I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the lands in which I live and work. I pay respect to Elders past, present and emerging.

Independent Melbourne artist transforms his suburban experience into primal, deeply affecting work — C. Yestadt.

I’ve exhibited my work since the early ‘90s, but I’ve been drawing my whole life. It’s what kept me out of trouble while growing up in the suburbs. 

I create with wild brutality, like an intuitive child or a mysterious prehistoric culture. The work is about energy, contrasts and inner beauty.

When I’m creating I get lost in a ritual of the senses. I see flashes of shapes and colours, it’s like music is passing through me, the aromas of paint and incense hang in the air, I sip tea and I feel surfaces and materials collide as marks are made. I’m always trying to capture and share that energy. 

Although I have a reputation for polarising audiences with dangerous work, I’m not out to shock. I’m out to connect. 

I’m grateful to both the supporters and opposers of my work. Without them my practice wouldn’t be the cathartic experience I continually crave.



Artist background


2023 Buy or Cry group show SOL Gallery

2023 Hoodie Economics launch group show Heaps Nice

2023 Echoes in Paint solo show SOL Gallery

2023 Leadbeater Studio / Gallery launches in St Kilda

2023 Novel group show Melbourne City Library

2023 Winter Days group show Off the Kerb

2023 Time Blind group show Just Another Agency Revolver Upstairs

2023 Home solo show Framing Studio Heathmont

2023 Garden of Eden curation and live painting event

2023 Beloved solo show Elwood Framing Studio

2023 Gather Together group show Long Gallery Hobart

2022 Dealers Choice online group show Just Another Agency

2022 Feature wall Revolver Upstairs

2022 Collusion collaborative works with Sahil Roy KSR Gallery

2022 Banther Fodder 2 group show Honey Bones

2022 Off the Kerb 15 Anniversary group show

2022 Past, Present and Futurenever podcast room mural Rialto precinct Eddie Zammit and Radio Velvet

2022 Lemonade group show Honey Bones

2022 LoJo Festival group show Marfa Gallery

2022 Conversations group show Honey Bones

2022 Together Season solo show Off the Kerb

2022 Winter Days group show Off the Kerb

2022 Red Bubble HQ pillar mural Just Another Agency

2022 Paste Up show for Melbourne Fringe Festival

2022 Board to Death group show at Kindred Studios

2022 For the DECKADE at Backwoods Gallery

2022 New Territories solo show Marfa Gallery

2022 Spring Days group show Off the Kerb

2021 Honeypalooza group show

2021 For the Earth group show Marfa Gallery

2021 Q Bank artist Residency solo show Queenstown

2020 The Rochester solo show

2020 Can’t Do Tomorrow Festival Kensington

2019 Suburban Primitive solo show Juddy Roller

2019 Blackcat group show

2019 Salutations group show

2019 Oysters & Art group show

2019 SAINT solo show

2019 Youngbloods solo show

2018 Mickey Arthouse Melbourne Central

2018 Thousand Skulls group show for Palliative Care Victoria

2018 Two Dots Collective group show

2018 Panelist at Box Hill Institute Design Expo

2018 Within Us solo show

2018 Interviewed on No Cure mag blog

2018 Fitzroy Art Collective group show

2017 Interviewed on Benchtalk podcast  

2016 One year daily art challenge 

2016 RB Residency group show 

2015 Redbubble Artist Residency  

2015 Redbubble speaker series

2014 Work featured at ART + MEL  

2014 Prints featured Temple & Webster 

2013 Work featured on Artist Lane 

2012 AGDA Award for illustration

2012 Featured in Capiusa magazine  

2011 Skate Photo Comp Finalist

2011 State of Design Festival exhibit

2011 Black & White vs Colour

2011 VS – solo show

2010 ‘moving’ art installation project

2009 Round Up Show PM2

2009 In-store mural for Mooks

2009 Shortlisted in a UK T-Shirt design competition

2009 Host online Typography group

2008 Featured in internationally recognised typographic blog

2007 Artwork featured in STU

2007 Amourdillo Deck Art featured in The Age

2007 Percival Portraiture Award

2006 BSG Auction

2006 Blue Train Cafe

2005 TILT Contemporary Art Gallery

2005 Community Art Show

2005 Linden Postcard Show

2005 Brandcorp

2004 IRIS House

2003 Creative Factory

2001 Flux HQ

2000 TCB Gallery Benefit

1999 Fringe Architecture

1998 Barkly House

1997 Graphic Art Award Show received Typography Award

1997 Blue Moon Award

1997 Outhouse

1997 GBJ Art

1996 Colour Book Design

1995 Illustrator’s of Australia - Book 5

1995 The Third 9 x 5 Exhibition

1994 SCHILT (four ACAD graduates)

1994 Herald Sun Outdoor Art Show

1994 RSC Past & Present

1994 Fitzworks

1994 Postcards from Fitzroy

1993 Kakadu ’93