WITH 662 million views, Gotye’s ‘Somebody That I Used to Know’ filmclip is one of the most viewed on the internet and the artist responsible for the amazing body artwork was in Noosa on Tuesday to launch the Australian Body Art Festival.
Emma Hack, who began her career as a children’s face painter, has been a body paint artist for over 25 years and will feature at this year’s revamped Body Art Festival in Eumundi from 16 to 18 October.
The launch was held at Cricks Noosaville and guests were treated to a sneak peek of this year’s theme, POP Trashion, as well as another masterpiece from Emma.
It took Emma six and a half hours to paint her POP Trashion creation, but the wait was worth it.
Event organiser Anthony Wynne-Hoelscher said the theme of POP Trashion was to pay hommage to the trend of everything that was old was new again, as well as to maintain the local values of reduce, reuse and recycle.
Emma’s addition to the festival line-up is part of the organisation’s move to revamp the festival and tap into the cultural roots of Eumundi.
