ADELAIDE FRINGE 02. HER MAJESTY’S REAR WALL Artist: Anthony Lister STREET ART Anthony Lister was born in Brisbane, Australia, in 1979, and later completed a Bachelor of Fine EXPLOSION 17 Arts degree at the Queensland College of the Arts. He helped pioneer the stencil and street art WALKING MAP movement in Brisbane before moving to New York in 2003 to work with his mentor, Max Gimblett. Lister says “I am interested in culture, and society’s K judgment systems on culture” he tells us when I N we ask about why he was drawn to them as a 16 18 G painter. “Ballerinas are kind of like strippers, only they don’t take their clothes off. I’m interested in breaking art. I’m interested in philosophy.” W 03. PITT ST CARPARK WALL HINDLEY ST I L Artist: Vans the Omega 15 L I 47 14 A Based mostly, but not always, in Adelaide, Vans M the Omega has been creating and paining for 13 more than 2 decades. His influences include architecture, ancient scripts, engineering, nature, as 12 well as the idea of movement and balance. He has experience in a number of disciplines, including 11 design, photography, and clothing, and used all his CURRIE ST S influence to create works that continue to push T the boundaries and satisfy his desire to reinvent 10 and perfect his craft. Today Vans is renowned for 8,9 his diverse use of mediums, colour palettes and Lig ht styles including portraiture, geometric pattern and quare/ traditional graffiti lettering. As one of Australia’s 7 most influential street artists, Vans the Omega is uwi often credited as a pioneer of both the local and international graffiti scene. However, despite his ST godfather status within the industry, Vans is an WAYMOUTH extremely grounded person. Radiating positivity, his mission in life is simply to better himself as a person and as an artist, which are by no means mutually exclusive, with what has been given. 6 44 04. PITT ST ROAD Artist: Unknown ST We couldn’t find any information on this piece or FRANKLIN the artist who created it – if you happen to have any information about them, please get in contact and 1 we’ll add it to this section! 4,5 05. ELIZA STREET Artist: Bankslave, Wise Two, Swift9, Smokillah 2,3 Bankslave is a leading Kenyan graffiti and visual artist, who uses art as a voice for social change. One of his most celebrated pieces of work was with GROTE ST Victoria Spoliticalqua ractiviste/ and photographer Boniface Mwangi. The duo painted vultures on buildings in the centre Tarntanyofa Nairobingg ain a dead of the night graffiti revolution, in hope Kenyans would vote out the politicians, widely viewed as corrupt and ineffective. Passionate, and his works have been exhibited at places such as versatile and talented, Bankslave has painted murals the Art Gallery of South Australia and the National WEST END 2017 for the United Nations and festivals around the Gallery of Australia, however his most prominent world. Bankslave will create a mural installation in STREET ARTISTS works are displayed on city streets around Australia Eliza Street, as well as showcase at the gallery and the world. Across Adelaide you can still find 01. HER MAJESTY’S SIDE WALL paste-ups stating quite plainly ‘Real Australians Wise Two is a street artist whose work revolves Say Welcome’. While this particular campaign has around ancient civilisations and their writing Artists: Peter Drew catapulted Peter Drew’s reputation internationally systems, tribal markings, African Marks and Peter Drew was born in Adelaide in 1983. He holds as an activist, he’s been using our streets for many patterns which subconsciously affect us one way a Master’s Degree from the Glasgow School of Art, years now to highlight issues and foster debate that or another. He believes that all we are today has a he believes aren’t given enough critical thought. lot to do with the ancient times, the way we speak in regards to languages and how we relate to nature and its complexities, showing us new chiaroscuro of renaissance painters like Caravaggio, people through different cultural norms. He has ways of looking at our world with each work. Adnate embraces portraiture like the masters of the been accredited with creating an awareness of the XXI Century. Adnate has always held a connection Kenyan graffiti art movement amongst the global 08. TOPHAM MALL CARPARK towards indigenous people of their native land, graffiti community through his involvements in especially with the Indigenous Australians. He paints various international exhibitions and events. WALL (FACING WEST) large murals in the main cities around Australia and Artist: Beastman the world, creating a statement of taking back the Swift9 is a self-taught visual artist who specializes land that was always theirs. He captures the stories in graffiti and urban art. Swift has gained extensive Beastman (Bradley Eastman) is a multidisciplinary and emotions of each subject he paints and lets experience experimenting on the streets of Nairobi, artist from Sydney, Australia. Influenced by the his audience feel through their own experience. managing to successfully train over 300 young biodiversity, symbolism and design aesthetics people on how to use art, as a tool for advocacy. behind nature’s repetitive geometric growth patterns His creations seek to empower audiences, create and organic landscapes, Beastman’s paintings, 14. LANEWAY (SIDE OF awareness as well advocate for social change. digital illustration, commercial projects and public ADELAIDE TIME) Swift9 has worked internationally through murals explore a unique visual language, depicting Artist: Unknown festivals including Art of the Streets Festival - future environments of abstracted landscapes, Sweden, Open Source Festival - Berlin and The potential new life forms and human intervention. We couldn’t find any information on this piece or the artist who created it – if you happen to Prince Claus Award Ceremony - Amsterdam. One of the most distinctive and prolific emerging have any information about them, please get Swift will create a mural installation in Eliza contemporary artists from Australia, Beastman has in contact and we’ll add it to this section! Street, and in the Kerry Packer Civic Gallery. exhibited his artworks extensively around the world, Smokillah is a professional graffiti artist, muralist has curated and organised numerous international and founder of Graffiti Girls Kenya, Smoki saw art exhibitions and projects, and has been 15. WOODSONS LANE the need to train young women in the art form commissioned by the likes of Element, Facebook, (OFF BANK STREET) of graffiti, balancing the ratio of male to female Vivid Sydney, Mini, Westfield, Red Bull, Stockland, Artist: RONE graffiti artists. His workshops allow girls to express Hyundai, Smirnoff and more. His artwork was themselves through graffiti murals, often relating recently acquired by the National Gallery of Australia, Rone is best known for his haunting, stylised to the experiences and challenges they go through and his large solo and collaborative mural works can images of women’s faces, and he understands whilst growing up, into early adulthood. Smoki be found all over Australia and around the world. better than most that beauty can be fleeting. Seeing his artworks gradually worn away by natural and is passionate about educating through the art form of graffiti, throughout Kenya and Africa. 09. LADY BURRA human elements has taught him to appreciate Smokillah will create a large mural in Eliza Street. the unexpected beauty of an image as it begins Artist: Vans The Omega to blend back into its more prosaic surroundings. For Vans the Omega’s bio, see #04. Rone has gone from spearheading Melbourne’s 06. 72 WAYMOUTH ST fledgling street art movement in the early 2000s, Artist: Fredrock (Fred Roldan) as a member of the Everfresh crew, to being a 10. ZHIVAGO NIGHTCLUB LANEWAY celebrated fixture on the international street art Fredrock has been painting for 17yrs both legally scene. An inveterate traveller, his distinctive female and illegally in Australia and around the world. He Artist: Anthony Lister muses have followed him around the world, and grew up south of Adelaide and was inspired by Anthony Lister is an Australian-born painter and can be found – in various states of decay – peering catching the Noarlunga train line to school and installation artist, known for his merging of high out from beneath overpasses and emblazoned seeing all the cool artwork along the tracksides. He and low cultural imagery in his work. As a teenager, on walls everywhere from New York, Paris, Tokyo was always interested in art, but those train rides he helped pioneer the street art movement in his and London to Christchurch, Santo Domingo were where the passion evolved from – and evolve home city with his scrawling and figurative style, and Port Villa. These days, Rone’s work is found it did, into a full blown graffiti career spanning employing charcoal, acrylic, spray paint, and oil. He as often in galleries as it is on the streets. over 10 years. He mostly works with spray can and says: ‘the first rule of painting is to take everyone graphite pencil, but also works with printing and else out of the equation. I am the viewer, so I don’t paint brush. He loves the primal nature of pencil underestimate my viewers. They see everything and I 16. LA BOCA work – the expressiveness of being able to draw on just have to assume that they are me. I can’t paint for Artist: Uknown anything. Spray can has the same appeal – except anyone else.’ you can go big! ‘The streets are full of colour We couldn’t find any information on this piece now and I like to think that I was around in the or the artist who created it – if you happen to beginning and that I’ll still be around in the end.