There’s more to street artist and high school teacher Matt Tervo than a first impression might have you believe.
Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time.There’s more to Matt Tervo than meets the eye – which in the most immediate sense is the thick mullet cascading down his back, resting just below his shoulder blades.
The man behind the audacious haircut is a mentor and passionate advocate for the city’s street art community.It’s a Wednesday afternoon and Tervo is striding across the grounds of Kelvin Grove State College to teach his last class of the day: a street art group he established when he started at the school two years ago.
“I had awesome teachers who helped me with that. I only started teaching 30, so coming to it later, I saw it a little bit differently. I’ve seen a bit more of the world, and I was like, ‘Oh, you just need an adult.’” In 2023, he and Canberra street artist James “Smalls” Small pioneered the city’s first successful legal street art wall in Ekibin Park East in Greenslopes., a site immortalised by the “founding fathers” of Brisbane’s graffiti scene in 1993. Three months later, he stood beside the lord mayor to unveil a third site at the Paddington skate park.“People have been trying to make this happen since the ’80s,” he explains. “Government-supported legal walls have been a dream for over 40 years.
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