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Frankston’s Street Art Festival 2025
Join us at Cube Gallery to celebrate Frankston's Street Art Festival with a solo show by artist Morano in Cube Gallery, and the work of Aleks Grilz in the Glass Cube.
Morano’s show is MOSCA & CVBØIDS - MOSCA challenges resilience and serenity in a chaotic world, inviting deep emotional reflection. CVBØIDS, a mixed-media series on repurposed cardboard, explores our shifting identities through ever-changing forms.
A mural by artist Aleks Grilz is exhibited inside the Glass Cube- view from the street front 24/7.
MORANO's Cube Gallery exhibition Mosca & CVBØIDS
Mosca
"Mosca" is an intimate experience that challenges us about our own capacity for resilience and the search for serenity in an environment that often overwhelms us. The exhibition invites us to connect with our deepest emotions and to reflect on how we face the challenges of daily life in a complex world.
CVBØIDS
"Created from mixed media on repurposed cardboard packaging, my latest series investigates the hidden faces we wear within. CVBØIDS is variable, divisible, movable and ephemeral, with each configuration revealing contradictions and correspondences that are forever shaping and sculpting our fleeting states of being."
BIO
Born in Barcelona city, his family moved to the suburbs where Morano grew up hemmed in by industrial estates, drawing and painting emerged as tools for self-exploration and expression.
As a kid, painting on the streets started to become an obsession. Drawn to graffiti, he was heavily influenced by the illustrations of vinyl covers and skate graphics. At the age of thirteen, he started to make his first murals, a mix of lettering and characters then figurative scenes.
Morano became a very active and notorious graffiti artist during the '90s, participating in numerous exhibitions and appearing regularly in the independent scene publications.
Morano has evolved over the years into a visual artist who explores his art beyond traditional painting and street art using technology to add movement and sound.
Since making the Mornington Peninsula his home in 2016, he has integrated into the local art scene, showcasing his work in various exhibitions and embracing the community spirit.
Aleks Grilz' Glass Cube Exhibition Pixels & Banksias
Aleks Grilz creates sci-fi-inspired murals and studio works. His character-driven art explores humanity’s fusion with nature and technology, envisioning speculative futures with humor and prophecy.
Aleks Grilz is a Blue Mountains-born painter based in Melbourne, working within the speculative genre of science fiction. A graduate of Sydney’s National Art School, his practice spans large-scale murals and studio works, employing techniques like spray paint, brushes, and rollers on extension poles. His energetic style transforms urban spaces and canvases alike, blending the immediacy of street art with the depth of studio painting. Grilz’s work explores the intersection of humanity, technology, and the natural world, creating vivid, otherworldly narratives.
At the heart of Grilz’s current work is a focus on character-driven storytelling, represented through the human form. His recurring figures—dynamic, gestural, and often contorted—serve as archetypes of resilience and transformation. These characters inhabit environments where the natural world merges with technology, reflecting the tension between organic growth and artificial advancement. Through their interactions, Grilz examines themes of identity, connection, and the evolving relationship between humanity and its surroundings.
Grilz’s paintings imagine speculative futures shaped by environmental collapse and technological overreach. His satirical, prophetic vision blends dystopian motifs with dark humor, casting his figures as both creators and casualties of these shifting worlds. By merging the natural with the technological, he challenges viewers to reflect on the consequences of our choices, urging a reimagining of the stories we inherit and the futures we might build.
Paintings availble for purchase Sales at FAC Box Office
View from street dusk to midnight
Frankston Street Art Festival’s People’s Choice Award 2025
Voting for the People's Choice Award for Frankston’s Street Art Festival, has now closed.
In 2025 we put the power in your hands again, inviting the public to act as curators for the next festival because it's your city, your voice. We selected nine talented artists for you to choose from, each vying for the opportunity to be featured at the festival in 2026.
The winning artist Arina Apostolova was announced at the Artist's Welcome on Tuesday, March 18th, 2025. Along with the honour of being selected, she received a trophy, a T-shirt, and a coveted spot in Frankston’s Street Art Festival 2026!
Image: MORANO, Mosca (detail, animation still)
Thumbnail: MORANO, Cvbøids (detail, animation still)
Venue
MORANO
Cube 37 - Cube Gallery
37 Davey Street, next door to Main FAC building
Aleks Grilz
Cube 37 Glass Cube
Artworks: All Day, Every Day & Art After Dark - Dawn to Midnight from the street front
When
Friday 7 March to Saturday 26 April
Free Entry
Tue-Fri 10-5 Sat 10-2
Closed Monday, Sunday, public holidays & long weekends