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about the artist
Azzurro Batic
Azzurro, also known as Azzy, is a South Australian public artist, muralist and illustrator born in Adelaide, 1994. 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. Azzurro has also painted in Amsterdam, London, Adelaide, Whitsundays and Sydney.
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 and Hamilton Island.
He has flown in many helicopter trips over the Gold Coast, Whitsundays and Great Barrier Reef, strengthening his art specialty of creating intricate, aerial-view illustrations around place, and studying marine life of the world's biggest coral reef.
Anyone interested in his work can submit a commission request form for consideration. If you know a blank wall, and want Azzurro to check it out, please use the Submit a Wall form.
AZZURRO responds to government, council, and corporate RFQs and EOI tenders nationally across Australia.
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"Running His Own Race:
The Vivid Public Worlds
of Azzy Batic" by Glenda Brown
early life
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 state 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
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. Most recently, AZZURRO painted with the public in Darling Harbour, Sydney.
style
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. The breadth of Azzurro's work focuses on drawing a person closer to place through using public art or multiple public artworks as creative placemaking.
He often uses murals as a way to tell local stories, promote small businesses and celebrate coastal biodiversity.
commissions
exhibitions
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.
shop azzurro
Prints and merchandise are sold exclusively through Redbubble
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
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 broadest work is a street gallery of murals on Jetty Road Brighton in South Australia, which can be viewed as a self guided walking tour of his murals- sometimes hosted by the artist himself. There's even a geocache adventure lab created by Digby465 with stories about each murals' creation.
The mural outside Alimentary is a vibrant entrance to the shopping precinct. There's a rainbow 90's graffiti inspired piece on the (now closed) CREAM building.
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 and on a jazzed up bottleshop across the road from a refined collection of commissioned canvases exhibited inside the Alchemist’s Kitchen.
Azzurro was commissioned by Australian National Maritime Museum to engage the public at Darling Harbour in a collaborative mural depicting marine life of the Great Southern Reef in 2025. The public were invited to join in the painting of the piece next to submarines and warships on the wharf.
You can buy prints and merchandise exclusively through AZZURRO's Redbubble store and for painted canvases you can get in touch by submitting a commission form.
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.
Portfolios and Links
If it's a canvas or a mural you're after, submit this online commission form.
Engaging learning materials suitable for all ages - in classroom and at home
Sleigh the holidays away with totally free printable Xmas activities and gifts!
Learning resources for marine biology with a spotlight on South Aussie species.
