Akina

Banksy

Beatsman

BEASTMAN is a twenty something year old artist, designer, photographer and all-round creative type person raised in the hills of Sydney. He likes to ride his skateboard on the streets, eat chocolate, bong on, chill out, sleep in, listen to music, read magazines, watch movies and TV, surf the net, hang with Jac and the Turd Ferguson, draw and paint pictures, and capture moments in time with his Nikon FM2. BEASTMAN is also the founder, editor and designer of online publication [weAREtheIMAGEmakers] - watim.com

Ben Frost

Ben Frost is a painter who currently lives and works in Sydney, Australia. His work explores themes of alienation, dispossession, and perversity that exists behind the facade of contemporary western society. By subverting mainstream iconography from the advertising, entertainment and political spectrum he creates a visual and conceptual framework that is bold, confronting and often controversial.

Blek Le Rat

Hugh McCarthy

Hugh McCarthy is based in Ireland and has made a name for himself as a playful organic abstractionist, creating paintings of a dense and sociable kind. His recent work contains amorphous masses and geometric areas of colour that reference product labels, 80's computer games, and advertisements.

Kathie Olivas

Kathie Olivas is an American multimedia artist who resides in Florida. Her work depicts the baby doll, stuffed toys, cartoons, creep show school- rooted in pop art, surrealism, illustration and animation. Weeble-ish animals and children populate Olivas' canvases. These overstuffed bunnies, boys and girls may have started out cute- but trussed up in muzzles and dunce caps- limbless in droopy footed pyjamas, mouths zipped or bolted shut; they are ultimately repulsive.

Kill Pixie

Kill Pixie is a prominent street artist from Sydney. His latest work, Kill Communication, is about "when communication dies, the world descends into turmoil. War, pestilence, and dysentery reign. But we can be saved from the perils of silence. A new medium of understanding is upon us. Soul to soul through eye beam radio waves - this is the language of Kill Pixie. This is the dawn of Kill Communication."

Kostas Seremetis

Kostas Seremetis lives and works in New York, and is a recognized painter of pulp iconography. He has established a large international following, exhibiting in major art centres around the world; Tokyo, Paris, Vancouver, London, New York and Los Angeles, to name a few. Seremetis is "constantly looking in the desert, looking for inspiration. The new sound. The new color. The new new." Kostas successfully transcends the world of street art from which he emerged to stand among the ranks of America's foremost artistic vision.

Meggs

Meggs' artwork reflects his background in graffiti art, skateboarding, illustration and design. Recognised for his stencils and aerosol art throughout the CBD and surrounding suburbs, Meggs has evolved his skills in painting, illustration and screen printing to explore his own unique style of character work from both wall to canvas. His work can be found predominantly around the streets of Melbourne, however has also travelled as far as London, Tokyo, Barcelona and Paris.

Mijn Schatje

Mijn Schatje, also known as Marie Blanco Hendrickx, is a 22 year old illustrator and digital lowbrow pop surrealism artist. Based in Paris, Mijn is part French, Dutch and Spanish. Mijn used to work as a graphic designer, art director, and an art consultant for some Brands and labels such as Recordmakers, Sony Entertainment, and Biba Magazine.

Mitch O'Connell

Mitch O'Connell is an American artist whose work is reminiscent of the Old School Tattoo Art, from masters such as Sailor Jerry Collins and Don Ed Hardy; but using more contemporary themes. He is one of the great illustrators in the lowbrow art scene, and creates engaging paintings with a cartoon kitschy edge. His work is full of pop culture references- think pin up girls, retro Americana, cute wide eyed babes and traditional tattoo images.

Nick Walker

Numskull

Sydney artist Numskull's background is in graffiti, stencils and street art. His latest work has seen him progress into the use of oil paints, illustration and screen-printing, making his work highly collectable.

Reka

Reka is an established artist of Melbourne’s street art scene that has successfully moved into the realms of illustration and character design as well as becoming a successful exhibitor of his work, both in Melbourne and interstate. Commencing in 2002 with forays into the street art genre he transposed self-created characters basing his style around abstracted fantasy. In exploring this style of illustration, he uses symbolism and pop icons to convey messages about mans' interaction and relationship with nature.

Rone

Rone is one of Melbourne's most prolific street artists. His notorious paste-ups have been spread far and wide across high traffic areas of inner city Melbourne, often dominating the environment with their crude graphic approach. Rone chose the street as a canvas in an attempt to continually promote a marked difference of interest in an ever changing background. It is a stark rebuttal against the increase of public advertising propaganda, where little control is held by the general populous.

Ryan Heshka

Ryan Heshka is an illustrator, residing in downtown Vancouver. His paintings offer the possibility of adventure- robots battle it out with curvaceous vixens, spacemen ward off aliens and carnivorous plants threaten to devour radioactive women. The scenes in this show are both strange and strangely familiar, as if remembered from a childhood dream.

Sunny Buick

Sunny Buick was born in Canada and raised in California, finally settling down in San Francisco to become a tattoo artist. She claims to "live by the mirror; obsessed by the magic of makeup, fashion, and art, to the point of being traumatized by it." Sunny has appeared in several art books and is an active promoter of art in the lowbrow scene. She currently lives in Paris to escape consumerist America.

Wonderlust

Wonderlust is a Melbourne-based artist who exhibits as part of the ‘Everfresh’ crew- a renowned group of graffiti artists. He has painted in every continent on earth, makes prints for t-shirts worn by hipsters worldwide and currently works as a graphic designer for a global fashion company.