Benalla Street Art Festival 2026 - part 2

 Street artists at a festival are under great pressure. They often have a huge wall to cover in a few days, they have to cope with weather, equipment malfunction, public expectations that they will stop and talk to them, time constraints and the need for personal breaks for rest & sustenance. Some artists are not keen about heights, they need to drive their own lifts, keep their materials ready and maintain concentration over a long period of time. These artists often start early in the morning and work long after the crowds have gone home, even working by portable lighting.

My message is that if you ever post or publish a photo of street art or silo art, please be sure to include the artist's name. They deserve the recognition for all they have done to produce a piece of art that you think is good enough to photograph, post on the web or use in a publication.

One week later than the first set of photos (previous post), and the completed street art walls are already enlivening Benalla's art scene and drawing visitors.

Vero Coya is a French Canadian painter and illustrator now based in Victoria, Australia

Gus Eagleton is a Brisbane-based contemporary mural artist whose work explores the lives of everyday people, blending imagery and perspective.

 

   

Timur Fork is a Moscow-based artist. He is the founder of 'plasticine realism' - hyper-realistic painting.

JUZPOP is a Melbourne-based artist and muralist known for large scale murals which can be found in Australia and overseas.

                                   

Mattie Davo is a local artist who blends traditional and contemporary signwriting skills with street art sensibilities.

Krimsone is an Australian street artist, his work having a surreal, dreamlike visual language.                                  

                                      

                                        

Jasmine Crisp is a painter and muralist from Adelaide, she works with traditional techniques to create highly detailed murals.

MurOne is a Spanish graphic designer, graffiti artist and muralist whose passion is large scale abstract geometric works.

SARSAR is a Western Australian visual artist whose work styles include painting, illustration and large scale public murals.



                               

                               

MadWings is an artist duo (Jason Wing & Maddison Gibbs) who together create site specific public art that transform urban environments into living canvases.

Kitsune Jolene is a Belgian born contemporary mural artist who works in Australia and around the world. Her murals incite quiet reflection while maintaining a strong visual presence within the public space.

                                  

Snippets of information on all the artists are taken from the Benalla Street Art Festival 2026 booklet. The artists are listed in order of walking around the streets and lanes, commencing at the Information Centre in Mair Street, Benalla.

An additional artist at the festival:

AMAC WEWF is an artist born and based in Melbourne. He is part of the When Ever We're Free crew, a Melbourne-based street art and graffiti team.

And that's it for my blog posts of the 2026 Benalla Street Art Festival