Four hundred artworks, in public, for free.
Vast Yonder is the Brisbane operator behind a decade of public art, festivals and venues. Artists take the poster; we take the credits block. This is the record of what got built.
- Public artworks
- 400+
- Operating
- 10 yrs
- Ventures
- 4
- Partners
- 50+
Ventures
We don’t just advise on culture — we operate the whole stack. Brisbane Street Art Festival, on hold since its tenth edition in 2025, is the public program; Superordinary is the venue where much of it is made and shown; Yonder Festival proved our multi-arts event capability; and Distrosub, launched in September 2025, extends the artist-infrastructure thesis to recorded music.
Brisbane Street Art Festival
Australia’s largest street art festival by documented murals.
Ten editions from 2016 to 2025, and 320 documented murals across Brisbane and Ipswich. On hold, and ready to return with the right support.
Superordinary
A multi-arts venue in Northshore Brisbane.
Northshore Hamilton’s most adaptable venue — a 1,700m² warehouse and 2,200m² riverside courtyard for art, music and events.
Yonder Festival
A multi-arts camping festival in the Mary Valley.
A multi-day camping music and arts festival in the Sunshine Coast hinterland (2019–2022) — grounded in inclusivity, experimentation and emerging practice.
Distrosub
Artist-direct infrastructure for music.
A subscription platform that puts the relationship — and the revenue — back between artists and the people who back them.
The work
Brisbane Airport Murals
A commissioned mural program turning the gateway to Brisbane into a first and last impression made by the city’s own artists.
Queensland Museum Rail Workshops Mural
A major commissioned mural at The Workshops Rail Museum in North Ipswich, bridging one of Queensland’s oldest industrial sites and its public present.
Maritime Green Park Public Art
Public art anchoring a new green space in the Northshore Hamilton priority development area — art as a placemaking tool for an emerging precinct.
BMW Art Cars
A moving-canvas partnership that put Brisbane street artists onto BMW vehicles as one-off, roving public artworks.
The Qube Effect
A five-year artist-development program with Brisbane City Council that turned the city’s electrical utility boxes into a canvas — and a paid first commission — for emerging street artists.
Ipswich Public Art Program
A city-wide mural program that turned Ipswich’s walls into a public gallery — run as a sub-program of Brisbane Street Art Festival, with workshops, artist panels and a street party built around it.
Artists Fintan Magee, Gus Eagleton, Rachael Sarra +4
A decade, at scale.
Mural viewings are from the 2021 evaluation of BSAF by IER for Tourism and Events Queensland. Media reach is from the festival’s 2023 media report. Other figures are cumulative, 2016–2025.
The full record →Culture isn’t decoration. It’s the infrastructure of how a city understands itself — and like any infrastructure, someone has to programme it, build it, maintain it and hand it over. Since 2016 that has been our job.
The festival is on hold. The rest of the work carries on.
Brisbane Street Art Festival has no date for its next edition and is ready to return with the right support. Most of what we make is free and in the street. If you want to programme something with us, put artists on a wall, or use the venue, start here.