Kyle Hughes-Odgers is one of Australia’s leading young visual artists and an award-winning illustrator. Hughes-Odgers’ distinctive illustrative style is rooted in his desire to tell stories – “I continue to focus on ideas of life, death and survival shown through my interest in narrative, texture, folklore and handmade objects. I’m fascinated by patterns, pattern-making and repetitive visual sequences that I see in architecture, nature or anywhere really.” The narratives his spindly-limbed characters tell are universal tales of struggle, burden, the difficult choices they face and the dreams that somehow still burn within them. The back stories reflect both the struggle of our own daily lives and the hope that can be found even in the darkest corners. Hughes-Odgers has executed a number of major public art commissions, including an 80m mural at Perth International Airport (including LED lighting design), a 4 storey mural for Nst Mural Project in Washington DC & a 40m stainless steel perforated screen with created in collaboration with DMG Architects. In 2013 Kyle and Meg Mckinlay (author) won the prestigious Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators Crystal Kite Award for Ten Tiny Things, their first illustrated children’s book. Since then Hughes-Odgers has illustrated and published three further books. His work has been featured in various publications such as Street Art New York, Street Art Melbourne, Kingbrown Magazine and widely online through artist features, films and interviews. For over a decade he has exhibited and created artwork throughout Australia and internationally, including New York, Washington DC, Los Angeles, London, Berlin, Paris, Amsterdam, Hong Kong, Singapore and Cambodia, in addition to featuring in numerous private and public collections.