With over 20 years experience, self-taught artist Cax One has taken lessons learned from his own graffiti and street art practice and applied these skills, styles, and techniques for applications in galleries, festivals, installations, workshops, and events across the country. His style is an accumulation of references from character design, illustration, graffiti type, and cartoons, with bright, bold colours, sharp, gestural lines, and explosive movement.
Cax has many accolades and well known clients under his belt, including a record opening attendance at Ballarat’s Red Brick Gallery, painting live murals at Falls Festival, reinterpreting a character for Sesame Street, and producing work as part of a national campaign for Telstra. Cax has also lent his dynamic style of illustrative graffiti to adorn the walls of Melbourne’s largest Street Art Festival: Can’t Do Tomorrow, and for Just Another Agency’s Augmented Mural Trail as well as a fun anamorphic installation for The Art Maze: Under the Sea.
The evolution of Cax’s practice has been documented in a short film by Mitch Nivalis which featured on ABC Open, and his works have also gained recognition with features in ‘Street Art: Australia’ and ‘Inside Street Art’, two publications chronicling Australia’s most influential street artists.Despite boasting a full portfolio of diverse and large-scale events and work, Cax continues to dedicate significant time to mentoring young artists and at-risk youth in both Ballarat and Melbourne. With unbridled passion, infectious creative energy, and an immense dedication to his craft, Cax is guaranteed to make a considerable impact throughout the Australian art community for years to come.
