Trade Practice

Born and raised in Cairns, Daniel (Wally) Wallwork is a contemporary artist whose practice spans visual arts, public art, education, and community engagement. His diverse career includes roles as a professional aerosol artist, sculptor, curator, event producer, arts worker, small business owner, father, and former Chair of the KickArts Contemporary Arts (NorthSite) Board.

An established gallery artist and one of North Queensland’s leading contemporary practitioners, Daniel draws heavily on more than 25 years of experience as an automotive and industrial spray painter. His work is distinguished by the use of premium automotive and industrial materials, creating highly refined, visually striking pieces that explore colour, light, and form.

Daniel is also widely recognised throughout regional Queensland, particularly across Cape York Peninsula and remote Aboriginal communities, as a mural artist, arts educator, and community collaborator.

Jack Rodgers is a South East Queensland-based painter and a graduate of Griffith University Queensland College of Art.

Jack’s painting practice is driven by oral history and the ways stories shape our understanding of places, people, and events beyond our own lived experience. Working from found photographs as well as his own references, he explores a sense of nostalgia to construct bodies of work from fragments of memory, historical references, and personal accounts. He is increasingly engaging directly with the communities and events that inspire his work, expanding his interest from remembered histories into the living traditions of contemporary Australian culture. By immersing himself in these environments, he documents not only the spectacle of the event but also the subtle interactions, rituals, and social dynamics that surround it.

Jack has been a finalist in the Brisbane Portrait Prize, the Percival Portrait Prize, and the Redland Art Award. In April 2026, he won the John Villiers Outback Art Prize for his painting Man at a Bull Ride. His current body of work is presented in Fisho, a major solo exhibition at Redland Art Gallery. The exhibition will tour to Hervey Bay Regional Gallery and Rockhampton Museum of Art over the next two years.

Matt Rees is a Brisbane-based signwriter and fabricator with more than 45 years of experience in the industry. Working across a number of mediums, including vinyl, paint and fabrication, Matt's practice combines commercial and personal works.

Commercially, Matt produces signage for businesses across Queensland and assists with vinyl production and exhibition installation for clients including the Institute of Modern Art, Griffith University Art Museum and Metro Arts.

In his personal practice, Matt engages heavily with motorcycle subculture, recreating and fabricating components to maintain lineage. He has toured Australia extensively on motorbikes and has ridden one of the world’s highest roads.