Andrew Frazer
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Andrew Frazer is a multidisciplinary artist from Gelorup, Western Australia.
Influenced by the dynamic Australian landscape, shared stories & the family home, Andrew’s art invites the viewer in through subtle textures, abstracted typography & movement through carefully considered form. Andrew has been commissioned by various clients from around the world in commercial & private settings.
In extension to his own practise, Andrew is the Founder & Creative Director of Six Two Three Zero - an independent, Bunbury based initiative that seeks to use street art as a catalyst for urban development & social change by bringing communities together in conversation & creative inspiration. It is responsible for Directing & Managing the following mural festivals: ReDiscover Bunbury, ReDiscover Armadale & Collie Mural Trail.
Visit: andrewfrazerdesigns.com
Penny Bovell
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Penny Bovell (born 1956) is a Western Australian artist. In 1999, Bovell received a master's degree in Fine Art from the University of Western Australia, Perth, following her completion in 1993 of a postgraduate diploma in Visual Arts from Curtin University.
She has exhibited regularly, as well as lectured in studio practice and art history at the University of Western Australia and Curtin University in Perth.
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Bungaan (Joanne Parfitt)
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Local Artist Joanne Parfitt (artist name Bungaan) is a Noongar Balladong woman born in Midland, who has lived in the Swan area all of her life.
Joanne draws inspiration from childhood memories, bush tucker and the Country around Swan and York to create her paintings on canvas, river stones, terracotta pots and wooden bowls, which she has done for 28 years.
She is also passionate about sharing her knowledge with younger generations, as she grew up learning painting from her parents.
Visit: slwa.wa.gov.au
Audrey Fernandes-Satar
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Dr Audrey Fernandes-Satar was born in postindependence India. She grew up within a microcosm of stories of freedom and activism – collective memories that were shared or she overhead, and then kept safe in an imaginary repository somewhere in her mind. After her family moved to Mozambique and lived under Portuguese colonial rule, Audrey began recalling these memories and drawing in charcoal from her mother’s stove on pavements and walls, while walking in and out of the city.
An academic and researcher, she follows the thread of stories, which lead her to the uncovering of conflicting histories. Audrey’s artwork traverses poetic text, painting, sculpture, drawing and altered photographs. It is characterised by a willingness to engage with complex historical events – looking for symbols, grappling with history, and altering documentation from institutions, museums and galleries.
Audrey holds a Fine Arts Degree from the School of Fine Arts, University of Lisbon, Portugal, and a PhD from Murdoch University, Perth where she lectures in Cultural Studies.
Audrey Fernandes-Satar is partnered with Arif Satar and they often work in tandem.
Arif Satar and Audrey Fernandes-Satar are visual artists living and working in Walyalup (Fremantle), Whadjuk Noongar Country.
Working individually and in collaboration, their practices intersect through a shared interest in uncovering complex memories and histories, both personal and collective. Across sculpture, drawing, text, printmaking, sound and the moving image, Satar and Fernandes-Satar draw from ancestral stories, rituals and crafting techniques to create a rich dialogue between the past and the present.
Migrants many times over, the pair forge a line of inquiry grounded in understandings of the intricate practices that tether and connect. Traversing themes of displacement, home, identity, history, and politics – their work is characterised by a sensitive interrogation of material, and an exploration of methods of expression.
Together, Satar and Fernandes-Satar have exhibited works, undertaken socially-engaged community art projects and created art for public spaces, both in Australia and overseas.
Arif and Audrey’s multidisciplinary practice centrally positions the knowledge, experiences and needs of the community in which they work. Authentic community engagement informs the conceptualisation and development of artworks.
Visit: aandasatar.com, wfac.org.au
Arif Satar
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Arif Satar was born in the Island of Mozambique on the southeast coast of Africa. Growing up under Portuguese fascist and colonial rule his sense of identity was enmeshed with a feeling of otherness, although then he couldn’t quite articulate why or how. Today an investigation of his Indian-African-Arabic background is intrinsically embedded within his art practice, which draws upon on densities of heritage, memory, contemporary literature and history.
He works with printmaking, ceramics, the moving image and sculpture. Weaving across his work are references to the forms and materials encountered in childhood, from the majestic mosque minaret opposite his family home, to the missangas and capulana cloth sold in his parents’ little shopfront.
Arif holds an Environmental Science degree from Murdoch University, Perth, and has studied artmaking methods and materials, extending the tradition of ceramics that he learned at a young age.
Arif Satar is partnered with Audrey Fernandes-Satar and their work is very often done in tandem.
Arif Satar and Audrey Fernandes-Satar are visual artists living and working in Walyalup (Fremantle), Whadjuk Noongar Country.
Working individually and in collaboration, their practices intersect through a shared interest in uncovering complex memories and histories, both personal and collective. Across sculpture, drawing, text, printmaking, sound and the moving image, Satar and Fernandes-Satar draw from ancestral stories, rituals and crafting techniques to create a rich dialogue between the past and the present.
Migrants many times over, the pair forge a line of inquiry grounded in understandings of the intricate practices that tether and connect. Traversing themes of displacement, home, identity, history, and politics – their work is characterised by a sensitive interrogation of material, and an exploration of methods of expression.
Together, Satar and Fernandes-Satar have exhibited works, undertaken socially-engaged community art projects and created art for public spaces, both in Australia and overseas.
Arif and Audrey’s multidisciplinary practice centrally positions the knowledge, experiences and needs of the community in which they work. Authentic community engagement informs the conceptualisation and development of artworks.
Visit: aandasatar.com, wfac.org.au
Martin Jaine
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Martin was born in New Zealand in the mid 60’s and came to Australia in 1989.
He’s been a farmer, antiques dealer, builder and sculptor. He started Martin Jaine Sculptures in 2011, where he focuses primarily on transforming various recycled materials, such as rustic metals, into stunning, handmade pieces of art.
Visit: martinjaine instagram
Gordon Mitchell
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Gordon Mitchell is an artist, designer and sculptor.
He has a successful background in the Visual Arts – Graphic Design, Art Education and Art practice.
His multidisciplinary practice is currently focused on the design and creation of site specific sculpture.
He has exhibited at Sculpture by the Sea Cottesloe and Bondi. Gordon has been commissioned by private collectors as well as Corporate and Public
Authorities.
Sharon Peterkin
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Sharon Peterkin is an Australian multidisciplinary artist. She is a painter, sculptor, and muralist.
“I am a Visual Artist and what I love most of all is simply "making". I've dabbled in Ceramics, Jewel[lry]”
Anya Brock
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Iconic Australian Artist Anya Brock is best known for her spirited and bold use of colour and strokes, exploring the connection between amplification and emotional mark making, creating a distinctive visual language in all her work.
Identifying strongly with the abstract expressionists hailing from 1950’s America, Anya sees her work as semi abstracted interpretations of her subjects. Employing organic exaggeration and distortion - the work is recognizably figurative without entering realism.
Anya’s connection to her subject matter provides only a guide for shape and composition, a vehicle in which to experiment with paint application. Conversely, her girls and nude work portray a sensual feminine strength that is intriguing yet non-threatening; bare yet courageous.
Ever the explorer, Anya’s background in fashion design saw her launch her own fashion label from ages 19-26, and consequently working with some of the most prominent British Fashion houses including Christopher Kane and Richard Nicoll.
After an internal awakening, Anya realized that the fashion industry didn’t suit her and she returned to her artistic roots in painting and drawing. She quickly gained notoriety in the Australian art world and opened her first flagship store in Sydney in 2014 and a gallery in Fremantle in 2013.
Anya’s colourful original paintings and prints of close-up faces, nudes, portrait-inspired animals and geometric compositions, feature in the interiors of Australia’s most contemporary homes and her larger-than-life murals can be found splashed across walls throughout Los Angeles, Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Fremantle. Her budgie mural that adorned four 10-foot tall windows in Perth was featured in the New York Times.
Anya lives in Fremantle with her partner and children and dedicates her life to her family and her art.
Kevin Bynder
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Kevin Bynder was born in Perth in 1975 to a Whadjuk-Yuet Nyungar Mother and a Widi-Badimia Yamatji Father.
He started painting at the age of 23 in Fitzroy Crossing before moving to Broome where he had his first art studio.
In February 2020, Kevin made the decision to become a fulltime working artist and opened a studio/shop at Yagan Square in Perth. From here, he creates his art and speaks about his culture to local and tourists from interstate and overseas.
Over the last four years Kevin has also worked at LaSalle Catholic College, helping teach Indigenous students from remote communities. Kevin likes to donate his artwork to foundations and fundraisers to support the community and promote aboriginal arts and culture.
As well as selling hundreds of canvases and painting multiple murals across Perth, his designs have appeared on the sporting guernseys of Australia’s leading sporting codes.
Visit: facebook.com, matrixengineered.com
Sam Allen
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Sam Allen is an Australian Muralist with several public pieces in Busselton and Wanneroo, Western Australia. He lives and works in the City of Busselton area.
Visit: youtube.com, facebook.com
Haylee Fieldes (Fieldey)
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Fieldey (A.K.A. Haylee Fieldes) is a multi-disciplinary public artist and muralist who has have been creating large scale art projects in the Perth area and world-wide for over a decade.
With an extensive mix of skills ranging from illustration, mural painting, graphic design and community engagement, Haylee’s artwork is engaging, thorough and unique to each project she undertakes.
In addition to working as a muralist for the past 11 years, Haylee also worked in the corporate design field as a Graphic Designer for over 10 years and has extensive experience working with multiple corporate stakeholders writing briefs and designing projects for companies such as Fremantle Ports, Newmont Mines and the Holiday Inn. Through this, she is well versed in working with clients, responding to client feedback, communicating client changes to team members, and working to deadlines.
Haylee is known for her gorgeous black and white realism juxtaposed with bright semi-abstracted shapes. Her artworks weave together stories of place and are deeply embedded in the landscapes and communities they are in.
Whether through individual or collaborative projects, Haylee’s mission is to continue pushing the boundaries of urban and public art to create works that transform everyday spaces into something extraordinary.
Robert Jenkins
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Robert Jenkins is an artist, illustrator, muralist and film-maker originally from The Black Mountains in Wales, currently residing and working in Perth, Western Australia. Some of his influences come from record covers, skateboard graphics and surrealism. Merging colourful, repetitive and flowing patterns, with occasional figurative aspects that dance and play along with the movement.
Visit: theblackmountainsart.com
Sarasa Krishnan
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Sarasa Krishnan is an Indian classical dancer, visual artist and author who has performed, exhibited and lectured in Europe, UK, USA, Australia and Asia.
"My work, be it through paintings, dancing or writing, investigates the ancient Rasa Theory of Sage Bharata and expounds the notion of 'change in consciousness' in its 'observers' or participants.
The artist through her movement investigates ‘intention’ through colour and the dancer engages rhythmic energy-colour patterns that fuse to create movement. This methodology is ‘in’ performance, underpinning theoretical observations through direct, corporeal, and subjective experience; an experience that enacts a change in consciousness experienced in a present- tense moment.
Through this lived inquiry of the dancer- visual artist, the role and effects of the observer or Self in the Quantum theory and Vedantic philosophy is explicated. It establishes the important foundations Rasa has, in a holistic view of the universe and our relationship to it and re-claims that this profoundly metaphysical view of art and Rasa as a philosophical and spiritual vision, is significant for a re-visioning of theatre itself as well as a way of being." —Sarasa Krishnan
Visit: sarasso.com
Johannes Pannekoek
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Johannes Pannekoek is a Western Australian artist and sculptor combining his skills in creative design, engineering and material finish. Whilst always being involved in artistic pursuits both personally and commercially, he gained a background in engineering after studying at the University of Western Australia and working with his family’s engineering business.
He then commenced a career spanning 25 years in graphic design, branding and business development before pursuing his interest in visual arts. In 2007 & 2008 he studied Applied Environmental Arts at Central TAFE.
His non-objective artwork arises from the process of constructive manipulation of abstract ideas in parabolic curves, spatial relations, volume and line.
Working primarily with ferrous and non-ferrous metals he currently focuses on a methodology requiring some challenging mathematical and fabrication processes resulting in unique sculptures with a quality material finish.
Johannes works from his studio and workshop in Gooseberry Hill where he has the space and equipment to fully design, construct and finish the works himself.
Visit: instagram.com/johannespannekoek salemartworks.org/johannes-pannekoek
Sarah McCloskey
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Sarah McCloskey is a Western Australian visual artist currently based in Sydney.
Working across numerous mediums, her work centres on themes of identity, place and connection. She is particularly drawn to portraiture, finding inspiration in the interplay between the human form and the natural world. Her paintings seek to evoke a sense of intrigue and familiarity, and act as an invitation to consider the universal experiences that connect us all.
Over the past decade, Sarah’s practice has evolved from studio illustration and painting to include large scale public murals, but her focus on people, place and stories has remained at the centre.
Sarah was a finalist in the prestigious 2023 Archibald Prize for Portraiture at the Art Gallery of NSW, and the 2024 Darling Portrait Prize at the National Portrait Gallery.
Visit: sarsar.com.au
Clara Fosca
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Clara Fosca: “I am a versatile artist from Barcelona, open to curiosity and always traveling and living around the world. My fine art background led me into the graffiti world in 2004 to nowadays. Although my professional career had taken me to different fields of the visual arts, from fashion industry to tattooing.
I’m a creative mind that draws inspiration from human temperament and interactions among people, shapes, colours and nature. “
“It can be said that there is a certain admiration for the precious, sometimes mixed with the surreal and compositions with movement.”
Visit: clarafosca.com
Chris Nixon
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Chris Nixon is a visual artist creating across illustration, graphic design, creative direction and public art. Based in Perth, Aus, Chris’s work is inspired by the West Coast and classic surf culture with an emphasis on the handmade and crafted, using colour, texture and pattern across a wide range of media from children’s books to animation, commercial illustration and large artwork installations.
Chris Nixon is represented by The Drawing Arm.
Visit: www.chrisnixon.net
Zach Freshwater (Shadow Kid Smith)
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"From an early age, I was interested in geometric shapes and shapes, and before I knew it, I was obsessed with drawing three-dimensional pictures" (translated)
Too Much Colour
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“TMC are the 3 man, 6 handed large scale mural collective based in Perth WA.”
Too Much Colour are an art collective comprised of Dan Duggan, Lawry Halden and Darren Hutchens.
Too Much Colour are a large-scale mural and community-based project team with vast experience facilitating collaborative youth mural projects. Artists from Too Much Colour actively engage, encourage and support youth from diverse backgrounds to participate in the mural design and painting process.