Brock Willis, Danish Quapoor, Yamile Tafur Rios, JAZZ MATTHEWS | WILAY DESIGNS, PAUL SUMMERFIELD
5 November – 6 December 2026
Location | Various Locations
Opening Hours | Daily | 24hrs
Entry | Free
Signs of Dissent | Graphic Interventions brings site responsive artworks into Canberra’s urban landscape, exploring the Festival theme of Dissent through colour, imagery and visual storytelling. Featuring works by Brock Willis, Danish Quapoor, Jazz Matthews of Wilay Designs, Paul Summerfield and Yamile Tafur Rios, the project invites audiences to look at familiar surroundings differently and consider how public spaces shape our sense of place and belonging.
Drawing on cultural identity, personal histories and the environments around us, the artists offer distinct perspectives on the places we share. Yamile Tafur Rios’ Around the Same Pot as Dissent brings Latin American motifs and narratives into public view, celebrating cultural identity and the memories, traditions and connections that travel with us.
Brock Willis’ Uncontained brings the Brindabella Ranges back into view across the façade of the former Commonwealth Bank Building, using the building’s geometric language to frame the landscape beyond. In Externalised Skies, Danish Quapoor playfully interrupts the built and natural environments with a stylised skyscape. Ambiguous cloud forms invite imaginative interpretation, while their absence reveals fragments of the world beyond.
Jazz Matthews’ Animals On Country: Platypus honours the platypus and its place within Country, drawing attention to the importance of healthy waterways and caring for the animals that call them home. Paul Summerfield’s Hidden Paradise opens onto a fantastical, glowing landscape of vivid colour, tangled forms and intricate detail, inviting audiences to explore an imaginative world.
Together, these works bring cultural stories, natural environments and unexpected imagery into everyday spaces. Signs of Dissent invites audiences to pause, look again and discover new perspectives within Canberra’s shared urban landscape.
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Brock Willis is a Canberra based graphic designer specialising in brand identity, spatial design and visual communication. He holds a Bachelor of Communication Design from RMIT University and further developed his practice through a scholarship at the Danish School of Media and Journalism in Copenhagen.
Currently working within the cultural sector at the National Museum of Australia, Willis focuses on exhibition identity and visitor engagement, creating accessible and immersive visual experiences for public audiences. With experience across global advertising agencies and creative studios, he brings together strategic thinking, contemporary design and a strong understanding of how visual systems shape experiences of place and community.
Brock’s work has been recognised international, including Gold and Silver Cannes Lions and D&AD Wood Pencils, as well as the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Graduate Strategy Award.
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Danish Quapoor is a multidisciplinary artist based in Gurambilbarra/Townsville, Queensland. Working across textiles, drawing, ceramics and illustrative painting, his practice explores intersectional identity and socio political systems of power through repetitive, labour intensive processes. His diverse body of work is unified by sparse, stylised forms, subdued colour palettes and a visual language that balances humour, critique and material exploration.
Danish has exhibited extensively across Australia, including as a finalist in the Queensland Regional Art Awards. He was awarded the 2024 Percival Photographic Portrait Prize presented by Townsville City Galleries and was the inaugural 2023 School of Creative Arts Alumni Fellow at the University of Southern Queensland.
He holds a Master of Arts and Cultural Management from the University of Melbourne and a Bachelor of Visual Arts and Bachelor of Creative Arts with Honours from the University of Southern Queensland. His work is held in public and private collections nationally and internationally.
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Yamile Tafur Rios is a Colombian visual artist and educator based on Ngunnawal Country, Canberra. Working across painting, public art and community based practice, Yamile explores identity, connection and cultural exchange through collaborative and socially engaged creative processes.
Yamile completed a Bachelor of Visual Arts in Colombia in 2012 and has presented solo and group exhibitions since 2013. Since 2022, she has expanded her practice into public art, creating murals across the ACT that celebrate community, diversity and shared experiences. She also leads the Multicultural Women's Group: Chat and Make Art, supported by Tuggeranong Arts Centre, providing a space for creativity, connection and cultural exchange.
Her practice has been supported by the Colombian Ministry of Culture and artsACT, and she has been commissioned by the ACT Government to create public murals.
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Jazz Matthews is a proud Ngunawal woman, artist and co-owner of Wilay Designs. Her practice draws on culture, family stories, lived experience and a deep connection to Country. Working across digital art, murals, canvas painting, weaving and public art, Jazz shares culture, fosters understanding and creates opportunities for meaningful, respectful connections.
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Paul Summerfield is a Canberra-based digital visual artist who creates intricate, vibrant and detailed works using digital tools. Working across prints on paper, large-scale murals and commercial art projects, his practice explores fantastical, moody and optimistic visions of the future. Drawing on solarpunk, his work imagines botanical vistas and futuristic landscapes where ecosystems, animals and human cultures coexist in harmony.
His work is available to purchase as limited-edition prints.
Explore his work at Art by Paul Summerfield
Proudly supported by Act Government and City of Design funding. With support from Kwik Kopy Canberra, Canberra Theatre Centre and Canberra Centre.
Images | Craft + Design Canberra Festival Graphic Interventions | Photography by 5 Foot Photography