This is Easty. She wasn’t always Easty though - her parents called her Ella when she was born and still do, most of the time.

Easty is an alter-ego. It’s freedom. It’s entertaining the grubby, and particular. It’s being allowed to be both inelegant and freakish and a pest and a menace, at the same time as being poignant, loving, emotional, and sometimes, really sad. It’s flexing the strange parts of the brain and holding the unusual thoughts to face the sun. It’s somehow making room for two very distinct personalities to co-exist in happy matrimony. It’s shaking off the should-nots and diving into deep water.

This is the result. This art. This whole new space to exist in.

It’s all just one big contradiction of young fever and old wisdom.

Easty has collaborated with The Critical Slide Society, Hockey Dad, Impala Skate, Didi Australia, Gage Roads, Beach Road Hotel Bondi, Sunburnt Mess, Australian Marine Conservation Society, GoodFish, Always Sunday & Wine Wave. She’s created album and EP covers for The Good Love, Jadu Jadu & Tambala, Terry Datsun & more.

Easty’s recognisable style emerged from heartbreak, when she was drunk as a skunk in her bedroom. It came from a “fuck everyone” moment, where she decided to throw away expectations and draw exactly what she wanted. Since, her artwork has been compared to artistic styles like the Japanese Edo period, artists like Ed Hardy, & Reg Mombasa. She has been inspired by artists like Francis Bacon, Hieronymus Bosch, Hilma AF Klimt and more. Her red symbols, added at the end of an artwork, are called ‘Brain Litter’ and are a cathartic way to allow herself to finish off by drawing exactly what her hand wants. The red circle is the surf god, “Huey” which she adds to hopefully bring good luck for her next surf.