Australian Street Artist & Muralist

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Street Artist Australia

Australian street artist HAPPY DECAY lives on the South Coast of NSW, just below Sydney and a short drive across to Canberra. Being close to Canberra makes it easy to fly to Brisbane and Melbourne or any city in Australia for street art and mural work.

You can view my showcase of street art or I have a selection of my mural artwork below which has influences from street and graffiti art.

mackay mural — Street Artist HAPPY DECAY in Mackay

melbourne street art — Street artist at work in the Melbourne area

sydney mural — Mural in Sydney Stockland store

melbourne pavement mural — Melbourne pavement mural

centre-mural-canberra — Mural at the entrance of shopping centre

mural melbourne school — Street art at a school in Melbourne

office magpie mural — Street art brought into the office as a mural

penrith graffiti artist — Street art for Penrith City Council

mural office sydney — Street art office mural in Sydney

custom street art — Custom illustration for a street art project

bat street art — Street art at times needs to be fun

Below is a selection of some of my mural work as a street artist in Australia. With the street artwork, I like to keep it bright and vibrant. My aim is to create a community space through art that makes the place more enjoyable and positive for people to engage with.

stret art in Bendigo — Street Art in Bendigo

skate-park-urban-art — Albion Park street art at the skate park

gold coast street artist — Discussing the mural art with graffiti artist Zoinky on the Gold Coast

brisbane-street-artist — Street art bringing colour to this corridor

student mural — Mural painted to help enliven the main student dining hall

Canberra street art — Enjoying some street art in the Australian Capital Territory

mural canberra — Custom illustration then used in a mural in Canbera

Happy chicken mural — Happy animals option type mural with positive message

sydney mural artist — Section from a 25m mural I painted in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

As a street artist, I like to hopefully delight the viewers with the artwork as they see it in the urban environment. Street art is a wonderful tool to make community places more enjoyable and fun.

By using a strategic process combined with a unique creative skillset the aim is to make places within the city and rural-urban environments more beautiful and easy for people to interact with.

moruya street art — Mural in the side street of Australian town Moruya

Artist training to become HAPPY DECAY

I did my formal training as an artist at the School of Art in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory. I focused on printing making, illustration and typography.

etchings — My formal training as an illustrator / etcher at the Australian National University

Later on, I went and did some additional training at the Canberra Institute of Technology to study graphic design. Here I got to learn about the business of design as well as using software that was good for digital illustration.

street artist australian — Australian street artist HAPPY DECAY in Canberra

I’ve always had the fortune to do be able to do illustration work within the design industry. And with my illustration skills and prior painting training, I have branched off into street artwork which is the perfect canvas size I like to work with.

As a street artist, I started with painting walls at friends’ places and other abandoned buildings. I enjoyed a cross over of illustrative and graffiti arts. Sometimes making fabricated walls to practice street artist’s techniques and improve my skillset.

Through street art and illustration skills, I have been able to work on projects for the likes of Prada (collaboration with Adidas), Samsung & the ACT Government.

Here are some more of my street art/mural work based around Australia. Most of my artwork is done around the Sydney and Canberra area. I do travel nationwide and overseas for street art projects.

If you like you can view more of my street art on my website under the showcase section.