Axel StarViking is a Central Coast NSW–based polymath creative whose work spans music, theatre, visual art, wearable art, writing, tattoo art, hypnosis, psychotherapy and community arts practice. With over forty years of performance experience across multiple disciplines, Axel’s work sits at the intersection of storytelling, music, identity, visual design and community engagement.

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Axel trained as a vocalist in the Bel canto tradition and began performing professionally at a young age in South Africa, touring nationally and internationally for over a decade with the KwaZulu-Natal Youth Choir as a soloist and assistant conductor. His performance career has included theatre, concert performance, choral work, solo performance and multidisciplinary arts projects across South Africa and Australia. His musical work now combines electronic pop rock opera, folk influences, classical voice and Afro-inspired rhythmic elements, reflecting both his South African roots and his later life in Australia.

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As a multidisciplinary artist, Axel has worked across more than forty creative industries over his lifetime, including traditional painting, body and face painting, special effects art, wearable art and costume design, theatre direction, music education, community arts programming and tattoo art. His wearable art practice includes sculptural Viking-inspired Valkyrie crowns and headpieces made from found objects, jewellery, natural materials and textiles, which form an important visual element of his theatrical performances.

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Axel is also a published author and Clinical Hypnotherapist and Psychotherapist, and has written books on self-hypnosis, cognitive restructuring and personal transformation. His work often explores themes of identity, transformation, mythology, survival, memory and belonging, and these themes appear across his music, theatre, visual art and writing.

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His major performance works include Changeling, a theatrical concert exploring identity and transformation through storytelling and music, and Intergalactica, a festival and concert performance combining original music, storytelling and community participation. Axel’s performances are known for combining powerful vocals, theatrical storytelling, wearable art costuming and immersive audience experiences. Axel performs live, alongside prerecorded vocals of his former female-presenting self, Aster, creating music in duet across time and space. His music can be found HERE.

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As a regional queer artist based on the Central Coast of NSW, Axel is passionate about creating and presenting high-quality arts experiences in regional communities and building strong arts networks outside major metropolitan centres. His work is deeply connected to community, collaboration and storytelling, and he continues to develop new theatre works, music projects, wearable art collections and community arts events.

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Axel StarViking’s work is ultimately about transformation, storytelling and connection — creating art that allows people to see themselves, their stories and their possibilities reflected back to them through music, theatre and visual art.