This project sits just outside Canberra and forms part of my broader mural work across the ACT region, including youth spaces, workshops, public art activations, and place-making projects. The brief was to create a bold, energetic mural for the Queanbeyan Youth Centre and skate park, bringing colour, movement, and character to a space used daily by young people. The artwork was designed to feel welcoming, expressive, and grounded in the community it represents.
Throughout the course of production, we hosted several workshops for local youth aged 11-25 years from Karabar High School, Queanbeyan High, St Gregory’s, and St Clares College introducing a broad range of skills from initial consultation to concept and design, planning and eventually the hands-on hard work of executing a large scale mural.
From a lifetime of making Art, Mike’s skill set is broad as is his range of creative influences. His driving passion for creating stemmed from an early love of comic books and cartoons and later developed to the influences of action sports, urban and rural landscapes, people and wildlife, concrete and culture.