Awshit
Is our artist line-up for Tangi Street Art Festival 2025
A self-taught artist based in Bali, Awshit has been passionate about drawing since the age of nine, eventually discovering his voice through graffiti, mural-making, and digital painting. His work primarily focuses on portraiture, often imbuing faces with emotional intimacy, layered narratives, and symbolic motifs. A recurring element in his practice is the daisy flower, which serves as a personal emblem of peace, love, and positivity.
Through both street art and studio work, Awshit explores themes of identity, resilience, and optimism. Faces, flowers, and everyday life become universal carriers of human connection, bridging personal experience with shared emotion. His murals celebrate the subtle interplay between people and their environments, inviting viewers to pause, reflect, and engage with the narratives on display.
Awshit’s practice emphasizes spontaneity and intuition, letting ideas develop organically as he responds to his surroundings. This approach allows him to create works that feel honest, alive, and distinctly his own. His art continues to enrich Bali’s urban landscape while honoring his roots, culture, and the natural world.
Awshit is one of the invited artists for the third edition of Tangi Street Art Festival, taking place from 11–17 May 2025. The festival’s theme, Tri Hita Karana, emphasizes harmony across three fundamental relationships: spirituality, humanity, and nature.
Through Parahyangan (the divine), the festival celebrates spiritual expression and creativity; Pawongan (humanity) encourages collaboration and community engagement; and Palemahan (nature) promotes environmental awareness and sustainability.
Awshit’s participation brought his intuitive, portrait-driven style to the festival, using vibrant colors, expressive faces, and symbolic daisy motifs to convey emotional connection and cultural storytelling. His murals invite viewers to reflect on identity, environment, and social change, offering an honest, human perspective. By bridging personal experience with local culture, Awshit’s work reinforces the festival’s mission of connecting people, art, and place in meaningful and visually compelling ways.
Returning to Bali after working as a street artist in Dubai, Awshit embraced the opportunity to focus on his own art. Known for his realistic portraits and daily flower motifs, he approaches each mural with intuition rather than overthinking, allowing the wall to guide his creative process.
For this edition, he drew inspiration from the island’s culture and environment. “Sometimes if I think too deeply, it slows me down,” he says. Starting with simple lines and responding to textures, colors, and energy around him, he gradually built the composition step by step.
His mural, “The Opposite” for Tangi Street Art Festival 2025, juxtaposes contrasting regions of Bali—one preserving its natural environment, the other affected by rapid development. Through vibrant colors, expressive faces, and his signature daisy motifs, Awshit conveys hope for change and the resilience of culture and nature.
By observing, responding, and letting the artwork evolve organically, he creates a piece that is unmistakably his own. The mural stands as a reflection of Bali’s diversity, celebrating human connection, environmental awareness, and the beauty of the island’s traditions through his intuitive and honest artistic vision.