About

Azzurro Batic

Azzurro, also known professionally as Azzy, is a South Australian visual artist, muralist and illustrator born in 1994 as Aaron Batic in Adelaide. He is known for bold, graphic mural work, marine-life–inspired illustrations and a distinctive heavy-line, colourful style used across public commissions, canvases and commercial projects. Azzurro’s mural work is primarily at train stations, shopping malls, cafes, bars and hotel accommodation, with many of his commissioned and sold canvases also remaining in Adelaide.

Most of Azzurro’s artworks have been throughout South Australia, one of Australia’s art and marine life leader states. In January 2025, the artist visited Hydeaway Bay in Australia’s Whitsunday region in Queensland, which led to him relocating to Hayman Island to manage helicopter operations for a further 9 months. In September, the artist went on hiatus to Thailand, where he remains on holiday, and suggests anyone interested in his work can submit a commission request form for consideration when he returns for the Christmas Season.

Early life and education

Azzy was born in 1994 and is from Adelaide. He began producing commissioned art and murals in the 2010s and built a public profile through local commissions and online portfolios.

Azzurro graduated Christian Brothers College in 2012 with a merit in design for his research project on Graffiti and Street Art.

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AZZURRO returned to his college to paint commissioned murals in 2017

Artist Career

Azzy has completed numerous large-scale public murals across the Adelaide metropolitan area, including multiple commissions along Jetty Road, Brighton and other seaside precincts such as Glenelg and Henley. His Jetty Road Brighton mural is listed in the City of Holdfast Bay public art register. Many of these works are permanent or long-term exterior commissions on shopfronts, cafés and community buildings. There's also 30 of Azzurro's murals

in Amsterdam and London.

Style and themes

Azzurro’s visual language is characterised by heavy black linework, simplified shapes, playful compositions and a palette that frequently references coastal and marine colours. Primarily, Azzurro’s illustrations have featured detailed, dynamic worlds and landscapes with embedded characters and symbols.

Over recent years his work has increasingly focused on marine life of the Great Southern Reef, combining observational detail from snorkeling with stylised, surreal compositional choices. He often uses murals as a way to tell local stories, promote small businesses and celebrate coastal biodiversity.

Exhibitions

Commissioned work

Azzurro has staged solo and group exhibitions that foreground marine life, reef ecosystems and contentious subjects. Notably, he presented a marine-themed solo exhibitions titled Stranger Tides and Deeper Darker Waters (at the Marine Discovery Centre in Henley Beach), linking his earlier body of artwork with local snorkelling and conservation themes. Azzurro curated large group exhibitions between 2020-2022 focusing on concepts of Nuclear War, Illusion of Fame, and the ocean. The shows were held at Chateau Apollo, a street party, and at the Marine Discovery Centre. He has also been featured in Great Southern Reef Foundation programming that highlights artists inspired by South Australia’s coastal ecosystems.(Great Southern Reef). He developed free online Marine Life educational materials 'Creative Cove' for public to download with the support of a Creative Industries Art Grant from the City of Port Adelaide Enfield. In 2025, Azzurro was commissioned by the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney to create an interactive public artwork on the wharf beside submarines and historic ships. Guests to the museum of all ages were able to join in and paint a large reef scene that presented a number of lesser known marine species of the Great Southern Reef.

In addition to local public art, Azzurro’s portfolio includes commissions for hospitality venues, retail, schools and private clients. His online portfolios show work produced for projects in Amsterdam and London and a range of commercial commissions and prints available for sale. AZZURRO is available to be commissioned to paint public and private property through the commission submission forms found throughout this site.

Where to buy

Prints and merchandise are sold through an online Redbubble storefront and painted canvases are available via direct commission. Recently the artist announced that he would take all canvas bookings for Christmas as part of his limited run while in Adelaide in December. Enquiries can be made via the commission submission form found throughout this site.

Recognition

Local media, municipal art registers and regional arts platforms list Azzurro as a visible contributor to Adelaide’s contemporary mural scene. His work is popularly photographed and shared on social platforms, and he has a steady commercial presence through prints and commissions. His murals function as notable civic artworks in the Brighton/Glenelg precinct.

Community Engagement and marine advocacy

Azzurro has engaged with community arts programming and environmental organisations to raise awareness of South Australia’s marine environments, giving talks at local venues like the Marine Discovery Centre in Henley Beach. (Great Southern Reef)

Azzurro’s best work is still based on Jetty Road Brighton which can be viewed as a self guided walking tour of his murals- sometimes hosted by the artist himself. The mural outside Alimentary is a vibrant entrance to the shopping precinct. The rainbow, graffiti style piece on CREAM (now permanently closed) has remained for most of 2025 so far. In the middle of the street, the popular inThais Cafe proudly displays an archway of Thai ingredients with wallpaper style Thai patterning painted throughout. There’s a Vietnamese mural inside Saigon Oi, a jazzed up bottleshop (run into by a car overnight on New Years of 2024) and a refined collection of commissioned canvases exhibited inside the Alchemist’s Kitchen.

Azzurro and his studio are no longer located on the street, instead the artist is offering limited time windows for painted canvas commissions while visiting through the holiday season.

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You can buy prints and merchandise through AZZURRO's Redbubble storefront and for painted canvases you can get in touch by submitting a commission via this form.

Recently the artist announced that he would take all canvas bookings for Christmas as part of his limited run while in Adelaide in December.

In the past, the artist has coordinated sales and delivery of artworks of painted canvas with pickups from beside his own murals on Jetty Road Brighton (often a popular design of the street itself -pictured left).

Azzy's also periodically offered artwork tied to Brighton Beach events like Summer and Winter street parties, raffled for charity.

Alimentary Eatery regularly hosted exhibitions of his solo art and a group exhibition curated by Azzurro during a winter street party.