Murals
Art is what sets us apart from so many festivals. We love to support talented artists who bring a fresh flavour to the festival and turn Strawberry into a canvas of imagination.
Be surprised and delighted with pops of colour, paint and live muralists as you roam, dance and play among the ghost gums alongside the Murray.
Stop, chat and connect with the artists and discover more about their craft and inspirations.
Aleks Grilz is a Blue Mountains raised painter currently working out of Melbourne. Graduating from the National Art School Sydney. His practice primarily consists of large scale murals along with smaller scale studio work. His energetic style encompasses multiple means of paint application, from aerosol, brush and a mini roller on an extension pole. The world building of his painting practice is inspired by the different realms around him, be it physical or digital. His work of late is figurative and working within a Science fiction framework. Predominantly using the human body to fill the varying walls, often depicting reoccurring characters and symbolic motifs which convey a non linear narrative, revealing his fictional world. He uses a sartirical lense with the intention of conveying prophetic images of a possible future or alternate reality.
French-born artist Lucy Lucy immigrated to Australia in 2006 and currently resides in Melbourne. She has become a prominent figure in the Australian urban art community, specializing in large-scale mural painting for over a decade. Her work includes collaborations with city councils, corporate clients like New Balance and Marriott Hotels, and community organizations across Australia and Europe. Lucy’s practice also extends to creating digital and physical artworks for brands such as Nike, Dr. Martens, and Federation Square.
Lucy’s figurative paintings blend bright geometrical and organic patterns, exploring the evolution of nature and culture through her experiences in Australia, her collaborations with culturally diverse artists, and her global travels. Her work is a refined fusion of vibrant colours, intricate textures, and captivating shapes, portraying women as symbols of social change, through the emergence of future cultures and alternatives narratives.
Hera Wing is a Naarm-based multimedia artist whose work dissolves the boundaries between the organic and the unearthly. Utilizing a variety of sensorial stimuli, found objects and household refuse, she distils surreal imagery into immersive worlds that bend notions of utopia and dystopia.
Raised off-grid in the forests of northern New Zealand, Hera developed a deep affinity for biological structures and the rhythms of the natural world. This solitude nurtured an enduring curiosity for human psychology and the interplay between internal perception, external realities, and technological interference.
Her work frequently explores chimeric hybrids—human, animal, and plant forms tangled in dreamlike refractions of life and sentience. What first appears alien reveals its earthly origins upon closer inspection, reflecting the fluidity of nature and an ever-blurring line between the natural and the engineered.
Mahtous is a visionary surrealist artist whose work explores the intersection of nature, metaphysics, and the inner and outer dimensions of existence. Through vivid imagery and dreamlike compositions, Mahtous invites viewers into realms where the boundaries between reality and imagination dissolve.
Jack Rowland is a Melbourne-based artist, whose chromatic and saturated landscape paintings aim to offer alternative perceptions of the natural world. Rowland holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) from RMIT University, Melbourne. He has been exhibiting nationally and internationally including James Makin Gallery, Anna Pappas Gallery, Linden New Art, Rubicon ARI, Blindside Gallery, Flinders Lane Gallery and Kunstraum Tapir (Berlin). Rowland received the Hawkesbury Art Prize Highly Commended Award in 2015, and has also been short listed for a number of prizes such as Bayside Aquisitive Art Prize, Albany Art Prize and Substation Art Prize.
Veins is a Melbourne based artist who practice’s in the Dandenong’s and travels around Australia creating nature themed murals. Christian has painted murals and canvas for over 15 years inside studios, galleries and concrete jungles. With a background in Street and Fine Art his work expresses what he’s learned. The calming effect of nature where less says more is displayed in every creation. A proficient colour palette is exercised in each painting, Soft gradients against acute shapes layer into each other. With his meticulous attention to atmosphere and visual weight each aesthetic compliments the next.
Juzpop is an Australian artist best known for her vibrant mural works. Blurring the line between realism and dreamlike abstraction, her work dives into themes of transformation, mental health, and the complexities of the human experience.
Fuelled by personal introspection, Juzpop moves between the street and the studio, always experimenting and pushing her style into new territory.