Who or What is Eekas?

July 1, 2025

I currently live in Southbank, Brisbane. It's an inner-city suburb, and while walking around, I see a lot of grafitti. If you see the same word enough, eventually you start to recognise it, and I'm really seeing a lot of "Eekas". Here are some tags I've seen myself:

Cordelia Street

A relatively low effort Eekas sticker, stuck to the back of a bus timetable.

Manning Street

Multiple Eekas tags in big block letters on the side of a building.

Montague Road

Another Eekas sticker on a pole, with the skyling of South Brisbane in the background.

Misc other tags:

Eekas on a garage door.

Another Eekas sticker.

Upon Googling "Eekas", I find information for a hair salon, and a bunch of photos/videos on Brisbane street-art focussed Instagram photographers. It's some of the more impressive graffiti I've seen. Here are some examples I've ripped from Instagram so people without Meta accounts can view them:

Some trains

A large colourful graffiti tag saying "Eekas" on the side of a train.

Another large colourful graffiti tag saying "Eekas" on the side of a train.

Some nice walls

Slightly more decorative Eekas graffiti on a wall.

More decorative Eekas graffiti on a wall.

Also their graffiti is prolific enough, that it was captured by another artist in the painting shown below:

A painting of a van, side-on. The side has been graffitied with "Eekas".

I trawled the depths of Google to find more mentions of Eekas, and the only significant mention I could find was this Instagram reel showing how to pressurise a fire extinguisher and use it to spray paint. The voice has been changed and the person has been blurred to maintain anonymity, which makes sense given the nature of the video, but that's about as far as I got.

Mr Eekas, if you're out there, hit me up.

Update 12/07/25:

Here are some more tags I've seen while walking around the last week. Seeing Eekas tags are like little Brisbane Hidden Mickeys to me at this point. Secret urban easter-eggs to look out for.

I think I might have found the van in the painting. I believe this was on Mollison Street.

I think this was actually the van from the painting above!

Eekas Bin.

A green skip bin sprayed with the Eekas tag.

Holographic Eekas stickers on Melbourne Street.

A pipe covered in stickers, including a Holographic Eekas sticker.

The skate park at Davies Park. (Not seen: 4 more Eekas's just to the left of this one.)

The side of a skate park. A big fancy Eekas here.

Side of a building as viewed from Riverside Drive. How'd he get up there?

A giant almost pizel-art Eekas on the side of a building.

Looking forward to finding them all!