A mystery artist with a steady hand and an unusual mastery of slippery drawing surfaces has captured the imaginations of students at the University of Wollongong.
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Student journalists have dubbed the artist "UOW's Banksy" after three unsigned texta masterpieces appeared on whiteboards in the creative arts faculty.
The first of the drawings, discovered mid-March, appeared stencil-style but had been drawn using thousands of freehand pen strokes.
A similarly detailed second work, showing a flame-haired woman diving underwater, appeared in early April, before the third drawing, referencing spilt milk, materialised on or about April 17.
Shawn Burns, a journalism lecturer and co-ordinator of the newsroom subject that has spawned a student-written online magazine, The Current, said they were pursuing the identity of the artist - sort of.
"There's a part of us that wants to know who they are, but we're more than happy in the newsroom to leave them anonymous," he said.
"Whoever it is they're very talented. [The Current] started logging them to bring them to everyone's attention.
"Working in the creative arts faculty you know there's all these talented people around you, but because there's so much of it around it's a bit like you can't see the trees for the forest."
Mr Burns said the works were an example of accessible art - far from an exclusive art gallery - and were especially admirable for having been drawn on a slippery whiteboard without the artist smudging their lines.
The drawings covered almost the entire whiteboards in functioning classrooms, and have all since been erased.
