Visual Art – Sydney

"Blending her Mexican heritage with elements of street-art and the fine arts, Goya Torres is one of the most exciting artists currently working out of Australia." - The8Percent.com (2016) Goya Torres is a visual/street-artist and muralist originally born in Mexico. Her practice moves towards blurring the separation line between fine arts, street-art and illustration in order to develop a visual contemporary language that encapsulates reality nowadays. Goya Torres has been involved in group exhibitions, live-painting events, street-art festivals, mural and public art projects in Australia, Mexico, Latino-america, USA, United Kingdom and Europe. Some of her artwork is now part of private collections in Sydney, Melbourne and Mexico. In the past, she participated in the Wild! Rhino project organized by Taronga Zoo where she painted a life size rhino sculpture in order to raise awareness about the rhino extinction which was exhibited in Manly Corso and then auctioned for $10,000 AUS with all earnings going towards saving the rhino from extinction in Africa. Latest projects this year include her participation in the Street-Art Festivals: Meeting of Styles in Pristina Kosovo, Gran Canaria Spain and Budapest, Hungary; and the first Beeston Street-Art Festival in Nottinghamshire UK. Also she recently painted a mural and judge for the yearly Street-Art Festival Exhibition at Surface Gallery in Nottingham and another one at the Printing Walls Street-Art Festival in Torrefarrera Cataluna Spain.