Street Art Festival 09/03 - 12/03/18

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We are excited to welcome you to the annual Wall to Wall festival, as Benalla is once again transformed by the incredible works of renowned international and local street artists.

From small beginnings, the festival has quickly grown to become a world-class event – attracting thousands of visitors and putting Benalla on the map as a regional street art capital of Australia.

The festival is truly immersive. From street art workshops and

painting by numbers to street art tours and light projections, there is an opportunity for everyone to get involved.

The Victorian Government is proud to support events like this which support local jobs and boost businesses in our regional communities.

I encourage everyone to experience the best of Victoria’s incredible food, wine and scenery as you venture out into our stunning regions.

Lucy Lucy

Festival weekend 09/03 -12/03/2018

The Honourable John Eren MPMinister for Tourism and Major Events

From street art workshops and painting by the numbers to street art tours and light projections, there is an opportunity for everyone to get involved.

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Jaclyn Symes MPState Member for Northern Victoria

I am so proud of my home town Benalla - we are on the world art map thanks to the masterpieces that adorn our streets. Just as infrastructure and investment is critical to ensure thriving country towns, so too is culture and the coming together of community to celebrate all that is great about it.

There is no doubt that this festival and the street art it produces will play a significant role in the future of Benalla and continue to provide yet another reason for people to put our beautiful town on their must visit list.

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Roxanne DemassonChair Wall to Wall International Festival Inc

I am thrilled to help guide the Wall to Wall festival into its fourth year. As a local resident I have seen how it has changed Benalla. The festival has brought a new energy and colour to our town; it has strengthened our local art scene and created new pathways into the arts for young people all across the region. It is inspiring to walk past incredible street art by some of the world’s best artists everyday. I would like to welcome visitors to our town to enjoy our unique festival.

Cr Don FirthMayor

Our community looks forward to this wonderful event every year. This is the one time of the year Benalla gets to show itself off to the rest of the world and because of the hard-working locals, volunteering so much of their time throughout the year, we get to do it in style.

Thanks has to go to so many people but especially the Wall to Wall street art committee led by Roxanne Demasson, our Member for Northern Victoria Jaclyn Symes, and Juddy Roller.

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201801 Claire Foxton 02 Lolo YS03 Julian Clavijo04 Anthony Lister05 Paint by numbers - Kaff-eine06 Zenisis07 Justine McAllister08 Tim Bowtell09 Shawn Lu10 Kaff-eine11 Callum Preston12 Cristen Brunner13 Georgia Hill14 George Rose15 Leonard Siaw16 Rosie Woods17 Loretta Lizzio18 Tom Gerrard19 Elle20 Lisa King21 Chris Henderson

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In 2018, the majority of our artists are new to Benalla. Some are familair faces. We’re particularly proud of the amount of women painting walls this year. Each artist has been selected and curated by Juddy Roller. They’ve been chosen for their diverse executions and relevance to the art community.

01 Claire Foxton Claire is an emerging Australian artist, muralist and designer. In 2016 she painted her first large scale mural triggering a love for public art, its accessibility and the inevitable exchange it creates between the artist, artwork and the local community.

05 Paint by numbers - Kaff-eine Kaff-eine likes using her art to champion the stories of marginalised folks, and encourage non-artists to creatively engage with and shape their own communities through working with her on collaborative street murals.

09 Shawn Lu Shawn Lu’s work explores imagined myths and urban legends perpetuated by the human condition, through contemporary machinery coupled with nineteenth-century medievalism. Narratives of a possible dark age is documented through his work.

13 Georgia Hill Georgia is an Australian artist, specialising in contemporary, type-based artworks that combine bold, monochromatic textures and lettering across exhibitions, large scale murals as well as installations.

03 Julian Clavijo Julian Clavijo is an international renowned artist, born in Colombia, living and working in Melbourne since 2008. As an artist, he is interested in urban space transformation, from large public installations to intimate portraits.

07 Justine McAllister Winner of the Melbourne Tram Art award, Justine works and rides around the city she calls home. She merges her art style between illustration and murals, which clearly shows pixels and paint as her medium of choice.

11 Callum Preston Designer, painter, illustrator, street artist and more, Callum works from the Everfresh Studio in Melbourne. He has been making waves within the artistic community for a number of years, and more recently with his art nostalgic exhibitions.

15 Leonard Siaw Born in the 1980’s, Leonard Siaw is a self- taught mural artist. He specialises in realism with a combination of optical illusion. His creations emphasise the human interaction between the viewer and the artwork.

02 Lolo YS Lauren YS is a US artist whose work is influenced by multiple stages of focus, both geographically and in practice. With dynamic bouts in academics, literature, teaching, illustration, and animation leading up to her arrival in the urban art sphere.

10 Kaff-eine Kaff-eine’s creative practice includes painting children’s storybook style characters, darker sensual human-animal creatures, photorealistic, stylised portraits and producing international social justice art and film projects.

14 George Rose George spends most of her time up ladders painting murals for commercial and non-commercial clients. Recently she has completed work for Instagram, MasterCard and Star Wars to name a few.

04 Anthony Lister Anthony Lister is a contemporary Australian-born adventure painter and installation artist. Lister helped pioneer the street art movement in his home city as a teenager and is considered one of Australia’s finest.

08 Tim Bowtell After spending years in the design industry he left Geelong and moved to Samaria, where he began to focus on his art. He painted his first aerosol mural of Gandhi as part of the 2016 Wall to Wall street art festival, and also painted 2017.

16 Rosie Woods Rosie Woods is a painter from London. Whether scaling large walls with spray paint or rendering visions in the studio, her practice continually treads the fine line between abstraction and realism, often explored through geometric layouts.

12 Cristen Brunner Born and bred in Benalla, Cristen made her mark on Wall to Wall last year with her unconventional painting technique and originality. Cristen is a traditional tattoo and portrait artist but is more than comfortable using bricks and mortar as her canvas.

06 Zenisis Zenisis grew up in Benalla. It wasn’t until she moved into Melbourne’s northern suburbs that she fell in love with the graffiti and street art that surrounded her. The precision, imagination and artistic freedom inspired Zenisis to start spray painting.

“Town leaps streets ahead...”THE BORDER MAIL

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17 Loretta Lizzio Loretta Lizzio channels the uninhabited wilderness and magical adventures within her works. Forgotten fairy tales, spectacles of cinema and National Geographic’s are her inspiration to make art and tell her stories.

20 Lisa King Lisa is an Australian multi-disciplinary artist and illustrator. From a successful gallery owner and curator to a vibrant oil painter and large scale muralist, she is unstoppable on any medium thrown her way.

19 Elle Elle’s work is evocative, beautiful, alluring, lavish, outrageous, purposeful and informative. Although she began as an illegal graffiti artist in New York, Elle is now considered one of the top touring street artists.

18 Tom Gerrard Tom Gerrard’s art career started in the mid-90s where his work could be found on the city’s streets. These days, he’s globally known for painting simplified characters, architecture and objects using a minimal colour palette.

21 Chris Henderson Originally from a bush town in North East Victoria, SIRHC is now based in Melbourne. A deep fascination for Australia’s wildlife has contributed greatly to his creative process and has served as an inspiration to his artwork.

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“We’re proud to present such an incredible line-up, and we’re especially proud that the majority of the artists are women.”SHAUN HOSSACK

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ival FRIDAY, 9 MARCH MONDAY, 12 MARCHSUNDAY, 11 MARCHSATURDAY, 10 MARCH

10:30AM Live painting (all day)

12PM Live painting (continues)

6PM Festival launch

10:30AM Live painting (all day)

12PM Guided street art tour

1PM-3PM VR cinema sessions

3PM Guided street art tour

3PM Artist talks Benalla Art Gallery

4PM-7PM VR cinema sessions

5PM Artist talks Benalla Art Gallery

7PM Guided street art tour

10:30AM Live painting (all day)

11AM Paint by numbers (all day)

12PM Guided street art tour

1PM-3PM VR cinema sessions

3PM Guided street art tour

3PM Artist talks Benalla Art Gallery

5PM Guided street art tour

5PM-8PM VR cinema sessions

7PM Guided street art tour

8:30PM Guided street art tour

10:30AM Live painting (all day)

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Festival weekend 09/03-12/03/2018Visit www.walltowallfestival.com for previous years locations.

This is one of the best ways to get involved in the festival and is loads of fun. Come along help to create a permanent, large scale mural.

Watch live art in the making by our artists all around town. Grab a map and select your favourites or, see them all over the long weekend.

We welcome the fourth installment of Wall to Wall at the official opening at Benalla Art Gallery. Sandrew have curated two exciting shows highlighting the work of Melbourne’s own Tom Gerrard and Callum Preston.

Guided street art tours are great way for those who are new to mural art, to learn more about the area and the art created around it. Find hidden gems you might not have spotted.

Visit Goorambat art silos by hopping onto a shuttle bus (by gold donation). Departing from 88-90 Bridge Street East. Saturday and Sunday at 10am, 12pm and 2pm.

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We thank you for your time in Benalla.

Please tell your friends and family about the best street art destination in Australia. On the final day of the event, here are a few suggestions:

• Visit the Benalla Art Gallery on a less busy day to take in the amazing exhibitions created by Tom Gerrard and Callum Preston.

• We recommend you walk around and view all the walls before the festival concludes. Some artists will have finished their murals and some will be close. Be sure to have a chat to these world-class artists before they leave.

• It is a given but we’d love you to share all your photos from the event on social media, so please be sure to tag us in. We have professional photographers on hand, but we’d like to see how you view this great town of ours.

We hope you have enjoyed the event and we can’t wait for 2019!

Share your images at #walltowallfestival and #enjoybenalla

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Festival weekend 09/03-12/03/2018Visit www.walltowallfestival.com for previous years locations.

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12 Cristen Brunner

13 Georgia Hill

14 George Rose

15 Leonard Siaw

16 Rosie Woods

17 Loretta Lizzio

18 Tom Gerrard

19 Elle

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21 Chris Henderson

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Milk BarCallum PrestonWhy a Milk Bar? For me, growing up in the suburbs of Melbourne, the local Milk Bar was more than just a shop. For me the Milk Bar was a meeting place and a cherished after-school ritual in a time before SMS and Instagram, a place where you’d just turn up, buy what you wanted and then see who else from the neighbourhood arrived to hang out.

As a child of the Melbourne suburbs in the 1990’s, this is my tribute to those times.

I wanted to communicate this memory in a dream-like state, hence making all the objects 3D and hand drawing each one. There is something about the wonkiness of it all that has a feeling of the blurred memory of those times for me. Working with plywood feels like I am turning

products that are generally perishable into into ones that are tough enough to last, yet still feel as simple as they are in real life.

This Milk Bar is for all of my childhood friends. May the next generation find the same simple pleasure we did in just hanging out with each other.

I hope this exhibition makes you smile and recall your own local Milk Bar and what it meant to you.

Benalla Art Gallery 10am-5pm daily (Closed Tuesday)

Exhibition dates: Saturday, 10 March - Sunday, 15 April

Opening night: Friday, 9 March, 6-8pm

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Imbued with an intense wanderlust, for many years Tom Gerrard has roved the world, adorning walls and holding highly-successful exhibitions.

Heavily featured in his art is his sympathetic renderings of middle-aged men sporting receding hairlines, mullets and unique facial hair.

These dead-set legends are all around us. He can be your bus driver or the bloke behind the counter at your local fish and chip shop. They are a time-capsule of style. They are individuals who know exactly who they are.

They don’t get caught up with the many distractions that affect our

modern-day egos: today’s trends are irrelevant to them. They are truly free to express themselves exactly how they feel, and you know that they like what they see in the mirror.

Benalla Art Gallery 10am-5pm daily (Closed Tuesday)

Exhibition dates: Saturday, 10 March - Sunday, 15 April

Opening night: Friday, 9 March, 6-8pm

Dead Set Legends Tom Gerrard

“They are a time-capsule of style. They are individuals who know exactly who they are.”

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Feel like staying out and about, enjoying the atmosphere on Saturday night? No worries, we’ve got you covered! For the first time, old and new walls at Wall to Wall festival will be lit up at night and street art tours will operate until late.

So, take a stroll, enjoy the ambience and get your camera ready for some unique photo opportunities and experiences!

All tours are held by Blender Studios. Bookings at walltowallfestival.com/street-art-tours/

Kingspray virtual reality painting Besides the sixty odd walls of street art that will be on display, this year, we will welcome a festival first - Kingspray graffiti simulator. Kingspray is a cutting-edge live graffiti simulator with key artists donning the VR headset and virtual spray can, performing live as is streamed to a large projector screen for the audience to watch on.

Saturday, 10 March from 7:30pm - Adnate

Sunday, 11 March from 7:30pm - Cam Scale

VR cinema A creative project showcasing the new wave of virtual reality works. Brought to you by Virtual Reality Cinema.

Session booking walltowallfestival.com/vrcinema

Saturday, 10 March & Sunday, 11 March 12pm-3pm 4pm-7pm

Silo art Already the home of Adnate’s ‘Sohpia’ mural located inside the United Church, Goorambat will again become a major satellite site at this year’s Wall to Wall festival with the addition of silo art by iconic Melbourne street artist Dvate. He is known for his striking renditions of endangered animals from across Australia. Having recently worked with the Melbourne Zoo recently for their newly opened ‘Predators’ enclosure, Dvate is primed to create another monumental artwork depicting an endangered bird of prey from the area.

Shuttle Bus services by gold coin donation to Goorambat silo.

Departs from 88-90 Bridge Street East

Saturday, 10 March & Sunday, 11 March 10am 12pm 2pm

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“Wall to Wall art brings street cred to historic Benalla.”THE AUSTRALIAN

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Paint by numbersCommunity Event

Back by popular demand, the Paint by numbers mural is for people of all ages. This event is one of the best ways to get involved in the festival and is loads of fun! So, come and get your hands dirty while helping to create a permanent, large scale mural under the guidance of one of our street artists.

Saturday, 10 March at 11am. No previous experience or artistic skills required. Refer to map for location.

A brush with NEANorth East Artisans will host a variety of creative workshops and events including sculpture display, community art, live music and artist talks.

9 - 12 March at 122 Bridge Street, Benalla. Visit northeastartisans.org for more information.

2018 ‘Benalla shorts’ film festivalProudly supported by passionate local businesses and community group will broadcast a range of short films created by Australian film makers. Prizes to be awarded and judged by John Orcsik and Tom Long.

For tickets and more information, visit www.benallashorts.com

Come and get your hands dirty while helping to create a permanent, large scale mural.

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ENJOY BENALLAYou’ll be amazed at everything there is to see, taste and do in Benalla Rural City.Find out more at the Visitor Information CentreMair Street Benalla, open 9am - 5pm daily.

Benalla Art Gallerywww.benallaartgallery.com

Benalla Performing Arts & Convention Centrewww.bpacc.com.au

Winton Motor Racewaywww.wintonraceway.com.au

Winton Wetlandswww.wintonwetlands.org.au

State Gliding Centrewww.glidingclub.org.au

Visitor Information CentreMair Street, Benalla

(03) 5762 1749www.enjoybenalla.com.au

ENJOY BENALLAYou’ll be amazed at everything there is to see, taste and do in Benalla Rural City.Find out more at the Visitor Information CentreMair Street Benalla, open 9am - 5pm daily.

Benalla Art Gallerywww.benallaartgallery.com

Benalla Performing Arts & Convention Centrewww.bpacc.com.au

Winton Motor Racewaywww.wintonraceway.com.au

Winton Wetlandswww.wintonwetlands.org.au

State Gliding Centrewww.glidingclub.org.au

Visitor Information CentreMair Street, Benalla

(03) 5762 1749www.enjoybenalla.com.au

You’ll be amazed at everything there is to see, taste and do in Benalla Rural City.

Find out more at the Visitor Information Centre Mair Street Benalla, open 9am - 5pm daily.

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BENALLA CINEMA @ BPACCA big city digital cinema experience with country friendliness and low prices. Enjoy the latest movies every Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday.■ Great value snacks at the kiosk■ Mums and Bubs sessions on TuesdaysBox Offi ce open 10am to 4pm Monday to Friday and a half hour prior to movie sessions and theatre performances.  

Benalla Performing Arts &Convention Centre

57 Samaria Road, BenallaBox Offi ce: (03) 5762 5515

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facebook.com/bpacc.benalla @_BPACC

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Published by: Juddy Roller and Wall to Wall International Street Art Committee © 2018

Art Direction: Eddie Zammit | Design: Naina I Knoess | Logo: George Rose/T-world | Key Photography: Nicole Reed

For a full list of sponsors and individual donors go to: www.walltowallfestival.com/sponsors

Wall to Wall’s foundations are based on the generosity of people’s time and money. We’re so

proud that this is our fourth installment. This event simply does not exist with the financial and

personal support of these wonderful businesses and individuals. We think the festival has grown

into a community and we see the people behind the logos as family. Support local, think big

and dream bigger. We have.