ADAM SUERTE - Brooklyn, New York
Born and raised in South Brooklyn, Adam is a versatile artist who draws inspiration from a wide range of styles, including impressionism, Dutch Masters, underground comic art, psychedelic poster art, Aztec art, and graffiti. He studied at the Art Student's League, The High School of Music and Art, and the Rhode Island School of Design.
In 1999, Adam co-founded the artist collective Urban Folk Art® Studios in Brooklyn, which was a silkscreen studio that funded art openings, mural projects, and publishing comics. In 2002, he co-founded Brooklyn Tattoo®, a successful tattoo shop that has been operating for over 15 years. He also opened the Urban Folk Art® Gallery in 2011, which ran until 2017 and featured a variety of artists and mediums, with a special focus on legendary old-school graffiti artists.
Adam continues to work as a painter, illustrator, tattoo artist, printmaker, and curator, creating art across various styles and mediums.
CALM - Melbourne, Australia
A native of Melbourne, Calm hits the streets at night pasting up original drawings that were constructed into stencils and completed with aerosol paint on paper. Calm’s work has evolved over the years but it’s his creation of TwoCans that has captured the attention of collectors, gallerists, and street art photographers, both professional and amateur. Calm's work has been presented in galleries throughout Melbourne and has been featured in numerous art exhibitions in Melbourne and around the world.
CHILL MAL BERLIN - Berlin, Germany
Chill Mal Berlin (aka C.M.B) is a collective of creative friends who grew up together in East Berlin. Their communal love for urban space and design led to the planning and implementation of many different types street art projects.
Media, shapes and colors do not play a fixed role, thus reflecting the diversity of the crew and the city in which they live. Whether graffiti, stencils, paste-ups, style writing, prints, woodwork or stickers, C.M.B. continues to push their creative boundaries and represent Berlin in it’s unique place in art.
JULIA SCHMITT - Melbourne, Australia
Julia Schmitt is a Melbourne based artist specializing in detailed architectural drawings. Her use of a fine liner pen adds a permanent and intricate aspect to her work. She is inspired by the stories and humanity of bricks and mortar especially old buildings and shopfronts. For the past few years, Julia has been working on drawings of graffiti and urban scenes and expanding to drawings on skateboard decks.
THOMAS MCKEAN - New York, New York
A native New Yorker, Thomas McKean has exhibited his MetroCard collages and other work all around town, including two recent solo shows – one at Fishs Eddy (2022) and the Garment District Alliance (2023). He was invited to design the cover of Time Out and written about in The New York Times, Channel 11, Reuters, and New York Nico.
Thomas creates collages and constructions out of MetroCards and in addition to making collages out of whatever New York image strikes his fancy, he’s working on two ongoing projects – one a children’s book (“Sneaky Snail Crosses MetroTown”) and the other a family history.
Thomas McKean lives and works in New York City. He published a dozen books (mostly for children) before focusing on art.
TIM ROEFFLS - Berlin, Germany
Tim was born in the Netherlands and grew up on the border of Germany and the Netherlands. During the 1980s, he and his brother used to travel to East Berlin, exploring the city and photographing the old and unembellished East Berlin. Then, Tim travelled throughout the Mediterranean area of Europe. Tim also spent time in the USA, photographing America in the post-911 period.
Tim moved to Berlin from the Netherlands in 1991 and quickly discovered the Kunsthaus Tacheles (1990-2012) in Berlin-Mitte. The Tacheles (literally 'straight talk' in German) quickly became Berlin's cultural center after the fall of the Berlin Wall (1989) and continued to thrive over the terms of four city mayors. It was here that he discovered his love for artistic life, for Dadaism, and reinvented and further developed the collage technique. Through his art, he incorporates the stark differences between the broken and beautiful, essence and appearance. Since then, he has been copying and collaging colossal cityscapes, painting new beings and connecting them and their inhabitants with Berlin's cultural way of life, as well as with political and humorous images and statements.
SUKI - Melbourne, Australia
Suki is a Melbourne based artist who works primarily with urban art installations and printmaking, though she also explores materials including fabric, fibre, ink and found objects.
Combining the subtle beauty of women and the natural world, Suki creates works that contrast and complement the walls of the city. Travelling around the country and overseas to share her art, Suki seeks to draw attention to the beauty in the decay of urban walls and the disparity of quiet images against the busy world of city life.
YIYING LEE - Melbourne, Australia
Yiying is a multi-disciplinary artist who works with ink, watercolor, ceramics and printmaking. She completed her Diploma of Visual Arts in 2012 at CAE Melbourne and has been showcasing her works around Melbourne and Sydney since.
Yiying spent most of her childhood in Singapore and her teenage years in Malaysia. She has been studying, living, and working mostly in Melbourne since 2003. Her inspirations include Yoshitomo Nara, Shaun Tan and Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.