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Artist Bio
Who is SKR™️?
SKR is a known abbreviation for “safe keeping receipt”, which, in the art world, indicates store of value. The 44-year-old Melbourne-based artist who owns the SKR trademark creates original works and strictly limited edition prints - unconventional sketches and illustrations on card and sticky notes - hand-drawn in marker or pen, hand-signed.
Every piece starts as a sketch and stays one: bold black line, flat hyper-colour, a character caught mid-thought. The drawings are small and fast on purpose - an illustration should say its bit before anyone has time to get precious about it.
Underneath it all, whether it's a gag or an argument, satire is the medium. Anti-war, anti-advertising, anti-taking-any-of-it-too-seriously - the punchline gets you close enough to read the question. That's the whole method: take something ordinary, rotate it.
The pieces are released as collectibles through the SKR exchange on Depop rather than through a gallery system - priced so a drawing can end up on a real wall, not in a vault. Exhibited in the UK. Drawing in Melbourne, daily.
Recent Work
“Mummy?”
Four thousand years in a tomb, an entire pharaoh's wardrobe on his head, and this bloke's one burning thought is still “mummy?”. He's strolling out of the afterlife like it's a Tuesday, bandages coming loose at the wrist, grinning the grin of someone who has absolutely not thought this through. Egyptology's greatest pun, finally given legs - two of them, walking.
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Past Exhibitions
7 - 9 August 2026 · United Kingdom
Arrival Gallery - UK Show
My work B2 “Why”, a satirical anti-war piece, was chosen by Arrival Gallery for their UK show, which ran from 7-9 August 2026. The original is for sale in my Depop shop.
Selected & exhibited by
Arrival Gallery, UK · Aug 2026
Inspirations
The Abstract Thinking of Banksy
It was never the stencils that got me. It was the thinking.
Banksy takes a bunch of traffic cones - the single most ignorable object in any city - welds them into a star and leaves it on a central reservation in London traffic. Nothing is painted. Nothing is written. The most boring thing on the street becomes a monument, and every driver crawling past has to do the work of asking why it's there.
That's abstract thinking: don't illustrate the idea, rearrange the world until the idea is unavoidable.
That's the lesson I draw from, literally. Take the mundane - a mummy, a bird on a branch, a traffic cone - rotate it forty-five degrees, and let the joke carry the argument in for you. A mummy asking for his mum and a fighter jet asking why
above a war are the same trick at postcard scale: ordinary thing, unreasonable angle, question you can't un-ask.
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Contact
Commissions, exhibitions, press, or you just want a specific drawing chased down - send it through. Straight to my inbox.
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age.micheli@gmail.com