Mural Mentorship Program Creative Pathways Facilitated by Melbourne Graffiti Artist Lukas Kasper Funded By Brimbank City Council — **Brimbank Mural Mentorship Program**

A community-driven mural mentorship celebrating creativity, learning, and collaboration in Melbourne

“Creative Pathways” Mural Mentorship Program for Young Artists

This six-week Mural Mentorship Program was created to give emerging artists a practical insight into mural art, from the roots of graffiti and street art through to designing and creating a large-scale public artwork.

The program was particularly special to me because Brimbank City Council trusted me to independently develop the program around my own experience as a professional mural artist, workshop facilitator and educator.

Across seven sessions, I created a custom program covering the creative, practical and professional skills I believe are important for anyone looking to explore mural art as a career.

Yan Lin Tay

Monica Quiroga

Introducing this years students

Aimee Marlox

Maxine Tang

Jorlene Lim

Five Artists, Five Perspectives

Practice Put In Place

For this year's mentorship, five emerging artists each developed their own unique artwork in response to Taylors Lakes Linear Park.

Rather than giving everyone the same subject or design brief, I wanted each artist to find something within the environment that connected with them personally and interpret it through their own creative style.

This approach allowed the participants to develop their individual artistic voices while learning how their ideas could eventually work together as part of a larger collaborative mural.

Learning the Skills Behind Mural Art

Throughout the program, the artists explored everything from the history and culture of graffiti and street art through to the practical process of creating artwork at a large scale.

We covered concept development, reference material, composition, scaling artwork, working on walls and the process of taking an idea from an initial sketch through to a finished mural.

The aim was to give the participants more than just painting experience. I wanted them to understand the thinking, planning and problem-solving that goes into creating professional mural artwork.

Mural Art, Young People and the Community

Working with young people and communities has become an important part of my mural practice.

Alongside creating murals for councils, businesses and public spaces, I regularly deliver mural workshops, school art projects, interactive murals and creative programs for young people.

I enjoy creating opportunities where participants aren't simply watching an artist paint, but are actively involved in developing and creating the artwork themselves.

This mentorship was an extension of that approach, with the program allowing me to work more deeply with a smaller group of emerging artists and introduce them to the broader possibilities of mural art as a creative practice and career.

The project was also featured in the local media, highlighting the role that creative programs like this can play in giving young people opportunities to develop their skills, confidence and artistic voice.

A Mural Program Built From My Own Practice

With more than 15 years of experience as a professional mural artist, teaching has become a natural extension of my own mural practice.

I've worked with schools, councils, community groups and young people across a wide range of mural and public art projects, from large collaborative school murals to interactive workshops where hundreds of participants contribute to a finished artwork.

That experience shaped the way I approached this mentorship. I wanted the participants to experience the realities of creating mural art while still having the freedom to experiment and develop their own style.

For me, teaching mural art isn't simply about showing someone how to use a paintbrush. It's about helping people understand how to turn an idea into a practical artwork, work at scale, solve creative problems and have the confidence to put their work into a public space.

From Individual Artwork to One Collective Mural

The final stage of the mentorship was seeing those individual ideas translated onto the wall.

What began as five separate concepts became one large-scale collaborative mural, with each artist contributing their own artwork and perspective to the finished piece. The before-and-after transformation also shows the practical scale of what the artists were able to achieve over the course of the program.

The finished mural represents six weeks of learning, experimentation and creative development. Each section of the artwork has its own identity, while the full mural brings the five artists together through a shared response to the same environment.

For me, this is what makes collaborative mural projects so rewarding. Everyone brings something different to the artwork, but the final result becomes something that none of the participants could have created individually.