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Making a Break For It
Walking into the car park on the left, you are now feeling very rebellious because you are completely ignoring the “NO TRESPASSING – PRIVATE PROPERTY” sign. How else would you appreciate this mural on the building that constitutes the right wall of…
Fight or Flight
Have a look to your right. A parrot! This is an extremely powerful image. The elegant parrot is the smallest piece and is spatially in the background, yet the positioning of its wings and the ruffled tail feathers attribute to it such a state of…
Stop 1
Street art has assisted in the gentrification of Fitzroy over the past couple of decades. It has helped transform Fitzroy from an industrial working class area, to one of the most sought after suburbs of Melbourne. This rise in street art has been…
Stop 2: Cecil St, Fitzroy
The commissioning of street art on private property has several positive outcomes for both the art and the wider community. Commissioning street art pieces allows both the resident and the artist to share something cultural with the community. Such…
Steam Junkies
The street art on the walls of this café, Steam Junkies, can be viewed from both the train station platform as well as the street. The location of the café provides the perfect transition between the letters and images viewed on the walk here and the…
Jewell Station
Trains, tracks and stations are synonymous with the early emergence of graffiti in New York City. Which has influenced artists cross-globally for generations. Standing on the tracks, looking North of the city, it would seem that the walls lining the…
Hosier Lane
Hosier Lane, which is perhaps the most well known Street Art location in Melbourne, is the final stop on this tour. A quick walk from Centre Place and across the road from Fed Square, this space is, once again, covered in street art and…
Royal Park Tunnel
Our urban exploration of Brunswick starts here in this tunnel situated in Princes Park. With hidden, dark, blank walls, perhaps it is unsurprising to seethe tunnel covered in graffiti. However, the dog walkers, cyclists, and school children…
Centre Place
Another quick walk along swanston street and down Flinders Lane will bring you to Centre Place.
This little lane is the definition of the merging of graffiti art and culture in Melbourne. Absolutely stuffed with little restaurants and cafe's, with…
Union Lane
After a quick walk from Drewery Lane along Swanston street and into the Bourke Street Mall, you'll come to the next stop - Union Lane.
This lane is absolutely filled with street and graffiti art. Its not unusual for this space to be filled with…