About the artist

Drasko Boljevic (AKA Drasko17) is a Melbourne-based urban artist with a rich and diverse multidisciplinary practice. Over the past three decades, he has worked across a wide range of mediums—including sculpture, painting, installation, and 3-D stencil art—blending classical training with contemporary innovation to create works that are both technically refined and conceptually bold. A Victorian College of the Arts graduate (Bachelor or Fine Art, 1998 & Master of Contemporary Art-Painting, 2012), he started his studies training as a sculptor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Zagreb (former Yugoslavia). His background bridges traditional European art foundations with the dynamic energy of Melbourne’s contemporary art scene. 'Drasko is famed for his 3D optical-illusion stencils in the laneways, which suggest portals into 'possible worlds' inhabited by a playful mix of technology and figures that seem to be randomly teleported from different video games. The resulting images appear on the urban landscape like mirages, disrupting an otherwise ordinary scene.' (Tristan Manco, The Stencil Graffiti Handbook)

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