Street art finding its mark in outdoor festival

The Brisbane Street Art Festival offers a jam-packed 16-day festival with an impressive range of murals, installations and workshops.

Brisbane appears to be brimming over with street art. Depending on where you are in the city, it seems that on every street corner, there’s a wall mural or a street sculpture, artworks that double as benches or seating, and a whole variety of small to medium installations.

‘The fun part about doing a street festival is the ability to paint murals that then become permanent. So, after seven years, we now have a program of artworks throughout Brisbane that’s been growing since 2016. And the majority have survived and are still existing in public spaces. We’ve delivered something like 300 works in total over those seven years,’ Savage adds.

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Suzannah Conway is an experienced arts administrator, having been CEO of Opera Queensland, the Brisbane Riverfestival and the Centenary of Federation celebrations for Queensland. She is a freelance arts writer and has been writing reviews and articles for over 20 years, regularly reviewing classical music, opera and musical theatre in particular for The Australian and Limelight magazine as well as other journals. Most recently she was Arts Hub's Brisbane-based Arts Feature Writer.