Goya Torres: Solo Exhibition @ Playstate on Fern
Event description
GOYA TORRES first solo exhibition in Newcastle at PlayState on Fern, renown local street-art gallery. Goya moved to the area three years ago, now based in Lake Macquarie, she has been active in the street-art scene painting in the last Big Picture Festival in 2022 and murals in Toronto, and Darby st.
This show encompass all brand new work driving inspiration from her mural work. GOYA has been painting portraits of children with their spiritual animal carried on their shoulders, symbolising the important relationship we have with nature and our environment, using endemic fauna and vegetation from the area in her very own personal style.
This event is sponsored by Big Picture Festival and X. Opening from 4th May from 6:30PM, exhibition runs from Saturday 4th to Sunday 5th of May until 5pm. Drinks, music and food. One weekend only.
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Goya Torres is a visual/street-artist and muralist originally born in Mexico. Her practice moves towards blurring the separation line between fine arts, street-art and illustration to develop a visual contemporary language that encapsulates reality nowadays. Her expression travels through painting, public art, mural work and printmaking.
Goya draws inspiration from her heritage as well as nature, street-art and pop surrealism. She uses a mix of traditional media such as oils, acrylics, spray-paint and printmaking techniques depending on the format: wall, canvas, paper and wood. She has also painted fibreglass sculptures for public art trails and murals for various projects nationally and internationally.
She has been involved in group exhibitions, live-painting events, street-art festivals, mural and public art projects in Australia, Mexico, Latino-america, USA, United Kingdom and Europe. Some of her artwork is now part of private collections in Sydney, Melbourne, USA, Denmark and Mexico. She has been sponsored by aerosol brands such as NBQ, Molotow and Rodin.
Her mural work got recognition as being part of the “Mural Art Development: Mexico, Japan, Australia" talk at the Saitama Museum of Modern Art in Japan (2017). She won the Hung Up Art Prize at the Street-Art Festival exhibition at Surface Gallery in Nottingham UK (2017) and was finalist at the Northern Beaches Art Prize (2020). She also received 'LakeMac Artist and Creator Award' by the Lake Macquarie Council. Goya currently divides her time in between painting artwork at her studio and doing murals."