Beastman artist biography

“I was obsessed with skateboarding,” Brad Eastman says. “I used to shoot skateboard photography, I taught myself how to make skate videos.

Everything affiliated with skateboarding, I immersed myself in.”

Eastman, better known as Beastman, is at Time Out HQ, recalling his youth – at high school in Castle Hill, NSW, filling exercise books with drawings that few people ever saw; studying graphic design at Hornsby TAFE; and those early, unsatisfying dalliances with gainful employment.

Eastman worked in retail, designing for a real estate company and building “crappy” websites; all the while skating, skating, skating.

Beastman artist biography

“I never thought, I’m going to 
be an artist. I never thought, I’m going 
to make money selling paintings.”

But, along with contemporaries Numskull, Roach and Phibs, he was making paintings, and these days they sell very well, thank you very much.

Indeed,