> Bio/CV

Satta van Daal

Satta studied Product Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar (GER) and the Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), but has also gained professional experiences in graphic design, animation film making, teaching, exhibition & event management and production amongst many other things. Since his University degree and move to Melbourne in early 2003 Satta's artistic weapon of choice became the spray can and his hand designed and hand cut stencils, which he uses on his mission for ‘Urban Beautification' and to create a diverse range of paintings and commissioned works.

His first stencil - a clutched fist holding barbed wire - can still be seen around Fitzroy and other places in Melbourne. Many more designs have followed since then. Satta's art has been exhibited in a number of solo and group exhibitions in Australia, Europe, Iran and America. His works appeared in various local, national and international publications.

In 2004 JD Mittmann and Satta organised the first Melbourne Stencil Festival. The annually held festival included international street art exhibitions, live painting demonstrations, workshops, charity auctions, panel discussions, film nights and lots more and has become an established art event on Melbourne's festival calendar. It has also toured to Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and several regional centres in the past years.

Since 2007 Satta focuses more on creating his own art again instead of being involved too much with the art management and event organising side of the business. In 2009 he also launched SattaStudio, his own graphic and product design business which surely will cross over into his stencil art practice more than just occasionally.

Brief CV

> Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions · · Exhibitions · · Commissions

> Media

A selection of media appearances in the past few years:

BOOKS

Featured Art: 

		New Internationalist Year Planner 2009 Simon Loffler & New Internationalist 2009, New Internationalist Publications				Street Art and the War on Terror How the world's best graffiti artist said NO to the Iraq war Eleanor Mathieson/Xavier A. Tàpies 2008, Rebelion Books
		Uncommissioned Art An A-Z of Australian Graffiti Christine Dew, 2007 The Miegunyah Press				Street Art Uncut Matthew Lunn 2006, Thames and Hudson
		Stencil Graffiti Capital: Melbourne Jake Smallman & Carl Nyman 2005, Mark Batty Publisher >> stencilgraffiticapital.com				Conform Saskia Folk 2004, MacMillan Publishers

MAGAZINES

Interviews and features (selection):

IdN vol.14 no.6 (Singapore, international), January 2008

Rolling Stone Magazine (Australia/NZ), August 2006

NEWSPAPERS

Interviews and features (selection):

Letting it all hang up
The Age/A2, 21 Feb 2009
>> LINK

Street art trash or treasure
The Herald Sun, 16 May 2007
>> LINK

Art, not crime
The Age/Metro section, 17 May 2006
>> LINK

Un artiste allemand se distingue
L'Eveil Normande (FRA), 21 July 2004
 

DOCUMENTARIES, TV, FILM

MacHEADS
a fanboy documentary by Kobi & Ron Shely
2009. >> LINK
[featured art]

To Melbourne, With Love
short film by Shona Devlin, Julia Cornes & Greg Malkiewicz
2006, 15/15 Film Festival finalist
[featured artist, interview]
 

RADIO

The Deep End, Radio National
May 06, Deep End Story about the Melbourne Stencil Festival
>> LINK

Neil Mitchel Morning Show, 3AW
Aug 07, on graffiti artist gettting jail term
Feb 06, feature about the graffiti clean up prior to the Empire Games

More interviews on triple J, triple R, ABC Radio, 3CR and others.

WEB

Stencil Festival Podcast
from the Opening Night of the Melbourne Stencil Festival 06
>> LINK

RetroMacCast
May 07, a Mac podcast asked some questiones about the painted Apple computers
>> LINK

... plus several articles on the web and plenty of blogs.