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.
My work is driven by contrasts — identity and anonymity, sensitivity and brutality, spirit and form. I want it to reflect the immense power, vulnerability and mystery of being human — while retaining a playful naivety.
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.
A work isn’t complete until someone else has encountered it. 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
