Brisbane Street Art Festival

Australia's largest Street Art Festival returns to Brisbane for 2022 with an epic line-up of live murals, art events and workshops from May 7-21, 2022.

Brisbane Street Art Festival (BSAF) has been pioneering Australia’s street art festival movement year after year and this will be its largest program yet, presenting 50 live public murals and installations, a plethora of art events, and an interactive all-ages workshop program for the public.

International artists are back for the first time since 2019, adding their spice of culture to Brisbane’s concrete jungle during the two-week festival. Street art masters will travel from the USA, Spain, Russia, Thailand, Indonesia and New Zealand to be a part of the event. They will join influential Australian and Indigenous players such as Sofles, Lisa King, and Rachael Sarra who will take this year’s festival to the next level.

BSAF will introduce Superordinary Northshore as the central hub for the 2022 festival. The festival’s large-scale warehouse Head Quarters is a grandiose space that will host a myriad of the program’s finest art events and will sit amongst 12 mural activations from the festival schedule. Take a sneak peek at Superordinary Northshore during BSAF 2022, starting with the BSAF Opening Party on May 7.

Outside of Northshore Brisbane, the live mural sites will spread across iconic locations in the city - Howard Smith Wharves, Queen St Mall, RNA Showgrounds, The Valley Mall, and South Bank to name a few.

The Artists aren’t the festivals only import this year, BSAF will host HKwall’s Tools of the Trade exhibition straight from the hustle and bustle of Hong Kong. The exhibition frames the history of street art and graffiti through the lens of the tools that artists use to create their work. It highlights the ingenuity and the inventiveness of the artists by focusing on the techniques and tools that allowed them to produce their best works before commercial companies created products just for artists.

Tools of the Trade is a snapshot of the calibre of events, exhibitions and artist talks BSAF will host for 2022. This includes collaborations with Brisbane’s Botanica- Contemporary Art Outside which sees a 90-minute Scribble Slam in amongst their stunning open-air art exhibition, and House of Iris with a Brisbane-themed photography exhibit that celebrates and connects the rising local photography scene. Don’t miss the BSAF x Felon’s Party which will showcase Brisbane’s graffiti trailblazer Sofles’ artwork on a beer can that carries an exclusive BSAF brew.

The workshop program offering has more than doubled since the previous year and welcomes the public of all ages and backgrounds to get involved and express themselves creatively. New additions to the public program include Yarn Bombing and an Intro to Tufting.