Splatrs' Street Art Unearthed

Wellborn is an artist from Meajin (Brisbane) who has blasted into the visual arts scene just a few years ago, after more than 15 years in music and performing arts.    A lifelong creative, Wellborn has an instinct for art and a knack for following his inspiration wherever it may take him, whatever time of day or night.    On the podcast, Wellborn shares his experiences moving his creative energy i...

Tori-Jay Mordey is a contemporary Indigenous Illustrator and mural artist who has been professionally illustrating since high school. Landing her first gig thanks to an encouraging auntie, Tori-Jay has been riding the art journey ever since. Balancing her work between illustrating books and painting murals, Tori-Jay is thriving, producing gorgeous, highly emotive work, made light by her characters...

Kaff-eine is an artist and filmmaker combining art and social impact to capture attention and share stories of those who don't have the platform to speak for themselves. Involved in any number of projects at any one time, she is forever on the go, sharing her energy with others, spotting injustice and batting it down immediately, making safe spaces for anyone that needs them.    On the podcast, Ka...

N2O is a fixture in the Melbourne urban art scene, working with stencils to share stories of childhood fun and invoke a sense of nostalgia in passers-by.     Starting her street art career in her 40s, N2O is a huge advocate for prioritising fun and pursuing your passions, no matter your age and life stage.    On the podcast, we discuss how she got started, the layers of meaning behind her work and...

Bohie is a multidisciplinary artist, muralist and typographer who's been in the game since 2013, doing creative commissions, exhibitions, and commercial briefs.    Bohie has had wild success, but she's also battled with mental health challenges and the anxiety of finding her own authenticity in a world where she has had to fight to find her voice. Through this experience, however, she's become som...

Shan Primrose is a Melbourne based Visual Artist and Designer who, from a young age, has found herself against the norm. Developing her love for painting in high school, Shan discusses the process of finding her identity as she's found her artistic voice and learning to live with mental illness and develop her practice around it.    Shan Primrose online: Shanprimroseart.com FestyFitz.com https://w...

Brad Eastman, a.k.a. Beastman, is a Sydney-based studio and street artist who has been painting walls for more than a decade, bringing geometric landscapes into our cityscapes.   With almost 20 years of making art under his belt, Brad Eastman has the mellow self-confidence of a master and shares fun chats about how he got started, how he pushes himself to grow and how he gives zero fucks about wha...

Faith Kerehona, a.k.a. Faithsprays, is a Canberra based street artist who has been painting walls since 15, juggling school, homework, and now uni alongside a blossoming street art career for which she is an established name. Unaware at 15 that the act of painting big walls in a dress was seen as a power move for feminism, she became more conscious of social issues and committed herself to underst...

JESWRI is an illustrator, studio artist and street artist who comes from a graffiti writing background. He has straddled the many urban art worlds, and he firmly believes that if the streets were left to police themselves, the insects would be pushed out, and writers and artists would take it upon themselves to look after their community spaces.    JESWRI online:  https://www.jeswri.com/ https://w...

RJ Williams is a Sydney based graffiti artist and multidisciplinary creative who has been illustrating and painting walls for decades. With graffiti as his number one passion, we wanted to chat about the scene and hear from RJ what graffiti culture is really about, beyond illegal painting.    RJ Williams online:  https://www.instagram.com/anamelessforce/ http://www.anamelessforce.com/ https://hell...

Tinky Sonntag installed her first tiny scene in a Melbourne laneway just five years ago. She did it for a laugh, and within a week she had fans demanding an encore. Five years later and she's got fans in fine art, street art, and even the mainstream.    On the podcast, Tinky shares lots of laughs about how the pursuit of generating her own giggles ended up reaching far beyond.    Tinky Sonntag onl...

Askew One has painted since the 90s using whatever spray cans he could get his hands on, with no concerns about his respiratory health or environmental footprint, until a thunderclap headache knocked him down and set him on course to consider the impacts of the products he was using.    He discusses economically smarter ways to paint, as well as how artists, paint manufacturers and festival curato...

Pablo el Tigre is an artist from Colombia who stepped away from a vibrant Bogota street art scene to head down under, learn a new language, and work in a job he hated so that he could spend every cent and every spare second on painting and hustling to earn the respect of the Melbourne street art scene. Pablo oozes love and respect for his craft, and he tells some damn funny stories about the wild...

Jordache has been painting for more than a decade, making a living as a muralist and more recently stepping into the studio to produce fine abstract artworks that honour his graffiti background. Experienced in both commercial muralism and abstract work, Jordache describes the balance between the two, the different energies for community work vs personal work, and the rebellious spirit that has giv...

Ling is a muralist and graffiti writer, proud of his graffiti roots and the importance it still holds for him today. Although street art pays his bills, both forms of painting hold equal value attention in his life.    While we didn't intentionally set out to talk about the influence of graffiti, it subtly became the thread throughout the conversation. If there was no graffiti, there would be no L...

Styna is a muralist and illustrator who's been painting and illustrating since 2012, taking it full-time in 2017 and absolutely killing it.    Christina is down to earth and speaks candidly about her transformation from a young girl who couldn't imagine having the bravery to paint walls, to a successful muralist, illustrator and book author, with open-ended possibilities to do anything she could d...

Tom Gerrard is a studio and street artist who's been painting walls since the '90s, putting his iconic heads up on walls across the world and more recently edging into the contemporary art world with wide success in the studio.    Tom joins Street Art Unearthed for some great yarns about his antics abroad, self-doubt and growth in his art, and what he has his sights on for the future.    Tom Gerra...

Reuben Boughtwood, also known as Reubszz, is a studio and street artist who, after almost 15 years painting on canvas, picked up a spray can in 2017 and quickly discovered his calling as a muralist. By 2018, Reubszz had quit his job, become known in the Sydney street art scene and built a career as a muralist. He joins Street Art Unearthed to chat about this shift to painting walls and how to spot...

Manda Lane is a studio and street artist spreading her love for nature all over the walls of Melbourne through her intricate lined paste-ups of plants. Juggling her art with her corporate career, Manda talks on the benefits of art in her life and how she has gone from daily drawings to street art and exhibitions.    Manda Lane online:  https://www.facebook.com/mandalaneart https://www.instagram.co...

Amanda Newman is a prolific artist who has experienced a fascinating breadth of artistic roles, taking her from the US to South Korean and Singapore, and now to Australia. From early days painting theme parks, to boldly painting illegally in broad daylight, Amanda talks to us about what drives her to paint her muses and her attitude on being true to herself.    Amanda Newman online:  https://www.a...

Seb Toussaint is a street artist who's committed his life to travel to the slums and refugee camps of the world. Through his Share The Word project, members of these communities can select a word that has special meaning for them, and Seb gets to work painting their walls, living in the slums or refugee camps with them, learning their stories and sharing them with the world.    On this episode, Se...

Venazir Martinez has made a name for herself as a pioneer for street art in the Philippines, giving the artform appreciation through a series of projects highlighting the diversity of communities that make up Filipino culture, particularly the Indigenous communities. On the podcast, Venazir shares her experience being a female sticking her neck out for street art, climbing insane scaffolding to pa...

Helen Proctor has been in the graffiti and street art scene for more than a decade in Australia. She grew up painting trains, got into the Sydney street art scene as it was on the rise, and then decided to uproot and move with her partner to Amsterdam, where she learned the real tough slog that came with building a name with no connections.    On the podcast, Helen talks about how tough, but rewar...

Jasmine Crisp is a young painter, not long out of University, who's already completed residencies around Europe, had her first solo show and painted one of the biggest buildings in Adelaide's CBD. It's fair to say that she is on an upward trajectory that even COVID can't slow.    On the podcast, Jasmine talks us through this journey: How a chance encounter with Peter Drew encouraged her into art s...

Kyle Torney is a humble Central Victoria-based artist who has been building a name for himself in the street art scene, painting his fine artworks on walls around town, as well as recently completing silos.    Kyle joins us to chat about how he managed to go from pig farming, to industrial design studies, to mixed martial arts teacher and gym owner, to finally adding artist to the repertoire. He t...