CreativeMornings/BNE - Vibrant with Tervo

Speaker: Tervo
Venue: Felons Barrel Hall
Photographer: Lyndal Carmichael

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The Man, The Myth, The Mullet... Tervo.

Tervo is the result of an inability to sit still and just saying "yes" a lot. He wears many hats: (newly) a dad, a high school teacher, fine artist, muralist, public speaker and advocate for public art in Brisbane.

Tervo is best known as the artist behind Brisbane City Council's Legal Street Art Practice Walls. Having come up through graffiti, he has no formal art education and has built a practice on the back of lessons learned in graffiti.

Gaining recognition as a finalist in Brisbane Portrait Prize, Tervo is proud to feel welcome in both fine art and street art worlds, (despite his long mullet and refusal to dress nicely for fancy events). His goal is now to give back to the graffiti culture that has given him so much and help bring Brisbane's strong graffiti culture to the forefront of the arts.

Tervo (@iamtervo) spoke to our morning people on the theme of #cmvibrant at Felons Barrel Hall.

Moments captured by @lyndalcarmichaelphotography