PAINT THE TOWN (PTT) Mural Tour

Next date: Friday, 27 December 2024 | 07:00 PM to Tuesday, 23 April 2030 | 11:59 PM

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PAINT THE TOWN (PTT) Mural Tour

Explore Over 50 Vibrant Murals in the Southern Highlands and Beyond

PAINT THE TOWN (PTT) is an evolving street art experience that invites you to tour the Southern Tablelands and discover a powerful collection of over 50 unique murals. This tour captures stories of resilience, healing, and renewal since the 2019 Black Summer fires. With each mural created in collaboration with nationally renowned artists and local talent, PAINT THE TOWN represents community voices through vibrant, thought-provoking artwork.

The murals, inspired by workshops with fire-affected community members, honor personal stories of recovery and resilience, celebrating the local culture and bringing color and vibrancy back to our landscapes. Joe Quilter, a Wollondilly-based street artist, envisioned PAINT THE TOWN as a way to unite art and community. Working with Southern Tablelands Arts (STA), his idea quickly blossomed into a series of festivals across multiple locations, ensuring that art has a lasting presence in the region.

Take the Mural Tour

Get together with friends or family, hop in the car, or bring your skates, and set off on an unforgettable journey. The PTT Mural Tour is a year-round experience, allowing you to explore these stunning murals at your own pace, in your own way. Along the way, you'll discover artworks that reflect the spirit, culture, and resilience of our community.

PAINT THE TOWN Street Art Locations Map

Event Highlights from PAINT THE TOWN 2023

The 2023 festival kicked off with a family-friendly Laneway Festival on April 15 at Ward Lane in Mittagong. Hosted by STA and Mental Bowral, the event featured live music from local artists including Shard, Peter Campbell, and headliner Jerikye Williams. Families enjoyed free creative workshops and performances, making it a true celebration of art and community.

Supporting Community Renewal

PAINT THE TOWN is made possible through the Black Summer Bushfire Recovery Grants program, supported by Wingecaribee Shire Council, local businesses, and organisations committed to community renewal.

Follow Along

For tour updates, event highlights, and new mural announcements, follow Southern Tablelands Arts on Instagram: @stapaintthetown.

Discover the beauty, stories, and resilience of our community—one mural at a time. PAINT THE TOWN is more than an art tour; it’s a celebration of life, culture, and the collective journey to recovery.

Meet the mural makers

Fintan McGee @fintan_magee Inspiration Paints Bowral.

Fintan is social realist painter, specializing in large-scale murals. He started drawing at a young age and is now one of Australia’s leading street artists, with his paintings found all over the world.

Drawing from personal experience and the mundane, Fintan's figurative paintings are deeply integrated with the urban environment and explore themes of diversity, migration and transition, waste and consumption, loss, and the environment. His works exude an inherent sentimentality and softness influenced by children’s books and the Low Brow art movement.

Sophi Odling @sophiodling Mittagong.

Sophi Odling is an Australian artist who paints large-scale murals around the globe. Her work focuses on the beauty amongst the chaos in our everyday lives. The vivid narratives reflect human behaviours, environments and cultures that she encounters on her travels.

Born 1983 in Seoul, South Korea, Sophi grew up in Sydney, Australia where she is currently based. In 2005 Sophi completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts at the UNSW College of Fine Arts (CoFA).

Sophi began painting murals in 2017 after a 14-year career in fashion. Her murals can be seen across Europe, America, Asia and Australia. Sophi presents her works in hope to celebrate the acceptance of cultural diversity, borderless minds, and the beautiful innocence of youth.

Joe Quilter @weitwo Bundanoon Botanicals

As the PAINT THE TOWN creative director, Joe knows the powerful role of art in the recovery of our community following the bushfires. His work can be seen across the state and around his home region of Wollondilly. During the festival, Joe is one of the busiest people around keeping everything on track, but will still have time to do a few amazing murals.

Jodie Munday @cr8iveart2523 Harbison Moss Vale & Wingecarribee Aboriginal Cultural Centre

Jodie works in drawing, painting, woodburning, weaving and textile art, and photography. Her work focuses on native plants, animals and aspects of our rural lifestyle. Jodie grew up with strong connections to culture and country, with a hertiage of Aboriginality (Wiradjuri- Peak Hill, Numalla, Nevertie, Tottenham, Trangie and Narromine) as well as Celtic and British heritage.

Many of her works combine elements of her hertiage and upbringing in a contemporary and colourful palette.

Muralisto @muralisto Bowral

Social enterprise centred around public art, murals, and community engagement. Muralisto Artists Zoe Suji and Xander Zee use bright colours and patterns to evoke a sense of joy and abundance. Their mural is coming to Bowral and will be started with a community workshop to create a space where people feel welcome and safe to express and explore their own artistic voice.