Goya Torres
Goya Torres is a visual artist and muralist based in Macquarie Hills where she has her studio. Her practice moves towards blurring the separation line between fine arts, street-art and illustration in order to develop a visual contemporary language that encapsulates reality nowadays. Primarily a self-taught prolific artist originally from Mexico, Goya Torres artistically draws inspiration from her heritage, climate change, nature, street-art and pop surrealism. Goya has been involved in group exhibitions, live-painting events, street-art festivals, mural and public art projects in Australia, Mexico, USA, United Kingdom and Europe since 2012. Some of her artwork is now part of private collections in Sydney, Melbourne and Mexico. Her 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 recently received the 'LakeMac Artist and Creator Award' by the Lake Macquarie Council and has been shortlisted as one of the local artists painting at the Big Picture Festival in Newcastle this year.
Her expression travels through painting, public art, mural work and printmaking. She predominately uses a mix traditional media such as oils, acrylics, spray-paint, oil pastels, charcoal and printmaking techniques on canvas, paper and wood. She has also painted fibreglass sculptures for public art trails and murals for various street-art festivals.
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