About vandal

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Tricia "Vandal" Van Der-Kuyp  is a proud Wiradjuri woman and Melbourne-based mixed media artist (Bundadhaany), stenciler, spray canner, paste-up and sharpie marker artist and all around creative type. In 2019  Vandal was chosen as one of 8 Victorian Artists to have her artwork displayed on a Melbourne Art Tram. She has created public artworks that have decorated a car parking space and gallery door with her murals, as well as a traffic signal box. 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!

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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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Awards

2017 - Globe Skateboard First prize winner

2007 - Faster Louder rising star award
2006 - Centre for Contemporary Photography People's choice award winner