This Rollershutter Art piece has been created as part of the Mpartnwe Street Art Festival 2024 in conjunction with Red Hot Arts and proudly sponsored by Activate Alice.
The featured artwork, the 'Redtail' is 1 piece of a series inspired by the cockatoos spotted in Central Australia, alongside the galah and the yellow crested cockatoo.
Originally painted on sketching paper with acrylics and detailed with fineline pens, the artist transferred the pieces digitally, where they were able to further play around with and achieve the concept that each breed offers a unique and distinct set of colors and patterns to its counterparts/ cousins.
The Artist
Bart Michael, 32, Born in Aotearoa and now based in Tarntanya, Bart Michael is a self-taught artist and singer/ songwriter who uses an array of different medias to create simple yet bold pieces that capture the beauty of his subjects and offers a humbly unique flair.
Bart spent the better part of the past decade in Mparntwe, the heart of the country, where he learned and practiced the healing and story telling qualities of art in his personal and professional lives.
In their day-to-day, Bart Michael is a family support worker, providing intensive, trauma-informed and therapeutic support/ solutions to young people & adults. Cemented in a foundation of trust and safety, the artist's primary focus is to walk alongside people to build them up, find and present appropriate opportunities and pathways to succeed and repair or heal fractures caused by generational and past traumas - something that is mirrored and echoed throughout their story telling, songs and art works.