Splatrs' Street Art Unearthed

On this episode, we sit down with figurative artist and muralist Anne Bengard, whose oil paintings and drawings explore themes around intimacy, connection and fetishisation. While on walls, naturally, her subjects are more broad, informed by location and community.  Here we discuss how she got started and what drew her to her subject.  Anne Bengard online:  www.annebengard.com   www.instagram.com/...

On this episode, we sit down with amazingly talented and super lovely multi-disciplinary artist and muralist George Rose, who has spent the last eight or so years pouring her passion into murals, travelling non-stop, and living a split life between home and the road.  George Rose online:  https://www.instagram.com/george_rose/ https://linktr.ee/george_rose   Street Art Collector podcast:  https://...

On this episode, we sit down with the stunningly talented Artist duo MOTS, a.k.a. Jagoda Cierniak and Diogo Ruas, who collectively bring their skills in photography, painting, illustration, and visual arts to their collaborative murals. If you don't know them already, these two are painting massive, guache-like textured walls with incredible abstract, slash surrealist style paintings that kind of...

On this episode, we sit down with muralist, studio artist and entrepreneur Danielle Weber, who's been building her business for 12 years, learning by trial and error but continually conscious of how to pay her lessons forward. Already actively mentoring other artists, everything Danielle does goes back to her community.  This is an episode filled with tips and in-depth chats about the beauty and c...

On this episode, I sit down with multi-disciplinary Swedish artist, Finsta, who has a history in graffiti, an education in graphic design and an extremely successful and full artistic career spanning 25 years or 30 if you go back to his early graffiti days. Finsta's artistic path is unlike any I've ever heard before. Ambitious, encouraged and industrious, Finsta's graffiti and public art career to...

On this episode, I have the brains behind the Totemo brand... All Co-Founders: Marty Roberts, CEO; Minami Kobayashi, Head of Sales and Marketing; Elena Calderon Alaez, Head of Curation and Ally Ogilvie, CTO.  Now launched, featuring artists such as Kuua, Baki Baki, Robots Will Kill, Jodee Knowles, Shiro and La Mano Fria, the team talk through how the marketplace came together and why the world nee...

On this episode, we sit down with multi-talented artist Terry Urban, who's been painting surfaces of all kinds for decades. After a long career as a DJ/Producer, Terry reconnected with his art. The last six years have seen him cement his name in the art game, successfully selling canvases, winning walls and recently producing NFTs (more about that over on Street Art Collector).  Here we chat in de...

On this episode of Street Art Unearthed, Steph sits down with Chris Dyer, an artist who is instantly recognisable with his psychedelic style artworks. Artistic his entire life, Chris shares great stories of his hand-drawn newsletters, building a brand before social media and being authentic to himself and the world.  Chris Dyer online:  https://www.instagram.com/chris_dyer/   https://twitter.com/p...

On the podcast today, I sit down with abstract expressionist muralist, artist and designer Sahil Roy, who began painting graffiti at just 13 years old, forming a compulsion that would follow him to this day.  Holding onto his love of painting walls long after his friends threw it in, Sahil explored his style in the studio, transforming his graffiti into an abstract expressionist studio and mural p...

On this episode of Street Art Unearthed, Steph sits down with Alex Senna, who hails from Brazil and is known around the world for his massive murals with large monochromatic characters that stir up the hearts and minds of observers.  Alex Senna online:  https://www.instagram.com/alexsenna/   http://www.alexsenna.com.br/   Street Art Collector podcast:  https://thestreetartcollector.libsyn.com/   P...

On the podcast today, I sit down with Australian artist, dad and full-time agency man Steve Leadbeater, who's graced gallery spaces since the 90s but chosen to balance his practice with a full-time job where his art life can be a sacred escape rather than a daily grind.  Steve is an inspiration to many aspiring artists who don't believe they have the time or money to pursue their passion. A master...

On the podcast today, I sit down with US street artist and muralist, ELLE, to chat about her life of endless travels and tracing her career back to her early graffiti days with no thought of commercial success to now being a household name, painting murals all around the world. Not one to sit still or become complacent, ELLE is always on the move and always pushing her art into new forms and expre...

Creative Director, Ben Crook, is the man behind the epic immersive visual installation Street Art Alive, which has recently debuted in Los Angles and is set to travel the world. Head of Business Development at Artflow NFT, Nicole Crivelli, is then the woman behind the initiative to incorporate NFTs into the exhibition, creating a new way for attendees and existing fans to purchase a piece of the e...

Although he's painted those five letters for 29 years, Yesca has never mixed his graffiti with his commercial endeavours, despite a loyal following who desperately wishes he would.  Here we talk about why: his philosophy about graffiti and how he feels about his gallery work honouring his graffiti aesthetic without selling what he believes should be free.  On this episode, we have a great chat abo...

YESSIOW is a Bali-based mural artist and illustrator who's recently catapulted herself into the street art scene, winning commissions and recognition worldwide. And this is entirely by design. Initially shy to put herself out there, YESSIOW worked hard to get out of her comfort zone and has built the confidence to put her hat in the ring every time. To that end, she's dedicated hours to tracking i...

Vidam is a Berlin-based visual artist and illustrator who's been painting walls for some 18 years, starting in abandoned buildings with Berlin's graffiti writers to the present day, where he paints his own style on massive walls around Europe.  Naturally, those 18 years have been a winding road of creative avenues to get him to the point his at today, focusing exclusively on his own unique charact...

Dscreet is an Australian artist and filmmaker who's been painting the streets for some 30 years, thriving in both his professions producing everything from music videos, documentaries and feature films alongside an active graffiti practice, street art commissions and canvases and various other creative outlets.  On this episode, we reminisce on the early days of uncovering the Urbex movement, how...

Bilos is a Greek illustrator and street artist who's been painting walls from just 12 years old. It's always been with him. Alongside high school and university, he persisted, eventually doing commissions on the side as he studied. His ethos seems to have always been to do good work that he loves himself, and the opportunities will follow.  Naturally, he's also been aware of how social media plays...

Alice Pasquini is a street artist, painter and illustrator who studied classical art while at the same time exploring the interaction she could have with people through her art on the streets.  Today Alice is an internationally renowned street artist, still adding beautifully placed street art pieces wherever she travels while being commissioned for murals all over the world.  On this episode, we...

Fikaris is an Australian painter, illustrator, comic book creator and street artist who's enjoyed a lifelong career as a creative, exploring mediums and fostering the creative community with collaborative projects that focus on the collective rather than the individual.  A big believer in the concept of the "scenius", the genius collective, Fikaris's Silent Army project brings together artists acr...

Bailer is a multi-disciplinary artist who's been creating for 24 years. He's deeply involved and still active in Melbourne's graffiti culture, and he produces studio work, runs a gallery and, most recently, has launched a thick-ass book 13 years in the making, documenting Melbourne's monumental graffiti history.  Over his 24 years, Bailer has never deviated from his graffiti roots. While he's expa...

On the podcast today, Steph sits down with Melbourne-based British urban contemporary artist Mysterious Al, one of the artists active during the UK's early street art wave, gaining fame from his work and the epic illegal street exhibitions he put on with some of today's most famous street artists.  Famous since the 2000s for his street art, Al sat on the artistic extremes. A street art practice th...

On the podcast today, we sit down with Ukrainian street artist Alex Maksiov, who began painting insane 3D artworks in 2010, gaining worldwide attention and ushering in an international mural career as his work began blowing up online. Coming from Ukraine, where street art prevailed but mural commissions were few, Alex experienced the full power of the internet. When one mural went viral online, so...

On the podcast today, we sit down with Japanese multi-disciplinary artist TWO ONE, who started painting on the streets some 17 years ago, just out of high school, new to Melbourne, speaking little of the language and finding community among other enthusiastic street artists.  With an exhibition success early in his public painting days, TWOONE realised he was on the path to his artistic dreams and...

Made up by wife and husband artists Bella and Justin, BellaPhame is a collaboration dedicated to communicating messages of equality and connection.  Hailing from Rio and Brooklyn, respectively, Bella and Justin and acutely aware of the beauty in blending cultures and recognising the commonalities between all people who inhabit this weird and wonderful planet.  This appreciation for unity and equal...