Beastman is an artist based in Sydney. Influenced by the beauty and symbolism behind nature’s repetitive geometric patterns and organic lines, Beastman's tightly detailed, often symmetrical paintings depict a parallel world of hope and survival inhabited by his beastlike yet beautiful and emotive characters. These instantly recognisable and loveable deities have spawned from the elements of the earth, as if nature has come to life in a way we could never have imagined.

One of the most distinctive and prolific emerging artists in Australia and founder and editor of the online art publication [weAREtheIMAGEmakers], Beastman has exhibited extensively throughout Australia, as well as London, Berlin and New Zealand. He has curated and organised numerous art exhibitions and events, has designed skateboards and graphics for various brands including Element, Folklore, Mingo Lamberti, The Art Park and Lowlife of London and has also been commissioned to create artwork for Hyundai, Smirnoff, Red Bull, Stone & Wood Brewery, Tiger Beer and Huawei. Beastman was recently named Best Artist at the 2010 Sydney Music, Arts & Culture (SMAC) Awards and also spoke at the 2010 Semi-Permanent conferences in Melbourne and Perth. His large public mural aerosol works can be found all over Australia and in London, Berlin, Hong Kong and New York, he has also been featured in publications such as Empty, Amateur, Kingbrown, Tees, Deadbeat, Oyster, Australian Creative and more.

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Upcoming Exhibitions:

Solo Exhibition - House of Bricks, Melbourne - April 2012
Castro Street Art Project - Tel Aviv, Israel - May 2012

Solo Exhibitions:

Cosmic Nature - Kind Of Gallery, Sydney - December 2011
Infinite Nature - Gorker Gallery, Melbourne - July 2010
Intrinsic Nature - Oh Really Gallery, Sydney - May 2009
Intrinsic Nature - National Grid Gallery, Sydney - May 2009
Intrinsic Nature - Nine Lives Gallery, Brisbane - April 2009
Beastman Begins - China Heights Gallery, Sydney - November 2008
Beastman Folklore Launch - Momentum, Perth - September 2008

Selected Group Exhibitions:

I Have A Theme - Tshirt Exhibition - Magazine, Adelaide - January 2012
Mural Installation - The Art Park, Byron Bay - January 2012
Outpost Project - website - Cockatoo Island, Sydney - November 2011
Transient - Ambush - The Galeries, Sydney - October 2011
Paper Thin - Colour by Numbers Gallery, Sydney - August 2011
Look Hear & Look See - website - Newcastle - August 2011
Life - Heaps Good - East Gallery, London - July 2011
Etcc Creative Commons - Ambush Gallery, Sydney - May 2011
The Empty Exhibition - Ambush Gallery, Sydney - April 2011
The Empty Exhibition - The National Grid, Sydney - April 2011
Rtist Gallery Opening - Rtist Gallery, Melbourne - April 2011
Microcosm - with Creepy, Max Berry & Phibs - Lo-Fi Collective, Sydney - Dec 2010
Don't Push Mong - China Heights, Sydney - December 2010
Tiger Translate - Melbourne - November 2010
Spare Parts - website - Powerhouse, Brisbane - November 2010
The Happy Tree, Element Advocate Show - Monster Children, Sydney - Nov 2010
Still Life - FBi Art Auction - Art Gallery NSW, Sydney - October 2010
Sweet Streets - 1000 Pound Bend, Melbourne - October 2010
Semi-Permanent - site - GPO, Melbourne - September 2010
Semi-Permanent - site - The Bakery, Perth - September 2010
Don't Go Into The Attic - Lo-Fi Collective, Sydney - September 2010
The Places In-Between - site - 580 George St, Sydney - September 2010
Brave New Worlds (with Luke Taaffe) - Nine Lives, Brisbane - August 2010
This is How We Roll - China Heights, Sydney - August 2010
Pop Rocks - Stupid Krap - Urban Uprising, Sydney - July 2010
The Keg Show - Stone & Wood - Byron Bay, GC & Sydney - June/July 2010
Kingbrown Issue 6 Exhibition - website - Butcher Shop, Fremantle - June 2010
Scratching the Surface - Creative Sydney - MCA, Sydney - June 2010
Semiotics - Nine Lives Gallery, Brisbane - June 2010
This Is How We Roll - website - Perth - May 2010
Edge of Love - Strychnin Gallery, Berlin - April 2010
Faxhibition - website - China Heights Gallery, Sydney - April 2010
Mixed Business - Semi Permanent - Ambush Gallery, Sydney - March 2010
Don't Shoot - Last Chance Studios, Perth - March 2010
Dumpster Exhibition - Adelaide Urban Art Festival - March 2010
Mays Lane - Mays Lane, Sydney - February 2010
Give a Trunk - Monster Children, Sydney - February 2010
Beastman, Numskull, Phibs & Yok - aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney - December 2009
Project 5 - Live Painting - Cockle Bay Wharf, Sydney - December 2009
Mugshots - Oh Really Gallery, Sydney - December 2009
Small Fry - Nine Lives Gallery, Brisbane - December 2009
Hardcover No Jacket - Oh Really Gallery, Sydney - September 2009
In Full Bloom - watim - 580 George St, Sydney - September 2009
Forty Thieves 2: The Cuban Connection - Gorker Gallery, Melbourne - August 2009
Make Friend II - Norfolk Basement, Fremantle WA - August 2009
The Retired Materials - Extra Cheeese - Saatchi & Saatchi, Sydney - 6 August 2009
Overgrowth 2 - myspace - Last Chance Studio, Perth - June 2009
I Used to Skate Once 5 - website - Outpost - The Zoo, Brisbane - June 2009
Kingbrown Issue 5 Exhibition - website - Gorker Gallery, Melbourne - May 2009
Hungry Like The Wolf - 19 Karen Gallery, Gold Coast - May 2009
Threesome - Art Bastard - Nice/Nice Gallery, Hannover, Germany - April 2009
New Eyes Open- website - Ambush Gallery, Sydney - April 2009
No Comply - website - Red Bull Gallery, Sydney - March 2009
Go Font ur Self - website - Dont Come Gallery, Melbourne - March 2009
Go Font ur Self - website - Peer Gallery, Sydney - February 2009
Another Group Show - Freshly Baked Gallery, Melbourne - February 2009
The Dirty Show - National Grid Gallery, Sydney - February 2009
No Comply - website - No-Vacancy, Melbourne - November 2008
Semi-International - Manky Chops Gallery, Wellington NZ - November 2008
Sleep is the Cousin of Death - Per Square Metre, Melbourne - October 2008
Extra Cheeese 2 - website - Medium Rare Gallery, Sydney - October 2008
Get Trucked - Gallery 696, Melbourne - October 2008
Don't Ban The Can - website - Gallery 696, Melbourne - September 2008
Oh Really Opening - Oh Really Gallery, Sydney - September 2008
Head Case - website - Sofitel Hotel, Melbourne - September 2008
Paste Modernism - website - Hibernian House, Sydney - August 2008
Sidewayz 2008 - Balmoral Boards, MTV Gallery, Sydney - August 2008
Where Mighty Giants Dwell - StupidKrap.com - Retrospect, Byron Bay - August 2008
Golden Brown - EDTN Magazine - Bodhi Gallery, London - June 2008
Kids Today - StupidKrap.com - MTV Gallery, Sydney - April 2008
May Contain Traces of Nuts - watim.com - Paper Shadow, Melbourne - March 2008
Overgrowth - myspace - Formallyknownas Gallery, Perth - December 2007
Across The Board - website - Wallspace Gallery, Sydney - August 2007
12X12 Exhibition - watim.com - aMBUSH Gallery, Sydney - July 2007
Extra Cheeese - website - Gallery 44, Sydney - May 2007

Commission Murals

Streetcube - Surfers Paradise - July 2011
False Behaving Animals - Sydney - June 2011
Oxford Art Factory - Sydney - June 2011
Red Market - Shoreditch, London - April 2011
FBi Social - (with Numskull) - Sydney - March 2011
Holroyd City Council - Toongabbie, Sydney - February 2011
Element Collective - Burleigh Heads - December 2010
Neverland Bar - Coolangatta - December 2010
Huawei - (with Max Berry) Sydney - December 2010
The Bakery - Perth - September 2010
4ZZZ Radio Station - Brisbane - August 2010
Brothers Expresso Cafe - Brisbane - August 2010
Hyundai (with Numskull) - Sydney - July 2010
Oxford Art Factory - Sydney - April 2010
Beach Borrito Coogee - Sydney - April 2010
Mays Lane (with Kid Zoom) - Sydney - February 2010
Westsyde Connection - Sydney - December 2009
Momentum / Folklore Skateboards - Perth - October 2008

Awards

Best Artist - Sydney Music, Arts & Culture (SMAC) Awards 2010 - view

Selected Press

T-Squat - September 2011 - view
Kingbrown - August 2011 - view
Gifted & Talented - August 2011 - view
Art Park Journal 2 - August 2011 - view
Cut & Paste - December 2010 - view
Amateur Magazine - October 2010 - view
Oyster Magazine - July 2010 - view
Pedestrian - June 2010 - view
Spitpress - June 2010 - view
Semi Permanent Book - 2010
Soggybones - March 2010 - view
Invurt - July 2010 - view
Rush TV ABC3 - March 2010 - view
The Opening Hours - October 2009 - view
Side Street Sydney - October 2009 - view
Tees - 2009 - view
Australian Creative - October 2009 - view
Empty Magazine 12 - June 2008 - view
Art Bastard - November 2008 - view
Juxtapoz - November 2008 - view
Australian Edge - November 2008 - view
Oh Really 4 - June 2008 - view
Semi Permanent Book - 2008
Deadbeat 3 - 2007 - view