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AB4009 – Sydney
February 27 @ 6:30 pm AEDT
Art Battle Sydney – 27 February, 2026
Doors @ 6:30pm / Painting @ 7:30pm
Standard @ Kinselas (Top Floor) – 383 Bourke Street, Darlinghurst, NSW
The top floor of Kinselas comes alive again—AB Sydney is bringing the paint, the passion, and the party!
Come watch the paint fly before your eyes and help vote to determine the Winner as artists battle the clock & each other in 3 fast-paced rounds.
All artwork will also be available for auction during this incredible night of community and creation!
Accessibility notice: The venue can only be reached via stairs and is not suitable for wheelchair access.
Winner Prize is $250, $200 Art Supplies Gift Voucher for Eckersley’s and entry into our Grand Final!
Be a part of the fun as a spectator, or participate as one of the featured artists by applying online at artbattle.com/artists!
Art Battle Sydney is an 18+ event.
REGISTER NOW TO VOTE
ARTISTS
Artists can apply to compete. Also, most events have a ‘Wildcard’ easel, where artists leave their names at the door and we draw at random to pick the Wildcard Artist. To be a potential wildcard artist, just buy a ticket and show up!
Confirmed Competitors
Art Battle Sydney
12 confirmed artists
Darcey Gwynn-Jones
Darcey loves to paint and is all about art—her passion drives everything she creates! She’s exhibited locally twice, curated once, and is set for an artist residency in France in May 2026.
Eleonora Tonnarelli
Eleanora is an Italian artist based in Sydney making bold, expressive oil portraits that get straight to the raw stuff. She’s all about ditching the masks and feeling things fully. Working spontaneously with silicone spatulas, she pushes paint around the canvas to capture real emotion and energy. Her work’s basically a reminder to stop suppressing, start expressing, and lean into who you actually are.
Harley Stevenson
Harley’s a Northern Beaches–based artist who started out in street and graffiti, and evolved into murals, illustration, and commission work. From massive spray-painted walls to smaller oil paintings on canvas, he’s all about versatility. He loves street art and portraiture—whether it’s bold, punchy color or detailed skin tones. Always learning, always experimenting, always pushing his art further.
Ivy Foxall
Ivy is a Wollongong-based artist who grew up in Bathurst and has recently stepped into the world of painting—absolutely loving it so far. Her style is bright, colorful, and full of personality, often featuring text and intricate patterns. She also paints on tote bags from time to time. This will be her very first Art Battle competition, and she’s excited to jump in and share her work.
Juanita Rudman
Juanita Rudman is a Sydney-based artist known for her vibrant, bold semi-abstract paintings that radiate joy and positivity. Returning to painting during a deeply personal time, she found inspiration in her father’s incredible garden, a sanctuary during his chemo treatments and a powerful source of creative energy. Juanita’s work explores the beauty of nature, with recurring themes of rainbows and flowers bursting with color and life. She views rainbows as symbols of hope and happiness, inspiring her to use all the colors on the palette.
Lana hayward
📍 North bindi, NSW, AU
Lana is an emerging artist and illustrator based in Darlinghurst, building and figuring out her creative groove as she goes. She makes abstract monsters straight from her head—imaginative, a little chaotic, and full of personality. She jumped into Art Battle just to see if she likes it (and maybe compete again down the track). She’s also gearing up for her first Sydney solo show at Halls Lane in Woollahra/Paddington, which is a pretty exciting next step.
Laura Reis
Laura Reis, 25, has been painting at Art Battle since she was 17. Her work focuses on black-and-white figurative urban portraits, especially of women, capturing strength, emotion, and personal expression. Exploring multiple surfaces — from paper to murals, Laura channels her passion for art into every piece, celebrating the raw power and experience it brings.
Lucas Hernandez
Lucas is a self-taught artist from Sydney, born and raised. His work jumps across themes—from cute and fluffy to morbid and goofy—because he likes keeping things interesting. He paints mainly with acrylics these days, but drawing was his first love and still shapes how he creates. For now, though, he’s all in on painting and seeing where it takes him.
Mauricio Casas
Mauricio’s been drawing for as long as he can remember—it’s basically second nature. Painting came later, but doodling? That’s just who he is. Give him a pen and he’s off. Drawing’s how he connects with his three-year-old son, flirts, jokes, shares opinions, and makes sense of the world. He’s always starting new portraits and caricatures (hence the unfinished pile) but give him a deadline and he’ll bring it home. For him, art’s just a natural way to admire, exaggerate, question, and love everything around him.
Michelle Miralles
Michelle is originally from Southern California and now calls Sydney home. She mainly works in oil paint, but also loves experimenting with oil pastel, acrylic, colored pencil and more. Her subjects range from still life and portraits to landscapes, florals and nature-inspired abstracts. Inspired by both nature and people, she’s focused on developing her artistic voice and exploring new ways to paint. She’s excited to connect with the Sydney art community through Art Battle and paint alongside other artists.
Sage Belshaw
Sage is a 21-year-old multi-media artist based in Sydney. She’s on a mission to make art that connects viewers with their inner worlds. With a diploma in ceramics and a Cert III in design fundamentals, her work spans realistic figurative sculptures, abstract paintings, and functional ceramic pieces. She’s been featured in three exhibitions, showing off a range of styles and mediums that mix creativity with purpose.
Samson Mcrorie
Samson is a Sydney-based artist who’s been creating for about four years. His work explores identity through the lens of being queer and mixed-race, using bold colors, swirling forms, and expressive energy to reflect the complexity of the self—layered, ever-changing, sometimes chaotic, sometimes pure. He works spontaneously, letting color, texture, and movement emerge naturally, capturing both the tension and joy of navigating one’s inner world.
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