About vandal

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Tricia "Vandal" Van Der-Kuyp  is a proud Wiradjuri woman and Melbourne-based artist (Bundadhaany). In 2019  Vandal was chosen as one of 8 Victorian Artists to have her artwork displayed on a Melbourne Art Tram. She has created artworks on community art trails around Victoria that have decorated, a sculpture, seats, a barbecue, as well as other public artworks on a car parking space and gallery door with her pop up murals, and traffic signal boxes. She has produced award-winning art on skateboard decks and has published her own distinctive colouring book range, inspired by her Aboriginal heritage.

 

Vandal believes you don't have to be perfect to be a good artist, because ART HAS NO RULES!

 

Vandal runs workshops and engages in art drops around Australia where she releases her characters such as dingos, wolves, and orangutans on small canvases for adventurous art collectors to discover.

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Vandal's artwork is distinctive, bold, energetic and full of imagination, love and whimsy. Her work has been described as – 

 

'A wonderment for the eyes and a spark plug for the mind.'

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Artist CV

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Public Art

2021 Having a Yarn and Day Dreaming (the quiet) | Croydon, Victoria

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2021 Koalafied + Barrandhang | Me and Uoo Uoo Royal Children’s Hospital Art Trail | South Melbourne, Victoria

 

2020 Honeyeater and Kingfisher | Mooroolbark Street Art Trail | Mooroolbark, Victoria

 

2019 Marbaamarbaa garingali (multi-coloured native dog) | Melbourne Art Tram | Melbourne International Arts Festival | Melbourne, Victoria

 

2019 Dhaghanu Ngurambang / Where is your country | Maroondah Arts Anthropocene art trail, Ringwood, Victoria

 

2019 Tunstall Square Car Park | Tunstall Square Shopping Centre | Doncaster, Victoria

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Group Exhibition

2018 -2020 - Koorie Heritage Trust Annual Art Show | Koorie Heritage Trust | Melbourne, Victoria

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Selected Commission

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2020 StMarque | Car Wrap 

2020  Retainr | Reusable Cup