About The Artist

A flair for drawing on school desks in conjunction with learning difficulties from a young age naturally led a path towards visual arts. Since failing art (and high school) in 1994, Sauce has dedicated more than three decades painting murals and his public art can been seen all over Australia.

His professional experience as a full time self employed mural artist since 2001 has grown from an extensive background in community mural projects often facilitating youth arts programmes including recidivist offenders in the justice system. During his early career he pioneered many arts based projects supported by community organisations such as Girl Guides Queensland, PCYC’s, Anglicare, CWA’s, RSL’s, QRFS, QAS, CANTEEN and Cerebral Palsy League.

A focus towards education and the arts is further evident given projects completed with over 100 schools and P&C committees in the public and private education system, TAFE and alternative learning providers. From murals that enable a vibrant learning environment or encourage healthy eating to murals that celebrate unique school characteristics such as history, culture and community.

Producing bespoke artwork and hand painted signs to cater for a of wide variety of applications sees The Sauce Studio’s commercial work include commissions with Tourism Queensland, Airports Queensland, Birch Carroll & Coyle Cinemas, HHH Architects, Sandstone Point Hotel, Dreamworld, Tadpoles Early Learning Centres, Dominos Pizza, Grit Scooters, Portside Brisbane, Charleys Creek Brewing Company, RACQ Life Flight, The Distributors, Redland Museum and the Australian Age of Dinosaurs Museum.

Sauce’s pro active approach to visual arts has gained recognition as a winner of competitions such as Sheffield International Mural Fest (Tasmania) and King Of Canvas (South Australia) also being a finalist for Jamestown Mural Fest (South Australia), The Border Art Prize (Tweed Regional Gallery) The Caldera Art Prize, Blackall Heartland Festival and the Redland Art Awards. In 2012 he held a joint exhibition Outside Inn with Kosie 1 at Jugglers (Fortitude Valley) and during 2013-15 he operated his own art studio with a retail showcase open to the public in the Murwillumbah CDB. The Sauce Studio hosted exhibitions Stains of Modernity in 2013, Three Sixty Five and Five Letters in 2014. Sauce has since curated several solo exhibitions such as Convergence 2016 (Grasslands Gallery Tambo) and The Dark Ages 2017 (Mundubbera Regional Art Gallery) and Full Circle 2022 (The Globe Barcaldine).