Building Owner - Illegal Works

Not all building owners are so receptive of street art. However, this doesn’t deter street artists from decorating their walls with paint, paste-ups, and stickers. Whether unwanted or appreciated, the building owner has ownership of the physical…

Building Owner - Legal Works

Some building owners have embraced street art in an attempt to control the representations on their property. Private owners are commissioning street artists to do work for them legally. They might be homeowners wanting to cover up unwanted street…

Artist

Imagine yourself in a public library and you step away from the desk to search for a book. When you return, you realise the watch you left on the desk is missing. Whoever took your watch stole from you, not from the library, although it was a public,…

Towards Darkness

The tour begins with the idea of ‘transition’ in the spatial form of a tunnel and the liminal time between dusk and nightfall. This starting point is designed to symbolically transition the participant from the habits of their daily routine into the…

Stop 4.

I found it interesting that this mural is situated within close proximity of the aboriginal boy mural in Fitzroy simply because together, they represent identities which are completely antithetical to one another. These two murals, in my opinion, fit…

Stop 1

Once you have reached 71 Leicester Street, close your eyes and spin in a circle 10 times. As you open your eyes, walk down the alleyway you are facing towards. What do you see? Little stickers clustered together on a windowsill? Huge blow-ups…

Stop 5

Instagram has become such an effective way for artists to have their work seen that many artists put more weight on capturing an image of their art for Instagram and allowing their work to circulate through that digital platform than to have people…

Stop 4

Many amateur and professional street artists post their street art on Instagram as a way to publicize their pieces and adding longevity to the pieces life span. By creating Instagram accounts, these artists can use Instagram as a digital platform to…

Stop 3

Le Petit Voyeur is a printed limited edition visual arts publication from Copenhagen, Denmark. This photo posted is a photograph taken by photographer Soren Solkaer of graffiti artist Lee Quinones in front of Quinones's piece. Photographers such as…

Stop 2

Through the control the Instagram user possesses from the moment the photograph is conceived, the photo is reproduced in ways that may skew how the viewer sees or interprets it. Perhaps the angle makes the image unclear, the scale becomes unknown,…