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PAINT THE TOWN Wingecarribee

PAINT THE TOWN (PTT) brings nationally established artists to work simultaneously with local talent to create murals that reflect our recovery journey since the 2019 Black Summer fires. PPT murals are inspired by co-design workshops held with fire-affected community members.

This festival is a celebration of art that brings colour, vibrancy and culture to our region and represents the voices and insights of community members impacted by bushfire.

PTT murals are being created across the Southern Highlands from 11- 23 April 2023.

To launch the event, Southern Tablelands Arts (STA) and Mental Bowral hosted a free, family event on Saturday April 15 at Ward Lane in Mittagong. The Laneway Festival featured live music from local and regional artists such as Shard, local-legendary linguist Peter Campbell and headliner Jerikye Williams with free creative workshops with the Fun ‘da Mental art space

PTT is the brainchild of Wollondilly based street artist Joe Quilter, who brought his dream of a street art festival to STA and before you could say abracadabra PTT became a reality. Our only addition was to say let’s do four street art festivals and really have some fun.

PTT Wingecaribee is possible with support from the Black Summer Bush Fire Grants and Wingecaribee Shire Council.

Follow @stapaintthetown on Instagram for event updates.

Meet the mural makers

Fintan McGee @fintan_magee will tranform the wall at Inspiration Paints Bowral.

Fintan is social realist painter, specializing in large-scale murals. He started drawing at a young age and is now one of Australia’s leading street artists, with his paintings found all over the world.

Drawing from personal experience and the mundane, Fintan's figurative paintings are deeply integrated with the urban environment and explore themes of diversity, migration and transition, waste and consumption, loss, and the environment. His works exude an inherent sentimentality and softness influenced by children’s books and the Low Brow art movement.

Sophi Odling @sophiodling will transform a wall in Mittagong.

Sophi Odling is an Australian artist who paints large-scale murals around the globe. Her work focuses on the beauty amongst the chaos in our everyday lives. The vivid narratives reflect human behaviours, environments and cultures that she encounters on her travels.

Born 1983 in Seoul, South Korea, Sophi grew up in Sydney, Australia where she is currently based. In 2005 Sophi completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the UNSW College of Fine Arts (CoFA).

Sophi began painting murals in 2017 after a 14-year career in fashion. Her murals can be seen across Europe, America, Asia and Australia. Sophi presents her works in hope to celebrate the acceptance of cultural diversity, borderless minds, and the beautiful innocence of youth.

Joe Quilter @weitwo will be painting the side of Bundanoon Botanicals with a giant black cockatoo.

As the PAINT THE TOWN creative director, Joe knows the powerful role of art in the recovery of our community following the bushfires. His work can be seen across the state and around his home region of Wollondilly. During the festival, Joe is one of the busiest people around keeping everything on track, but will still have time to do a few amazing murals.

Jodie Munday @cr8iveart2523 will be transforming a wall at Harbison Moss Vale.

Jodie works in drawing, painting, woodburning, weaving and textile art, and photography. Her work focuses on native plants, animals and aspects of our rural lifestyle. Jodie grew up with strong connections to culture and country, with a hertiage of Aboriginality (Wiradjuri- Peak Hill, Numalla, Nevertie, Tottenham, Trangie and Narromine) as well as Celtic and British heritage.

Many of her works combine elements of her hertiage and upbringing in a contemporary and colourful palette.

Muralisto @muralisto will transform a wall in Bowral

Social enterprise centred around public art, murals, and community engagement. Muralisto Artists Zoe Suji and Xander Zee use bright colours and patterns to evoke a sense of joy and abundance. Their mural is coming to Bowral and will be started with a community workshop to create a space where people feel welcome and safe to express and explore their own artistic voice.