Mickie is the mastermind behind the disguises.

1. Can you please describe your experience to date?
I am a street-artist so I have been creatively intervening in people's everyday lives for over a decade now.

2. How would you define your gardening style?
I would describe my gardening style as "Nouveux-Naive", i.e.: I've got my L plates on when it comes to horticulture, but I am in top gear when it comes to imaginative public spaces, what some might call "haughty-culture", only I like to keep it real and meaningful to all who stumble across it.

3. Favourite plant or flower?
Weeds. The underdog of the plant kingdom. I especially love the weeds that burst out of concrete and try to take it over.

4. Best transformation so far?
Putting in a garden with an awesome gothic bandstand into the black heart of the nation's band scene, Newtown. That's my favourite transformation so far. It is both beautiful and socially functional.

5. Favourite gardening tool?
Like Ally I would have to say it is the imagination. Your hands must follow your head.

6. Where do you get your inspiration and design ideas from?
I fill my brain with information and curiosities from books, art, the internet, the city and people around me, and then it flows back out again when triggered by an exciting project.

7. Have you done guerrilla gardening overseas?
Well I was born in Ireland, so I count all the secret huts on vacant land that my friends and I built when we were kids. We concealed them with shrubbery, and made maze like pathways leading to them, that only we could work out.

8. What do you see the purpose of guerrilla gardening to be?
For me guerrilla gardening is about re-considering land ownership, to collectively reclaim it for the public good. We once had a much better connection to the land which we have lost in modern cities, and yet cities can be exciting hubs of connectivity. Guerrilla gardening brings the two together. Spontaneity has long disappeared from public places in the way that we are governed from the top down, and I see guerrilla gardening as bringing a return to spontaneous pro-activism. It is the opposite of the selfishness with which we are required build our cities and culture. It is generous, and above all it is fun and life affirming.

9. Have you ever been caught guerrilla gardening? And if so, what were the consequences?
Well my name is 'Mickie Quick', which is old 1920's Aussie slang for 'a quick getaway'! Though yes, I have been caught! But it really isn't very hard to talk your way out of trouble. All you have to do is tweak the perspective of it as 'taking' to being seen as 'giving'! We're not stealing space and running off with it, we're giving content, growth, imagination, and function to what was otherwise a kind of black hole.

10. Do you have any other hobbies?
If I were to use the expression, 'having my fingers in many pies', I would have to add that I have 'more pies than fingers! I am kept very busy with two D.I.Y printing presses, making and exhibiting street-art and 'zines', bicycle building and cycling, hosting film nights and artist talks, making clothes, helping friends with their projects.