After nine years, the Australian Body Art Festival returns to Eumundi in Queensland’s Gold Coast region for a weekend-long event centred around body painting in its many and varied forms, using airbrush, brush, sponge, and special effects, at Eumundi Amphitheatre on 20 and 21 April 2024. Watch living canvases transform into walking, talking works of art in line with this year’s theme: ‘Time Travel’. There are competitions with cash prizes in full body painting, face painting and special effects, as well as wearable art where previous winners creatively used discarded materials such as bottle caps, spoons, videotapes, CDs, or plastic…
A weekend of body art | 20 and 21 April 2024
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