In the arts and recreation industry the gender wage gap sits at 7.2 per cent and it's a discrepancy Gumbaynggirr muralist Aretha Brown is trying to eradicate.

In 2019, Brown founded the Kiss My Art Collective to provide young women and non-binary artists jobs and work experience in the art world by employing them to assist her in painting large-scale public murals in Australia and internationally.

Brown said inspiration came calling because she wanted to showcase just how many people come together to work on a mural.

"If you are a muralist, it's a very male thing to kind of show your artworks and say I made this artwork look how big it is," she said.

"And not realising there's about 15 people that actually helped make it, usually there's huge teams of people that kind of get murals done and very rarely is there ever one person working on one work.

"And so for me it was about actually highlighting the girls that help me and I have an all femme team so they are all non-binary and female painters only."

Recently, Brown completed her biggest mural yet in Naarm on Collins Street. She's also painted murals and spaces in London, Indonesia and India.

She's wholly passionate about making sure underrepresented artists are paid for their time and work through Kiss My Art.

"It's this never-ending thing of women volunteering their time and never getting paid for stuff because it's so gendered who volunteers their time," she said.

"For me it's about getting everyone a decent wage and opportunities to come and paint.

"We shouldn't have to have backup careers as an artist, I've done three years of art school, I've earned my degree just like everyone else so this is my full time career so getting a decent wages, getting job opportunities and internships in the same way any other career would is really important to see."

Brown said as an Aboriginal artist, this means more to her because of the history of Aboriginal artists not being professionally recognised.

"Aboriginal women have been painting walls in this country since time began," she said.

"Aboriginal women have been taking up spaces and painting, rock art and making public work. There is absolutely nothing new, I am not reinventing the wheel here.

"But it's the lack of recognition of their art that is the problem."

Brown is currently working on a piece for the international gallery at the National Gallery of Victoria.

And more of her murals will also be popping up around Australia and the world.