Marty Baptist has exhibited throughout Australia and Internationally since 2003.

He has collaborated with a diverse array of creative partners and labels including Paramount House (Sydney), Cliché (France), Latitude group (Melbourne), Fishbowl (New york city), Richards Stanisich (Sydney), Krooked Skateboards (USA), Warner Brothers and Jacksons on George amongst many others.

Baptist's work is held in numerous private collections and institutional collections around the world.

His work combines a personal form of existentialism with raw expressionist symbolism. Baptist explores the problems of human existence and centres on the experience of thinking, feeling, and acting through his paintings. A backdrop lived and experienced deep within skateboarding and street culture has led to the development of an authentic and unique outsider visual aesthetic.

Baptist’s paintings are a mix of astute observations and out loud thoughts. His work has a dark sense of humour that he matches off against the everyday. His imagery ranges from oblique pop culture references to loose figurative observations. Baptist’s use of text adds a cryptic overture, ranging from gentle jest to subversive honesty.

Bus-stop graffiti and sgraffito meets ambiguous, elliptic text and symbolic imagery from the ancient and contemporary worlds. His sources are found in the underworld, chance encounters, late nights on the street, early mornings on the beach, overheard conversations, bar room chatter, confused situations and texts, online & on the phone.

In most parts Baptist has been one to shy away from the old guard Ethos and the conventional art world.

“When a painting just becomes a commodity and spends its years locked up in a plywood box or storage facilities it’s quite sad. It’s nice to see artworks in the everyday, even if it ends up on a shirt, or a skateboard. I’ve always felt that art should at least have some sort of meaning and at the best, inspire. Other than that it just seems Decorative and bubble gum.” – MB

Baptist's work is held in numerous private collections and institutional collections around the world. His artwork or apparel designs has been collected by likes of Matt Damon (actor) and Dhani Harrison (musician). Baptist's work questions how we live our daily lives. Often stating the obvious he creates an air of uncertainty around the simplest of things.