First Coat, Toowoomba 2015

First coat 2015 is back for a second year in the sunshine coast town of TooWoomba, Australia. First Coat 2015 officially kicks off tomorrow morning with thirty large scale murals across the city, fourteen free side events & live music at the festival HQ.

Dubbed Second Coat, the three day festival starts 16th May and will continue through until Monday 18th May. Except some seriously talented street artists for the three day event. Headliners of the festival include Californian Madsteez, Does from the Netherlands and New Zealand based artist Askew.

There are also programmed side events running over the three days including exhibition openings by Shida, a custom group show by printhouse, Stupid Krap, Urban Design panel discussions, laneway markets, artist talks and eighteen musical acts playing at the pop up Swamp Bar at Kontraband Studios.

Artists began to arrive today to prepare for the unique cultural event which has put Toowoomba on the map. Toowoomba is seeing young people create their own environment with such passion and drive that the cultural input is attracting a completely different demographic group. GraffitiStreet sent local girl Danni to find out what First Coat is all about and capture the beginning of the festival.

First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
First Coat. Photo © Danni Poyner
Adnate. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Adnate. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Adnate. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Alex Lehours. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Alex Lehours. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Alice Weinthal. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Alice Weinthal. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Alison Mooney. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Askew. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Askew. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Catherine Parker. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Cinzah. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Claire Mathews. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Does. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Does. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Does. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Does. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Drapl Treas. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Drapl Treas. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Elana Mullaly. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Georgia Hill. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Joel Birch. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
John Kaye. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Jumbo. Photo © Luke Shirlaw
Kyle Jenkins. Photo © Luke Shirlaw

 

Comments

comments

Calling all Street Art fans

If you are holding a street art festival please get in touch with us as Graffitistreet would love to cover your event and share it with our readers.

Street artists, please drop us a line to share your latest murals and the inspiration behind them; GraffitiStreet want to know about the thoughts and ideas that breathe life into your pieces!

Or, if you are a lover of all things street art and would like to write a guest Blog post for GraffitiStreet, get in contact too! We would love to hear from you and what you have got to say.

All words and photos used must be the author’s own or the author has gained permission from the source and clearly credits the source blog. Author takes full responsibility for copyright.

Share your comments