NEST is a group of street artists coming together to work with urban annotation, cartography and visuality. The project will be realised in collaboration with BGI (Boys and Girls Institute) Wellington. Floyd Garland, Leon Hohepa, Onyx Karati, are Wellington based independent street artists. Garland, Hohepa, Karati, Saarikko collaborated on a wall mural project for BGI Spring 2016.

Petri Saarikko works as a visual artist, and is based in Helsinki. Saarikko combines social commentary with his background as new media designer to produce community-based installations. His work is highly performative in nature and he does not shy away from provocation: often challenging ideas of national identity, artistic authorship, or official political discourses by changing their context and showing the true, artificial nature of these phenomena. His work seeks to expose power relations to make room for individual narratives. Saarikko curates independent social art spaces: Kallio Kunsthalle Helsinki (2011), Kallio Kunsthalle Wellington (2016) and collaborates regularly with his partner Sasha Huber Saarikko.