Si Hummerston
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Si is an accomplished professional public artist who has been creating work for more than a quarter of a century since graduating from the Claremont School of Art. Over 25 of his distinctive, robust and often quirky sculptures are sited throughout WA. Other sculptures and paintings are in private collections.
Constructing with a broad range of materials including timber, mild steel, aluminium, copper, bronze and reused items such as car panels and street signs, Si creates both 2D and 3D works. His public sculptures are often monumental and built to withstand the elements and a high level of human interaction. Kinetic, interactive and mechanical elements also feature in some of his sculptural works.
Local flora and fauna are common references to help tie the significance of the site to the surrounding environment. But Si’s personal interests stretch to cars and toys, which often emerge in his artworks teamed with a sense of whimsy, nostalgia and a nod to popular culture.
Visit: sihummerston.com, lintonandkay.com.au
Ron Gomboc
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Ratimir Marijan "Ron" Gomboc is an Australian sculptor.
Born in 1947 in Ljubljana, Slovenia, Yugoslavia, he received his early schooling in the town of Novi Vinodolski, Croatia. At the age of 13 he emigrated to Australia with his parents.
On arriving in Australia he worked as a cabinet maker and builder before joining the Australian Army in 1969. After finishing his National Service in 1971 he enrolled in an art course at Claremont School of Art. During the 1970s he studied art and sculpture at Midland Technical College and Perth Technical College. At Midland he came under the tutelage of Guy Grey-Smith, a notable modernist artist.
In 1982 he opened the Gomboc Gallery Sculpture Park in Middle Swan on the outskirts of Perth. In 1994 Ron Gomboc won the Mandorla Art Award with a wood, bronze, and copper sculpture called At the Gates.
After the death of actor Heath Ledger, Gomboc was commissioned to create a memorial sculpture that was installed at Point Heathcote in Applecross. The three piece sculpture features yin and yang and a chessboard, a reference to Ledger's spiritual beliefs and his love of chess. Gomboc had been a friend of the Ledger family for over 30 years.
Gomboc was commissioned in 2011 by the Australian Film Institute to design a statuette for the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards.
Peter McMeikan
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Peter McMeikan is an accomplished and awarded commercial artist working mainly in metal- formed sculpture through commercial commissions and government sectors.
Elliott Routledge (Numskull, Funskull)
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Elliott Routledge, born in Tokyo, Japan, is a contemporary abstract artist living and working out of Sydney. Known for his public art installations around Australia and throughout parts of the world, his work exists in a balance between expressive mark-making, abstract form and small to large-scale figurative sculpture.
Routledge presents paintings and sculptural pieces which are influenced by his exterior outdoor public practice, which go from small intimate works to large scale canvas paintings that demand attention and react to the architecture that surrounds. It’s within this process of painting facades where the correlation to people and their own facades, human experience and mortality becomes apparent. Routledge takes visual data from experience, feeling, or physical objects and rearranges them into abstract portraits.
Routledge’s landmark mural in Pitt Street, Sydney was a feature of the Art & About Festival in Sydney and also the SODO Track international mural festival in Seattle, USA. As part of his 2014 residency in Vienna, his work was shown in the Museums Quartier, and is held in numerous private collections.
Melski (Mel McVee)
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Mel is a Perth born multi-disciplinary artist working primarily in the realms of community art, murals, sculpture, and illustration. With a Fine Arts degree in Sculpture, her interests in street art emerged through a passion for community activation projects in her local area.
Aesthetically their work deals with the idea of lines and connection. Their cartographic background of creating maps for the environmental industry, piqued their fascination in the way the world can be shaped in absolutes. They use solid colours and shapes to creatively define an area, an idea or a relationship. Their work reflects the stylisation seen in linocut prints or stain glass windows, while the colour they use invokes a sense of nostalgia within the surrounding environment.
Their work is simultaneously whimsical and personal and reflect cultural and historic elements of the locations in which they are painted. A celebration of what is locally beautiful and quintessentially Australian
Their clients have included various local schools and community town teams and various local governments located all over the state of Western Australia and Tasmania. Private organisations include the Woodside, Rio Tinto, Sheraton Hotel, Buchan Architects, RAC, Watercorp, Knight Frank, Stockland, WA Police, National Gallery of Australia, Perth Convention Centre, MRA, Vicinity Centres, Perron Group, Artsource and FORM.
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Matthew McVeigh
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Matthew McVeigh is an interdisciplinary artist that graduated from the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts 2008, majoring in Design for Live Performance.
Matt's practice is best described as process and collaboratively driven, working across theatre, public art and community art. He has worked in the areas of dance, physical theatre, musicals, opera and puppetry. In the community sector he has worked in correctional facilities, with youth at risk, disability services and remote Aboriginal and regional communities.
His practice is predominately interested in how identities, histories and institutions can be consumed and subsumed into homogenized narratives through the vehicle of “Art Making”. He employs a wide range of materials, processes, technologies and semiotics to create work that is often bold and layered with nuance and meaning. His work can be found in institutions and private collections nationally and internationally.
Matthew continues to work on the Wu Rut Woorat in a studio on a heritage site on the banks of the Derbarl Yerrigan on Whadjuk Nyoongar country.
Martin E. Wills (MEW)
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“Artist interested in Science Fiction Catastrophe// Manufactured Meat Men // Improbable Hairstyles. Murals, canvas, paper, digital, animation. Melbourne.”
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Luke O’Donohoe
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Luke O’Donohoe is a Western Australian artist working across murals, public art installations, commercial sign painting & graphic design.
His inclination towards typography and graphic design driven approaches to art making, is born out of the lasting impressions made by sign painting and advertising and design methods. Woven through his larger murals and smaller studio works is a recurring investigation into current and classic incarnations of the shared contemporary Australian vernacular as well as reflections on important mechanisms for social cohesion.
Judith Forrest
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Judith Forrest is an English born Artist and a former Senior Lecturer and Program Manager at Claremont School of Art and Central Tafe in Perth, Western Australia. Her professional practice spans more than 30 years. Judith's paintings, sculptures and public artworks can be seen around Western Australia. The intention of her work is to create a link between the small incidents of daily life and the more profound experience generated by an enjoyment of visual art.
“The intention of my work is to create a link between the small incidents of daily life and the more profound experience generated by an enjoyment of visual art.
My professional practice spans more than 30 years in Australia. Formerly Senior Lecturer and Program Manager at Claremont School of Art and Central Tafe in Perth, my paintings, sculptures and public artworks can be seen around Western Australia.” Judith Forrest
Visit: judithforrestartworks.com.au, instagram.com/judithforrest, artsource.net.au
Jae Criddle
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Jae Criddle is an Australian emerging painter and sculptor. Jae is interested in intuitive approaches to art making, working mostly with oil, acrylic, monoprint, collage, plaster and clay.
Inventing off-kilter compositions and objects, she embraces loose and crooked shapes. By letting the materials, textures, layers and colour take the lead, this materiality becomes the primary subject. The recurring symbolism and background themes are almost always connected to landscape and place, considering internal and external territories and trying to capture the intangible.
Being self taught, with a background in design, this has undoubtedly influenced her process and some of the figurative and abstract elements of her visual language.
“I make naive, usually figurative work and like getting caught up in distortion or exaggeration.
My illustration and mural work is different to my painting or sculpture work, they are quite separate practices for me. I feel differently about them and approach them differently. My illustration work is pared back and playful. I focus on expression and am attracted to settings that are a little jarring or uncanny. With all of my artwork I try to achieve a particular mood or atmosphere and I like loose and spontaneous mark-making.” Jae Criddle
Jerome Davenport (Ketones6000)
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Jerome Davenport is a visual artist with a background in Aerosol, scenic art, prop construction and set building.
Jennifer Cochrane
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Jennifer’s practice is predominantly object based. She has exhibited throughout Australia and internationally, including large-scale permanent works and intimate site specific installations.
At the core of her practice is an emphasis on process oriented production. This production inevitably involves repetitive labour-intensive techniques to create works that investigate notions of interpretation and point of view.
Visit: jennifercochrane.com.au
Jarrad Martyn
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Jarrad Martyn (b. Aberdeen, 1991) is an Australian artist based in Melbourne. His practice explores humanity’s relationship with the natural environment, and the framing and evolution of historical events. By responding to a wide range of imagery, from archival photo albums to found and artificial imagery, Martyn is interested in the movement of these images through time - how the legacy of symbols and motifs transform to produce a range of new associations in the present.
Through collapsing the distinctions between figuration and abstraction in painting, drawing, and collage, Martyn creates a state of flux - visually representing something that is not fixed and is constantly changing. By hindering precise representation and creating an ambiguous sense of place, Martyn encourages the viewer to shift between modes of thinking and looking, deducing links and deciphering their own conclusions about the events unfolding, and the symbolic meanings within.
Martyn's work is held in numerous public and private collections, including the Gippsland Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Edith Cowan University, Curtin University, City of Perth, City of Joondalup, Shire of Mundaring, City of Yarra, Schmidt Ocean Institute, and St John of God Hospital Art Collection among others. Martyn has been awarded in various national art prizes, most notably winning the John Stringer Art Prize (2018), the City of Joondalup Community Invitation Art Award Overall Acquisitive Award (2017), the Fifty Squared Art Prize (2021), the Mayor's Award for the Nillumbik Prize for Contemporary Art (2023), and the People’s Choice Award for the John Leslie Art Prize (2024). He has also been a finalist in a wide selection of awards, commissions, and grants, including exhibiting at the Frost Museum of Science as part of Art Basel Miami (2023).
Martyn’s practice also extends into the public sphere, with large-scale commissions for council and commercial murals. His work can be seen in the Shire of Collie (WA), Rochester (VIC), City of Fremantle (WA), City of Swan (WA), and the Newman Hotel in the Pilbara (WA), among others.
Shane Hughes (I’m The Boss)
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"Pop culture lives for us and we live for pop culture. The shape of the world a choice made in ignorance and innocence. Touch, taste, hear, smell and see things for face value or under the microscope. Accept it still at its first impression or analyze it threw the guise of the daily grind. Wake up as a child free or fall asleep an adult in routine. Everyday Choose to be influenced by the beginning, prevent the start of the conclusion."
Visit: www.imtheboss.com.au
Gillie and Marc Schattner
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British and Australian artists, Gillie and Marc have been called “the most successful and prolific creators of public art in New York’s History” by the New York Times. Creating some of the world’s most innovative public sculptures, Gillie and Marc are redefining what public art should be, spreading messages of love, equality, and conservation around the world. Their highly coveted sculptures and paintings can be seen in art galleries and public sites in over 250 cities. These include monumental public exhibitions for wildlife, including The Last Three (NYC), King Nyani (NYC), and The Orphans (London).
The artists are best known for their beloved characters, Rabbitwoman and Dogman, who tell the autobiographical tale of two opposites coming together to become best friends and soul mates. As unlikely animal kingdom companions, the Rabbit and the Dog stand for diversity and acceptance through love. Gillie and Marc believe art is a powerful platform for change. Their art is multi-disciplinary, paying homage to the importance of togetherness, as well as the magnificence of the natural world, and the necessity of preserving it – for we are it, and it is us.
Gillie and Marc have a special spiritual connection to the world and its animals and are passionate eco-warriors. Gillie grew up in Zambia and realised her love for art by sketching all the wonderful wildlife that surrounded her, falling in love with the captivating creatures with each drawing she created. Tragically, she saw an elephant brutally shot one day. This had a profound impact on her as a young child and from then on she vowed to dedicate her life and work to protecting Earth’s innocent animals. While in his twenties, Marc fell in love with conservation on a trip to Tanzania to see the chimpanzees. He gained a deep appreciation of all living things in their interconnectivity and the importance of protecting the delicate balance of nature.
Visit: www.gillieandmarc.com
Georgia HIll
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Georgia Hill (b.1988) is a multidisciplinary Australian artist, based in Paris, France. Her practice moves through the international street art and contemporary art worlds, focusing on type-based, monochromatic artworks and installations.
"I perceive architecture and landscapes as both physical and psychological, using my own visual language and writing to respond to changing sites and experiences. I'm constantly collecting references, photography and notes, and manipulating these across painted canvases, installations and fabric banner works. This documentation acts as a personal account and starting point to abstract, break down and forge my own scenes, emphasising fragments of conversation and emotion through abstracted or exaggerated scale, type and composition.
Rather than working towards a final aesthetic, I'm constantly responding to sites through different mediums, language, and scale, where I use spaces to inform and express moments of vulnerability, clarity and total overwhelm. My work moves within the predetermined lines of existing structures and facades, as monochromatic pieces emphasise a specific moment by cutting through the endless visual cues we take in every day. This approach embraces a constant duality, where controlled, tight lettering pushes against the always changing nature of shared spaces and experiences".
Hill has proved herself to be one of Australia’s leading street artists with a contemporary and conscious touch to her materials, surrounds and conceptual approach, working throughout Australia, New Zealand, Indonesia, India, Japan, Jordan, Iceland, Canada, and The United States.
Visit: www.georgiahill.com.au
George Domahidy
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George Domahidy is an expert in large scale public art, mural design, and creative community events.
Based in WA, George works across remote, regional, and metro Australia. He also works abroad in EU/UK and Asia.
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Fintan Magee
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Fintan Magee is a Sydney based social realist painter, specializing in large-scale murals. Born in 1985 in Lismore, New South Wales, to an architect mother and father who was a sculptor, he started drawing at a young age. His earlier large-scale paintings often inhabited the isolated, abandoned and broken corners of the city, and today are found all over the world including in London, Vienna, Los Angeles, Miami, Atlanta, Buenos Aires, Copenhagen, Kyiv, Rome, Jordan, and Dublin among others.
Magee’s practice is informed by a profound interest in political murals, inspired by exposure at a young age to those of his father’s native Northern Ireland. This is reflected in the socialist nature of his public artworks, which combine journalistic elements with public art. Magee’s work is driven by his recognition of the power of murals to communicate political and social viewpoints and thus divide or unite communities.
Drawing from personal experience and the mundane, his figurative paintings are deeply integrated with the urban environment and explore themes of diversity, migration and transition, waste and consumption, loss, and the environment. His works exude an inherent sentimentality and softness influenced by children’s books and the Low Brow art movement.
In recent years, Magee has solidified his position as one of Australia’s leading public artists and has traveled extensively, completing projects in countries across the world, including Belarus, India, Jordan, Spain, Tahiti, USA, among many others. His recent solo exhibitions are ‘Big Dry’ at Think Space in Los Angeles (2018), ‘Waves’ at Mathgoth Gallery in Paris (2017) and ‘Water World’ at Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne (2016).
Magee has been featured in the Sydney Morning Herald, Juxtapoz Magazine, ABC News, The Australian, The Urban Contemporary Art Guide (2014, 2015), Street Art Australia (Lou Chamberlain), Graffiti Art (FR) Home & Design : Trends Magazine, Surface (Soren Solker) (DK), among others.
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Fergus McFudge (Fudge)
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Fergus McFudge (Fudge) is an artist, printmaker and mural painter.
In order to propose to his girlfriend McFudge once painted a mural reading “Bree, will you marry me?” on a Mary Street building. The mural included check boxes marked ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ and a P.S. ‘There is no [diamond]’. Bree Pearce accepted the proposal.
Desmond Mah
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Desmond Mah / 马福民 (b. 1974, Singapore; Singaporean-Australian, based in Boorloo/Perth) explores the tactile richness of paint through line-based mark-making and a paint-weaving technique that evokes the textures of textiles. This technique, a tribute to his mother's seamstress work, suggests the processes of threading, unravelling, and reweaving. Drawing inspiration from the aesthetics of natural history illustrations and documentary practices, Mah critically engages with problematic colonial narratives, specifically those found within historical archives and museum collections. These archival materials become a resource to challenge and reframe perspectives. Furthermore, Mah expands his painting practice, like integrating audio to create immersive experiences that deepen the viewer's engagement with his work.
Mah earned a BA (Hons) in Painting from Loughborough University, UK (1998), supported by a Lee Foundation (Singapore) scholarship, and a diploma from LaSalle College of the Arts, Singapore (1997). Prior to beginning his practice in 2017, he worked in art education and horticulture. Of Hainanese, Kinmen, and Singaporean descent, Mah migrated to Australia as a teenager in the 1980s, a period of heightened hostility towards the Asian diaspora in Boorloo.
Mah's achievements include the E.SUN Bank Special Selection Prize (Taiwan, 2022) and the Southern Buoy Studios Portrait Prize (Australia, 2021). He has been awarded grants and participated in numerous exhibitions, residencies, and commissions, notably the Fremantle Arts Centre Studio Program (2023) and two Red Gate Residencies (Beijing, 2018). His works are held in notable collections. Recent highlights include being a finalist for the Collie Art Prize 2025 and participation in the Indian Ocean Craft Triennial at Mossenson Galleries (Australia, 2024).
