Registrations Open: Artiz Street Art at USQ

Dr. Rhi Johnson is a Toowoomba based artist and lecturer who works primarily in the fields of Printmaking, Artist’s Books and Mixed Media art.  She is interested in the formation of everyday narratives, and how these can be disrupted or subverted visually.  Rhi investigates visual cues that  can punctuate an environment, object or space of perceived meaning, and in doing so, may allude to subconscious methods of processing information.  She explores these through smaller scale book, paper and canvas works, through to large-scale mural works.

Karri McPherson was born in Hong Kong and emigrated to Australia soon after. She is a contemporary painter and muralist living in Toowoomba, Queensland and is undertaking a Bachelor of Creative Art at the University of Southern Queensland. Throughout 2017, she undertook a month-long residency learning how to translate her work onto a large scale, ultimately leading to her participation in the First Coat Festival. Her practice explores geometric art in relation to contemporary spatial confinements and through her hard-edge forms she seeks to break down the boundaries of perception. By actualising hard-edge forms within a public setting, McPherson seeks to understand the power that geometric street art has to infuse communities with the simplistic beauty of shape, form and colour.