Anthony Lister: Sydney street artist hit with 11 new charges

World-renowned Brisbane street artist Anthony Lister has been hit with 11 new charges including commercial drug supply after allegedly drugging and raping teenage art students.

• Artist allegedly tattooed torso of ‘drugged’ victim

POLICE have hit a world famous Australian street artist accused of raping teenage art students with commercial drug supply charges.

On Thursday Brisbane father Anthony Lister, who now lives in Sydney, was also charged with allegedly indecently assaulting a then aged 21-year-old woman at a Waterloo, Sydney, studio in July 2015.

She is one of four women – aged between 18 and 21 – Lister is accused of attacking on separate occasions between 2015 and 2018.

Anthony Lister outside his house in Darlinghurst. Picture: Christian Gilles

And at his 2019 exhibition ‘Culture Is Over’. Picture: Damian Shaw

In March police raided the 40-year-old’s Darlinghurst home and an industrial space in Marrickville, allegedly seizing four replica pistols, knuckle dusters, LSD, ice, ketamine, and a range of prescription medications.

Lister, who was granted $20,000 bail, was mentioned in Downing Centre Local Court on Thursday where police laid the 11 new charges.

They include indecent assault, commercial drug supply, drug supply, five additional counts of drug possession and three counts of possessing a prescribed restricted substance.

Court documents allege Lister supplied 1.5 grams of LSD and 6.4 grams of alprazolam – a prescription drug – in March.

The documents state Lister was also allegedly found with a cocktail of drugs in his possession during the same month, including psychedelic drug DMT, ketamine and ice.

Lister after his arrest for alleged assault.

Police raided the artist’s home and an industrial space in Marrickville.

The Brisbane-born man is charged with 29 offences in total including gun possession, causing grievous bodily harm, five counts of sexual intercourse without consent and using an intoxicating substance to commit an indictable offence.

Police allege Lister drugged his victims – including three art students – before abusing them.

The ‘adventure painter’ allegedly offered the students ‘internships’ and police allege also tattooed three lines onto the torso of one of his victims while she was heavily intoxicated on November 28, 2015.

The court has previously heard Lister had vowed to fly to the United States after discovering he was under investigation.

The graffiti artist has previously said he’ll fight all of the charges but if convicted faces a lengthy prison sentence.