Art Bag Project

ARTIST NO.34 STEFAN HUNT
The epic work he created for us on this very bag is his wild vision of the cycle of life; from birth to death and all that beauty and mess...

ARTIST NO.33 ARETHA BROWN
“My work is heavily influenced by urban city centres and the communities that shape them...” When Indigenous artist and activist Aretha Brown picks up her brush (or mic, pen, or...

ARTIST NO.32 NORI OKAWA
Nori’s work is inspired by ‘Ukiyo-e’ or “floating world” “What’s your favourite piece you’ve ever created?” A standard question we ask most of our bag artists. It usually elicits some...

ARTIST NO. 31 BEN ROSS
“It’s something fun, a pipe dream of mine to float off into the morning into a big glass of coffee with a ladle in hand and worries out the door.”...

ARTIST NO.30 KAPUT
Well hello to our special 30th edition art bag. For over a decade, we’ve supported 30 different artists on these coffee bags, and made café shelves and kitchen counters better...

Artist NO. 29 Mental Ben
Robot baristas are popping up in barren, fluorescently lit cafes everywhere. Harvard professors are debating whether art made by computers should be considered ‘real art’. Robots are becoming more human....

ARTIST NO. 28 Kaz Komatsu
Freshness. Noun. (1) The state of being recently made or obtained or not having decayed. (2) The quality of being pleasantly new or different. A word, Kaz Komatsu, the creator...

ARTIST NO. 27 JEREMYVILLE
Was there something in the water in Darlinghurst in the early nineties? Down a lane, Architecture student Jeremy was forging a new kind of self-taught art. He landed an Editorial Illustrator...

ARTIST NO.25 Gemma O'Brien
O is for Single O, O’Brien and ‘Oh wow’, check out this art. And because Gemma's a typography artist, here's a few other letters to help tell her story. FOUR...

ARTIST NO.24 KYLE FREEMAN
We caught up with Surry Hills regular, number cruncher, doodler and latest Art Bag Project artist, Kyle Freeman on all things twenty, mushrooms and art. Here’s how it went down. ...