About GOYA TORRES

Goya Torres is a visual/street-artist and muralist based in Newcastle NSW area, originally born in Mexico. Her practice moves towards blurring the separation line between fine arts, street-art and illustration to develop a visual contemporary language that encapsulates reality nowadays. Her expression travels through painting, public art, mural work and printmaking.

Goya draws inspiration from her heritage as well as nature, street-art and pop surrealism. She uses a mix of traditional media such as oils, acrylics, spray-paint and printmaking techniques depending on the format: wall, canvas, paper and wood. She has also painted fiberglass sculptures for public art trails and murals for various projects nationally and internationally.

She 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, USA, Denmark and Mexico. She has been sponsored by aerosol brands NBQ, Molotow and Rodin. Goya counts with over 30 murals under her belt and counting, from one square meter to 25 meters long and up to 8 meters high, as well as public art projects painting life-size animal sculptures. She has painted murals for Lane Cove Council, Taronga Zoo Sydney (Wild! Rhino project, sponsored by Hotel Steyne), the Hurley Australian Open of Surfing (St George Bank Surf Wall), Warringah/Northern Beaches Council, Port Macquarie Hastings Council (Hello Koalas project, sponsored by ABC Mid North Coast and Discover Magazine), ArtNotApart Festival in Canberra, Bondi Street-Art Wall in Bondi Beach, Vinnies, City of Bankstown Council, Lake Macquarie Council and Big Picture Festival Newcastle, among others.

Her mural work got recognition as being part of the “Mural Art Development: Mexico, Japan, Australia" talk at the Saitama Museum of Modern Art in Japan (2017). She won the Hung Up Art Prize at the Street-Art Festival exhibition at Surface Gallery in Nottingham UK (2017) and was finalist at the Northern Beaches Art Prize (2020). She also received 'LakeMac Artist and Creator Award' by the Lake Macquarie Council (2022). Goya currently divides her time in between painting artwork at her studio, doing murals, live-painting for events and workshops.

COLLABORATIONS INCLUDE:

• City of Bankstown Council (NSW, Australia)

• Lake Macquarie Council (NSW, Australia)

• Big Picture Festival Newcastle edition 2022 (NSW, Australia)

• Vinnies (NSW, Australia)

• FEVER events (NSW, Australia)

• Little Festival by The Wall Station (NSW, Australia)

• Lane Cove Council (NSW, Australia)

• NSW Health, Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (NSW, Australia)

• Port Macquarie Hastings Council (NSW, Australia)

• Warringah/Northern Beaches Council (NSW, Australia)

• Waverley Council (NSW, Australia)

• Taronga Zoo Sydney (NSW, Australia)

• Government of Mexico City Council (Mexico)

• Hurley Australian Open of Surfing (NSW, Australia)

• StayFly Female Artists Group (NSW, Australia)

• Duke's Day Festival (NSW, Australia)

• Alacran Tequila Australia (NSW, Australia)

• UNICEF (Mexico)

• Algarabia Magazine (Mexico)

• MOLOTOW and Rodin (paint sponsors 2017)

• NBQ (paint sponsor 2017, 2018)

• Manly Guide Magazine (NSW, Australia)