Ready to return.
BSAF is on hold. There is no date for the next edition. An experienced team is ready to deliver the festival again with the right support.
To back the festival, talk to Lincoln Savage, Festival Director: hello@bsafest.com.au
Ten editions, 2016 to 2025 · Meanjin / Brisbane
Where things stand
The Brisbane Street Art Festival ran every year from 2016 to 2025. No festival ran in 2026, and no date has been set for the next one.
In March 2026 we announced that the festival would not run that year and that we would aim to return in 2027. The 2027 target no longer stands. Without confirmed funding, we are not working to a date.
The murals are free to see, so the festival runs on partner investment. With the right support in place, BSAF can return.
The team that delivered ten editions is ready to do it again. A date will be announced once the support is confirmed.
A pause in the programme. A permanent mark on the city.
What a partner gets
Murals that last
Large-scale murals by Australian and international artists, on your walls and in your precinct. They stay after the festival ends, often for years.
A public program
Exhibitions, workshops, talks and events that bring people to the place. Within These Walls, the festival’s annual group show, has presented up to 70 artists in a year.
A lasting record
Every mural credited, mapped and photographed in a public archive that people use to find the work.
Reach, with its sources
Audience and media figures reported with where each number comes from, so they stand up in a grant report or a board paper.
In 2021, research firm IER evaluated the festival for Tourism and Events Queensland. The evaluation reported 1,094,004 public mural viewings in the 16 days of the festival. Murals stay up long after a festival ends, so people keep seeing them.
The full record →Source: IER event evaluation for Tourism and Events Queensland, 2021. Viewing and attendance figures are based on estimates the festival supplied to IER. A viewing is not a unique person. The survey results are IER’s analysis of responses from festival attendees.
One wall, a precinct or a whole edition
Principal partner
Back a full edition. For government, tourism bodies and brands that want a city-wide program with their name beside it.
Precinct partner
A set of walls and a festival hub in one place. Northshore Brisbane, Howard Smith Wharves and the Brisbane Showgrounds have all hosted BSAF this way.
Program partner
Back one strand of the program: First Nations artists, workshops, an exhibition such as Within These Walls, or international exchange.
Wall owner
Offer a wall. For property owners, councils and campuses with a surface worth painting.
Investment levels are a conversation. Tell us what you want to achieve and we will scope it with you. Start a conversation →
A city about to be seen by the world
Brisbane hosts the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2032. With the right support, BSAF can deliver a high-profile festival in the years before then: world-class public art that shows Brisbane and its artists at their best.
BSAF is independent. It is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games or their organisers, and backing BSAF gives a partner no association with the Games.
- The Brisbane Athlete Village is planned for the Brisbane Showgrounds in Bowen Hills. From 2021 to 2024, BSAF artists painted 31 murals along the Showgrounds’ walls.
- 176 of the festival’s 320 documented murals are in Bowen Hills, Fortitude Valley and the CBD: the inner city, close to the Village and to the new stadium planned for Victoria Park.
- BSAF has been part of a Games arts program before. In 2018, nine of its artists made temporary works on the QPAC Cultural Forecourt as part of Festival 2018, the arts and cultural program of the Gold Coast Commonwealth Games.
- Queensland’s arts strategy to 2035, Time to Shine, includes actions to identify opportunities to work with funded arts festivals that could deliver statewide cultural programming to support Brisbane 2032, and to embed arts, including public art, in the Queensland Government’s 2032 infrastructure delivery.
Questions about a return
Is the Brisbane Street Art Festival still running?
BSAF is on hold. Its tenth and most recent edition ran from 10 to 18 May 2025. No festival ran in 2026, and there is no date for the next edition.
When will the Brisbane Street Art Festival return?
No date has been set. In March 2026 we announced that the festival would not run that year and that we would aim to return in 2027. The 2027 target no longer stands. Without confirmed funding, we are not working to a date. The festival returns when partner investment is confirmed, and any date will be announced here first.
What does it take to bring BSAF back?
Support. The murals are free to see, so the festival has little ticket income and runs on partner investment from government, precincts, property owners and brands. With that in place, it can return.
What does it cost to back the festival?
It depends on the scale: one wall, a precinct or a full edition. Investment levels are a conversation, so tell us what you want to achieve and we will scope it with you.
Who runs the Brisbane Street Art Festival?
Lincoln Savage is the festival director, and BSAF is produced by Vast Yonder, a Brisbane creative production company. The festival was founded in 2016 by Lincoln Savage and David Don.
Is BSAF part of the Brisbane 2032 Olympic and Paralympic Games?
No. BSAF is independent and has no affiliation with the Games or their organisers. It is a festival that can deliver public art for Brisbane in the years before 2032.
Can I still see the murals?
Many of them, yes. The murals are on public walls and free to see, and the map shows where each one was painted. Some have since been painted over or demolished.
Start a conversation.
Tell us who you are and what you have in mind: a full edition, a precinct, a program strand or a wall. We will come back to you with what is possible.