Tori-Jay Mordey is an established First Nations illustrator and artist based in Meanjin/Brisbane, with over a decade of experience in the creative industry. Born on Thursday Island in the Torres Strait and raised in Hervey Bay, she began her career at 17 after illustrating for Bakir and Bi, which won the 2012 Blak&Write competition alongside her Aunty Jillian Boyd (the author). After graduating from  Queensland College of Art in 2016, she built a successful freelance career, later joining Jacky Winters’ First Nations agency Solid Lines in 2022.

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Honing her skills in murals, digital illustration, and painting, she is recognised for her bold use of colour, emotional depth, and expressive style, often exploring themes of identity, connection, love, and loss. With a deep-rooted passion for visual storytelling. Her most notable works includes projects with VIVID SYDNEY (2024) projecting her art onto the Sydney Harbour Bridge Pylons, TARINGA COLES LOCAL (2024) exclusively designing the wall paper, tote bags and mural for the entire store, her first ever international mural in NIUE (2025), and illustrating for the award-winning and internationally published children’s book A BLUE KIND OF DAY (2022).

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She thoroughly enjoys creating pieces that emotionally speaks to the viewer while also over saturating the space with colour and light. Tori-Jay hopes her art and actions can make a difference when it comes to representing herself, her community, and contemporary Torres Straits Islander artist’s as a whole.
 

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Proudly represented by

Solid Lines - Jacky Winters

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