painting Jade has become a prominent figure in the West Australian art scene. Her notable projects include designing the 2025 Indigenous All Stars guernsey, the Sherrin official game ball, the 2024 men’s and women’s Hawthorn AFL Indigenous guernseys, and the 2021—2023 Scorchers Indigenous kit. In 2024 Jade’s work continued to shine with a mural for Nespresso Karrinyup, a painted cruise ship gangway for Fremantle Ports, and her debut solo exhibition Boybidi / Smoke Trails. Additionally she was named a finalist in the 2024 Young Achiever Awards for Indigenous Community Leadership and was awarded 2023 Young Entrepreneur of the Year presented by Indigenous Emerging Business Forum.
Jade’s artistry is not just a reflection of her heritage; it is a powerful vehicle for storytelling, cultural preservation and environmental advocacy.
The name J.D. Penangke comes from Jade Dolman’s initials and Penangke (pronounced pen-ung-gah) is her skin name which she inherited from her Father’s line.
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Kambarni (Kamsani Bin-Salleh)
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Kamsani is an artist whose works are inspired by the natural world and the interplay between pre and post-colonial Australian narratives. He has worked closely with the community members and in particular elders from the Ballardong Noongar people and Nimunburr and Yawuru people, translating their histories into contemporary visual art.
Kam is a prolific artist, designer, and illustrator. You’ll find several of his painted murals, as well as projection works, around Perth city and surrounds in Yagan Square, Subiaco, East Perth, Melville and more, along with private commissions everywhere from local schools to the Sydney Opera House. Kam has extended his practice into the built environment to translate two dimensional illustrations into large scale public artwork that explore Kam’s ideas through texture and pattern in built form, including works at Curtin University and John Forrest Secondary College.
Kam has an invaluable skill set as a storyteller. He is able to work with traditional owners and elders to identify narratives attached to place and translate those histories into other mediums. Lending a
richness and depth to any potential artwork and stylised artworks that offer a unique perspective and connect to a strong local narrative, exploring the balance between the natural world and built form.
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Donald Cook
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Donald Cook is a self-taught artist who focuses on old-school brush painting. He is local to Collie, Western Australia.
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Guido van Helten
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Guido van Helten is an Australian born visual artist and photographer (1986). He is an internationally recognised artist creating contemporary street art throughout the world which is underpinned by his exploration of community and identity generated through photography and large-scale mural installations.
Born in Canberra and growing up in inner city Melbourne, Australia, the artist was influenced at a young age by traditional graffiti movements leading to an early introduction aerosol at a young age. After graduating with a Bachelor of Visual Arts majoring in Printmaking at Southern Cross University, Guido began the development of his contemporary work now closely aligned with the movement of large-scale muralism across the world. His work has developed out of his keen interests in travel, photography, architecture and learning about cultures in connection with their landscapes.
Receiving attention for his work in regional communities around Australia, Guido was nominated for the Sir John Sulman prize at the Art Gallery of NSW in 2016 for his work in the community of Brim, Victoria. These interests and his ability to work on large-scale projects have spurred commissions across the world throughout Europe, Scandinavia, the United States and Australia
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