Andy Mac is an artist and director/co-founder/ curator of Citylights Projects in Melbourne. Citylights is an independent public art project utilising permanent light-box exhibition sites and produces ephemeral events focusing on collaboration, street art, and emerging artists.

/      Citylights is operational since 1996 and has exhibited work by more than 400 Australian and international artists. Citylights is a fusion of street strategies and advertising industry mediums, aimed at using public space as a platform for exposing contemporary art to a wide audience. Citylights sites in Hosier Lane and Centre Place are notorious as organic outdoor graffiti galleries, added to daily by artists, and hailed as the No.1 cultural attraction in Australia by Lonely Planet Blue List in 2007.

/      Andy studied photography at the Victorian College of Art and has documented graffiti and street culture in Melbourne since 1990, and is internationally recognised as an authority on the subject. Andrew has collected stencil and street art for major public galleries and staged a diverse range of public and guerrilla works, including projects at the Museum of Australia, National Gallery of Australia, National Gallery of Victoria, and projects in Sydney, Dublin, Vienna and London.

/      In 2005 Andy founded Until Never, an indoor gallery focused on new works by iconoclastic artists.