The Brown Recycling Skip Art Challenge

Becky McGillivray is muralist from Manchester. Her murals, found in Didsbury, Reddish, Stockport, and Manchester’s Northern Quarter, spread messages from affection to thoughtful talking points. Becky paints impactful typography with vivid colours and bold iconography., drawing inspiration from everyday symbols, and emphasising public art’s accessibility. She is Co-founder of Overspray Collective, who are passionate about making Street Art safer and accessible to women and other marginalised groups. Her clients include Capital & Centric and the University of Manchester.

Nomadic Nubbins loves the joy of playing with paints, being creative and celebrating the joy art brings to his life. He embraces imperfections in his art, which lead to exciting surprises and alternative ideas. His work acts as a contemporary cave painting, capturing moments, life ambitions, and the absurdity of his thoughts. Nubbins aims to spread positivity with his art, hoping to brighten someone’s day, aid worthy causes, or bring joy. His designs celebrate the positives of reusing, recycling, and environmental kindness. Nature illustrations in his work symbolise a healthy, joyous environment, reflecting his passion for allowing nature to thrive.

Victoria Holland is a muralist specialising in window and wall murals. She gained her BA in Fine Art from the Manchester School of Art graduating with a First Class Degree. Her interest in printmaking and collage has greatly influenced her bold, colourful, and fun style. Passionate about transforming ordinary spaces, her work has gone viral on TikTok, gaining wide recognition. She has been commissioned by notable organisations such as the National Trust, Bounceback Food, Creative Crewe Champions, Northwich Festival of Art, Harry Styles’ Home Village Tours, and Xbox DACH.

Chloe Breeze is an illustrator, designer, and mural artist from Stoke-on-Trent. Starting with personalised prints, she expanded to Stoke-on-Trent-themed products and projects, including business commissions, murals, workshops, and live illustrations, all while maintaining her unique and fun style. Her Stoke-on-Trent products champion her beloved area, with many projects featuring a ‘Stokie twist’. Named the Staffordshire Young Business Person of the Year in 2023, Chloe has worked with renowned names such as World of Wedgwood, Dougie Mac, Staffordshire University, and Stoke-on-Trent City Council, as well as Staffordshire Police.

Ailish Beadle is an illustrator based in Bristol. Her bold, colourful style often involves typography, patterns and there’s usually a smiley face hidden somewhere amongst it all! Her work is all based around having fun and bringing joy to people’s day. Ailish likes to jazz things up that wouldn’t usually have colour. For 2024 she is looking to transition from digital outputs to working on more murals.

Justine Brandt is a Coventry based creative. She has recently will graduated from UAL, Central Saint Martins (BA Product and Industrial Design) and will be starting the Art and Design Graduate Diploma at the Royal College of Art this September. She has a fun and playful style, and strongly believes design is not only about the physical outcome but rather about the message and feelings we want to convey or have people experience.

Amalia Gherman is a young emerging artist from North Staffordshire, with a love for all things camp, kitsch and tatty. Often being drawn towards alternative art styles of the past, they hold a love for anything retro and bold which translates through into their own designs. A jack of all trades, you can find Amalia painting, sculpting, building sets or hosting events and workshops across Stoke and the North West, often in a bright pair of dungarees. They have an unrelenting desire to yap for hours on end about art, music and scavenging charity shops to anyone caught nearby.

Rhea Hanlon is an Irish illustrator whose Lost Lines studio was developed through her love for all things nature, outdoor sports and more! Rhea strives to bring joy through a playful approach to design and illustration, with positive messages and fun drawings. Rhea’s work is recognisable through bold line work, strong use of colour & quirky characters… often featuring a Sasquatch or two!

Tom Edwards is an illustrator and artist from Stoke on Trent. A talented typographer and screen printer, he creates amazingly detailed illustrations. His work ranges from intricate hyper detailed line illustrations, through to bold geometric and graphic forms. Tom is best known for his large-scale mural work which is becoming recognisable across North Staffordshire and beyond.

Amy Cummings is an artist from Cardiff, currently based in Sheffield. Her main body of work consists of abstract illustration featuring geometric patterns and bright colours. She also creates tonal landscape and seascape drawings, which she has recently been combining with more urban environmental settings. She finds the artistic process very therapeutic and although her abstract work primarily explores colours and pattern, it also seeks to communicate themes that are important to her, such as mental health. Through her work she aims to spark joy through the use of vibrant colours.

Ethan Lemon is a British painter whose work focuses on portraiture. His signature style emerged from the fast nature of using spray paint, which he was exposed to as a young adult partaking in graffiti culture. Ethan’s main practice is still on the street, where he spray paints large murals of personal acquaintances as well as historical figures from his home town Stoke on Trent and people from Manchester, where he now resides and works. Ethan employs a signature colour palette of monochromatic greens which can be recognised instantly in the busy streets of any city. Beyond the street Ethan also has a studio practice where he merges portraiture with other elements such as landscape and still life as well as experimenting with various mediums. He has exhibited and won prizes in various group exhibitions in England. He has also painted murals in numerous cities around the UK such as Glasgow, Bristol and Plymouth and internationally in Toronto and Melbourne.