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S T R E E T C U B E

Streetcube is a street mural project that injects vibrancy to cityscapes. Local, interstate and international artists are brought together to conduct collaborative murals and engage in dialogues with the community through artists talks and workshops. Streetcube began as part of Lightmares, a curated multi-event professional development program in 2010, and was the main drawcard in 2010 and 2011 at Surfers Paradise Festival’s Oneway Street Party. Watch this space for future Streetcube projects.

In July 2011 four of Australia’s most talented emerging artists Beastman, Shida, Gimiks Born and Jae Copp came together for the first time to participate in Streetcube. For this project we conducted an all-ages workshop, artist talks and a large-scale collaborative mural where the artists were invited to explore the four seasons theme: Winter (Shida), Autumn (Jae Copp), Summer (Gimiks Born) and Spring (Beastman).

Streetcube followed on the success of the first year’s Parkrise mural project, and was held on 9 July as part of the Oneway Project party. The laneway party attracted 12,000 people throughout the day and evening, and also showcased musical performances, exhibitions, live art and pop-up fashion stalls. Today the mural serves as a souvenir of this one-day celebration of culture. At its core, Streetcube promotes street art as a positive, socially-relevant practice, and is a contribution to the recent creative surge we continue to witness on the Gold Coast.

Streetcube has received press coverage from media outlets such as Getaway TV, Art Monthly Australia, Art Nation, Gold Coast Bulletin, ABC Radio and Monster Children. The current mural can be viewed 24/7 at Parkrise building, Alison and Appel St, Surfers Paradise. In 2011 Streetcube received generous assistance from an Arts Queensland grant.

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Surfers Paradise Festival 2011.

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2011 artists: Beastman, Shida,Gimiks Born + Jae Copp.
More images of Streetcube 2011 on Flikr.

2010 artists: Mymo, Georg, Sam Smith, Claudio Kirac + Kitty Horton. Streeetcube 2010 photos (for the Lightmares project).
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STREETCUBE 2011 ARTISTS:

L-R: Beastman, Jae Copp, Shida, Gimiks Born

Beastman is one of Australia’s most distinctive and prolific emerging artists. Based in Sydney, he has exhibited extensively in galleries throughout Australia, and has shown in London, Berlin and New Zealand. His murals can be seen all over the streets of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. As well as being founder and editor of the online art publication [weAREtheIMAGEmakers]. Beastman curates numerous art exhibitions and events, and has designed skateboards and graphics for various brands including Element, Folklore and Mingo Lamberti. Beastman was recently profiled on ABC’s Rush TV and has featured in publications such as Empty, Semi-Permanent, Tees, Deadbeat, Oyster, Spitpress, Australian Creative and more.

Jae Copp is based on the Gold Coast, and holds a certificate IV in ‘Graphic Design’ and ‘Digital Arts and Multimedia’ and has exhibited extensively in group shows around Australia. He has been featured in the following selected publications: Empty, Wooden Toy Quarterly, Frankie, Gold Coast Bulletin, Clay and We Are the Image Makers. He has worked for such clients as Absolut, Darc’y Surfboards, Wooden Toy , The Breeders and Red Bull. Jae continues to gain a humble recognition for his craft, exhibiting extensively throughout Australia and featured throughout numerous magazines and web publications such as Kingbrown, Frankie, Gold Coast Bulletin, and We Are The Image Makers.

Despite his age, Shida is one of Brisbane’s street art heavyweights and has been well received by both Australian and European galleries. From success in his 2009 solo exhibition ‘Fate’s Fantasy’ at Vienna’s Inoperable gallery and the ‘Stroke 2.0’ urban art fair in Munich, to his sell out Brisbane show‘Crystal’s of the Colossus’, things are looking bright for this young artist. Shida’s futuristic mystics inhabit a distant universe and traverse multiple dimensions. They are a promising investment for the art savvy.

Gimiks born is a Brisbane-based self-taught artist whose graphic design background has fostered his graffiti and illustration centred works.He has exhibited extensively around Australia and his work can also be found in private collections throughout New Zealand, U.S.A., France, Canada and the United Kingdom.

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