What a decade of it added up to.
Public art is easy to talk about and hard to count. These are the numbers we can actually stand behind, and where they came from.
Mural viewings are from the 2021 evaluation of BSAF by IER for Tourism and Events Queensland. Media reach is from the festival’s 2023 media report. Other figures are cumulative, 2016–2025.
The work isn’t concentrated in one precinct. It runs from Fortitude Valley and West End out to Ipswich, the airport and Northshore Hamilton — which is the point. Public art only does its job where people already are.
Brisbane Street Art Festival launches
Lincoln Savage and David Don found BSAF, produced by Vast Yonder. The first edition runs in February.
The QUBE Effect begins
A five-year artist-development program with Brisbane City Council (2017–2022).
Yonder Festival
A multi-arts camping festival launches in the Mary Valley (2019–2022).
Delivering through the pandemic
100+ public works delivered across Brisbane while live events paused.
Superordinary opens
A 1,700m² warehouse + 2,200m² riverside courtyard in Northshore Hamilton.
A decade on the walls
BSAF’s 10th edition, and Brisbane hosts the Australian edition of Meeting of Styles.
Distrosub launches
The artist-direct music platform opens to the public in September, three years after it was founded.
The festival goes on hold
No edition of BSAF runs in 2026. It is ready to return with the right support.
The only number that really matters is how many artists got paid to make something in public.
Across ten editions of Brisbane Street Art Festival alone, more than 220 artists are credited on a documented mural, local, national and international, alongside the producers, curators, install crews and technicians it takes to get a wall painted safely and legally. The full artist roster, edition by edition, lives on the festival site.
+ many more across a decade of work
Numbers are the acquittal. The work is on the walls.
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