ABOUT THE EXHIBITION

Craig & Karl will be popping up all over Brisbane, activating iconic city sites with their signature colours and inflatables as part of a citywide Public Art Trail. In this iconic return to their hometown, the internationally recognised design duo are sharing a vibrant vision of our city.

The Public Art Trail includes major new artworks by Craig & Karl presented at Brisbane Airport, Brisbane Powerhouse, Brisbane Quarter, Fish Lane Arts Precinct, Griffith University Brisbane CBD Campus, Griffith University Queensland Conservatorium, South Bank Cultural Forecourt, Queensland Performing Arts Centre, Westfield Chermside and throughout Brisbane CBD as part of Brisbane City Council’s Outdoor Gallery Exhibition “Craig & Karl: Rear Vision”

Presented by Brisbane Festival, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane City Council, and Tourism and Events Queensland

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Craig & Karl are an international art and design duo working across design, illustration, and installation. They collaborate daily from their respective bases in New York and London, creating bold, playful, multi-disciplinary work rooted in an evolving exploration of colour, pattern and shape.

Craig Redman & Karl Maier first teamed up in 1996 after meeting as students at the Queensland College of Art & Design, Brisbane. They came to attention as co-founders of design collective Rinzen before establishing themselves as collaborative duo Craig & Karl in 2011. Their beginnings in Brisbane continue to inform their practice, regularly incorporating homages to the city that helped launch their careers. Their dynamic aesthetic employs the artists’ signature message of humour, joy and optimism to explore themes of community, identity, imagination, and love. They have delivered projects for major clients such as Adid-as; Tate London; New Yorker Magazine; Apple; Google; Nike; Vogue International; Vanity Fair; Washington Post; New York Times; and Canary Wharf, London. Their work has been exhibited most notably at the Musée de la Publicité, Paris; Athens’ Onassis Cultural Centre; the Museum for Contemporary Art, Mexico; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; and K11 Foundation, Guangzhou, China.

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