Warburton Lane

Posted on April 10, 2026 by Mary C

below: Warburton Lane in central Melbourne was full of stickers and paste-ups including this happy little octopus with a zigzag smile

below: This pile of animals by Kaffeine – with a pink pig in a jaunty vest on top – covers a double door and more

below: About the graffiti on the left – one of the characters that often appears in Mr. Dimples graffiti such as this one, is the fellow with the funny rectangular head – with a button for one eye and a stitched X for the other.

below: A D7606 crayon writes something on the wall while two big eyes watch. But I’m worth it!

graffiti paste ups and stickers on a wall, D7606 crayon, eyes, a sign that says I'm worth it

graffiti paste ups and stickers on a wall including catchoo worm with tongue stuck out, a typewriter with a piece of paper with words until the west wind brings you back again. A pair of eyes, a cat collage on sheet music paper, a train by D7606, t bonez from urban ninja squadron dressed in red and giving peace sign with two fingers

below: “Until the wind from the west brings you back again” is in the middle, to the left of a very red T-bonez from Urban Ninja Squadron (peace man!). On the other side there is a cat collage on sheet music by chacha_doune (aka Cha). It’s difficult to see but the train headed your way has “God Save the Queen” written on one of its front corners – That paste up seems to be a collaboration between D7606 and Voxx Romana.

graffiti paste ups and stickers on a wall

below: White chickens

below: That’s the biggest carrot that I have ever seen! … and the skinniest ankles!

below: … Safety pins and a lot of piercings! This crazy pink haired punk emu is full of holes! Painting by John Murray.

below: Meet Nancy – another John Murray emu

below: This is Effie; she’s obviously related to Nancy!

below: A little bit real in the midst of a lot a fantasy. By Lukas Kasper.

street art in Warburton Lane, Melbourne by Lukas Kasper of a lion face with very realistic furry nose but stylized abstract rest of face

below: More mixing of reality and fantasy – human, animal, and robot with a disturbing outcome.

street art mural, man walking on all fours, with a tail, with some body parts made of mechanics

below: High red shoes and not much else

2 pieces of street art in Warburton Lane, Melbourne. Part of a painting of white leaves on black, one a slap by leilah of a cat-like woman robot with high red shoes and bikini

below: mmm

paste up graffiti, large piece, woman with two heads

below: A lone fisherman surrounded by barbed wire.

street art in Warburton Lane, Melbourne, a circle of white barbed wire. in the center is a framed photograph of a man fishing beside purple water

below: Angry suburbia

below: mmm

graffiti and street art, Mr. Dimples, a woman holding a bomb

below: Mr. Dimples again

below: Neftnik’s young woman wears a green outfit with leggings that are blue with red polka dots.

below: That’s a bomb?

below: Up, up, and away – that’s one way for a ladybird to fly away home!

below: A jumble of slaps

below: Peppa Pig, Nemo, a happy flower, and a banana with a face… and more.

collection of graffiti stickers and paste ups on a wall

below: Potted plants

black and white paste ups, line drawings of plants in pots, old and weathered

below: A handful of dripping diamonds

street art in Warburton Lane, Melbourne, black and white, handful of dropping diamonds

below: Robot heads on circles

street art in Warburton Lane, Melbourne, Robot heads on background full of circles, design

below: Portrait of a woman

Photos taken February 2025

Black and White, and a little bit more

Posted on January 23, 2026 by Mary C

Encrypto Project #2 was a collaboration between four artists, URSH, Brody X, Fikaris, and Baxter. It consists of a series of black and white paintings together on a wall in Abbotsford (Melbourne). Each painting is monochromatic and they are all abstract (except for the black figure by Michael Fikaris at the right end of the series, immediately below). It was painted in 2023.

righthand end of encrypto project number two,black and white abstract paintings on a wall in Abbotsford, by collaboration of URSH, Brody X, Fikaris, and Baxter

below: Most of the series, along the side of a house and then the back fence,

encrypto project number two,black and white abstract paintings on a wall in Abbotsford, by URSH, Brody X, Fikaris, and Baxter

part of encrypto project number two,black and white abstract paintings on a wall in Abbotsford, by URSH, Brody X, Fikaris, and Baxter

below: The black figure with the big nose in the bottom sticker looks a lot like the man in the panel at the righthand end of the wall!

below: A well dressed lizard hangs out in the alley too!

Photos taken February 2025

Collingwood (Melbourne) portraits

Posted on January 22, 2026 by Mary C

A collection of faces that I saw as I walked around Collingwood one summer day.

below: She looks down on the parking lot.

street art painting, portrait, woman's eyes and nose on grey wall, high above cars parked below, lower part of face has been tagged over

below: Artist LING painted this image of Patrick Coyle on the side of the Albion Hotel. Coyle was the original owner of that hotel.

street art painting, portrait by artist LING, of Patrick Coyle, man sitting with a full glass of beer in his hand, elbow on table, chin in hand, face has mustache and beard

below: mmm

street art painting, portrait, 2 workman with beards and mustaches, yellow and orange high viz vests, black wool hats

below: An older portrait by Adnate graces a small brick wall.

street art painting, portrait, a woman, by adnate, with head scarf and red cloth covering mouth

below: There is another, much larger, Adnate mural nearby. This apartment building on Wellington Street was painted in 2018. I wrote a blog post about it a few years ago – Four Adnate Faces, Dec 2018

below: On the left, is a portrait by Vince Moloney. Three little yellow characters by dscreet are on the door to the right.

on the left, in grey tones, street art painting, portrait in greys of young man wearing large headphones and on the right, three yellow characters by dscreet, one of which looks like an owl

below: Another portrait by LING, this time it’s Alf Stewart who stars in ‘Home and Away’, an Australian soap opera.

street art painting, portrait by artist LING, of Alf Stewart, under a street sign that says Bedford street, red car parked in front, person on sidewalk beside,

below: Michelangelo on a wood fence.

Michelangelo portrait in many colours, on wood fence in alley,

below: It almost looks like someone is playing “Peek a Boo” although I am sure that the two faces were not painted at the same time, or by the same person.

below: Drew in bright colours

top of head in blue, bright blue nose, pink glasses, yellow and green eyes, red very short hair and red eyebrows, word Drew written across bottom of face, 24

below: One of the uglier faces that you will see today…

ugly mis-shapen face painted on gate, small forehead, large jaw, mouth and teeth, long nose,

below: With visions of palm trees in front of his face – a blue skull by Callum Preston

blue skull wearing red glasses with images of palm trees in the lenses, by Callum Preston

Photos taken February 2025

Rankins Lane (Melbourne)

Posted on January 20, 2026 by Mary C

below: Time for coffee, time for shooting. ….

graffiti in Rankins Lane, Melbourne, paste ups of three little men saying hey, it's coffee time, also a very blue shadowy character with a gun in each hand and a long robe and hood that covers his face

below: ET

graffiti in Rankins Lane, Melbourne, paste ups and stencils, globe parachute on an iguana, ET in a black robe and framed with flowers, words that say your dreams will come true if you keep wishing, and last, a big black question mark,

below: King of Clowder’s double headed woman stencil

below: Paper paste-up behind a plant – it’s a large espresso maker repurposed as a planter.

below: Rabbit and Cat, BFF

below: Happy Day

below: Words of advice – “Don’t trade your authenticity for approval.

below: Part of a large tropical mural by Deb with birds – parrots and flamingos – and a big pink royal looking cat.

mural by Deb in Rankins Lane, very pink, women, toucan, and flamingos, tropical plants

below: The other part of the Deb mural.

mural by Deb, a vulture and a plate of cupcakes

below: Recess time with scissors and combs.

below: Crab and beetle.

below: More pink. Mama Cat? With many kittens?

below: Clownish?

below: Gas mask and coveralls

Photos taken March 2025

Austral Lane

Posted on January 19, 2026 by Mary C

There was not a lot of street art in this central Melbourne alley but I decided to give it its own blog post anyhow.

below: A cat and a dog… and then someone added “woof” and “meow”. Clever, right? Groan. The cat stencil was created by Melbourne artist King of the Clowder aka Night Krawler.

street art on a white painted brick wall, Austral Lane in Melbourne, a green dog head with red tongue hanging out, a black and white cat with a pink tongue, a yellow tennis ball bounces between them

below: Robobop is Robert Scholten – ink drawing of a mask in two pieces.

below: Kyobi is also in Austral Lane.

Photos taken February 2025

Uniacke Court

Posted on January 19, 2026 by Mary C

….. another Central Melborne lane with street art

below: A very large woman, painted by Deb, stands at one end of the alley

man on sidewalk beside car, looking back towards entrance to Uniacke Court, a lane in Melbourne, with a large mural on the wall

below: A Joker mural, painted by Heesco (aka Heesco Khosnaran)

entrance to Uniacke Court, a lane in Melbourne, with a large mural on the wall, ugly man with bulging pink eyes and large teeth, big pointy chin, wild green hair

below: Harley Quinn

below: The Corporation and a hungry little black bird.

mural, urban art, small black bird looking upwards, with beak open, stencil on brick wall behind says The Corporation, with marionette string

below: A leopard silently watches from the doorway, another mural by Deb

painting of a leopard by DEB sitting in a doorway

below: Tattoos and golf clubs

man with tattoos in his face, mural, holding a golf club in his hands

below: Be rationally crazy idea

below: Some small graffiti too – including Tweet with a several balloons.

below: Small white stencil

Photos taken February 2025

Higson Lane, downtown Melbourne

Posted on December 12, 2025 by Mary C

….Yet another lane in the Central Business District in Melbourne that has street art on its walls.

below: Two bald men, two pink robots.

street art urban art in Higson Lane, two bald men's heads with two square pink robot heads

below: Two different men. On the right, Julian Assange, of WikiLeaks fame, is painted on a roller door. On the left is a portrait of a different man, Ethan Joker, by Lushsux.

muralsin an alley, On the right, Julian Assange, of WikiLeaks fame, is painted on a roller door. On the left is a portrait of a different man, Ethan Joker, by Lushsux

below: Bob Marley

Black and white stencil graffiti of Bob Marley, with cursive text of some of his lyrics "You say you love rain But you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun But you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind But when it comes you close your windows. That's why I'm scared when you say you love me." — “You say you love rain But you use an umbrella to walk under it. You say you love sun But you seek shelter when it is shining. You say you love wind But when it comes you close your windows. That’s why I’m scared when you say you love me.”

below: A mix of different paste-ups and stencils including an astronaut’s proclamation that “We are the Chosen Few” and a UFO with an enormous brain.

below: A closer look at “We are the Chosen Few”

paper paste up in alley, We are the chosen few, UFO with a very big brain in the dome of the top

below: Catwoman on the run with a blue bag from DeliveryBunny.

below: Bad Habits – Riots not diets!

sticker graffiti, with text bad habits, plus cursive writing riots not diets

below: The Breaking Bad LEGO guys are in Higson Lane too. There is also a little Robbo-T guy with crossed wrenches – a skull and crossbones motif!

below: More little stickers and paste-ups.

below: She has funny ears, perhaps elfin ears.

below: “Classic” graffiti

graffiti that looks like ancient greek or roman art, people in togas, man with laurel wreath

below: One end of Higson Lane

Higson Lane in downtown Melbourne, with urban art

below: Chimp One painted this portrait

below: Painting in shades of pink by Louis Moore

painting of a man, street art mural, in pink hues, by Louis Moore

below: Cute penguins and a big fuzzy penguin, by Lukas Kasper

Cute penguins and a big brown fuzzy penguin, a mural by Lukas Kasper

below: On the left, another Lukas Kasper painting – this time a lizard. On the right, a brilliantly coloured falcon’s head by Silly Sully

2 street art murals, On the left, a Lukas Kasper painting of a lizard. On the right, a brilliantly coloured falcon's head by Silly Sully

below: Melbourne Moments

below: Revolution on the Television Head, or something like that. A women’s revolution? It’s the work of Salvo, aka Matthew Domenic Salvo.

below: “It’s okay to change your mind” written on orange beside a Tinkerstrumpf paste-up of a young woman and her guns. She has appeared in London and Cologne as well here in Melbourne.

below: On the right, a sort of portrait of a woman, or at least the skull of one.. with sunglasses.. and then overlaid with yellow, orange, and red stripes (by v-Is_4_vasso) The one in the middle is either a restaurant menu or an artwork meant to look like a menu – whichever the case, she has a red octopus on her head. Last, the very pink face on the left looks a lot like Princess Leia.

3 paper paste ups graffiti pieces, one is red, orange and yellow portrait of a long haired skull with sunglasses on by v is 4 vasso.

below: Ronald McDonald is saving a seat for you.

graffiti, ronald mcdonald sitting on a wood bench

below: Robbo-T has ripped his heart out but the two young ladies haven’t noticed.

paste up graffiti, one is Robbo-T sitting on ground with his heart in his hand, the other is two young women, one dress in black boots and black outfit, the other is wearing nothing, Sitting with their knees bent in front of them.

below: Black and white photos of somewhere in Melbourne.

below: XUF with Wednesday Addams about to spray.

below: Cax One created it, but what an ugly face!

below: It’s a beautiful day to respect other people’s pronouns. It also seems to be a good day for dancing.

below: Little fish swimming on the concrete – like a fish out of water

small three D fish graffiti on a wall, beside a painted yellow heart with happy face on it

below: Born in the spotlight, under surveillance from the beginning. POW! Or Prisoners of War?

stencil street art of a surveillance camera by a bird's nest, also 3 D red letters spelling POW

Photos taken February 2025

Brunswick

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Mary C

Brunswick is one of the suburbs of Melbourne; it is north of the Central Business District.

below: One of the murals painted on the side of an older building on Sydney Road. This is the Retreat Hotel and the mural was painted by Buff Diss.

cyclist cycling past a street art mural on the side of an old two storey building on Sydney Road in Brunswick

below: Treaty” and “Teach Black history” JESWRI (aka Jesse Wright) on the side of another older building on Sydney Road. There is a Korean BBQ restaurant on the lower level although most of the building looks a bit decrepit.

street art mural on the side of an old two storey building on Sydney Road in Brunswick

below: A series of paintings in shades of gray with a large pointy mountain in the back.

below: “Tram Kangaroo” by Mike Maka. One very large kangaroo hops along beside an old abandoned Melbourne tram (route 19, which runs along Sydney Road) in this dystopian future scene.

below: A closer look …

below: Not such an old building this time.. on the side of the Savers store is a mural by Danielle Weber. A pair of hands is trying to pull back the gray wall to reveal a tropical scene hiding behind it.

below: Zatira (aka Katherine Gailer). has used a palette of vivid colours in this mural dedicated to Teresa Bruno, a well known local chef and owner of Zia Teresa Restaurant (Italian).

throw up type street art in Brunswock, abstract shapes and colours,

below: Protest type poster where the mayor is shielded from the people by layers of armed police. People are too mesmerized by what is on their screens to care.

below: Uprooted police cars.

below: “The colony will fail”.

Photos taken February 2025

AC/DC Lane

Posted on October 7, 2025 by Mary C

(and Duckboard Place)

AC/DC Lane was named for the Rock band of the same name. It has been a place for street art for many years, one of the first locations in central Melbourne.

below: Dominating the corner of the lane is Mike Makatron’s 3D sculpture of AC/DC band member, Bon Scott bursting through the wall.

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne

below: Melbourne in 3D

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, The word Melbourne in gold letters, beside a drawing of a ballerina

below: In the bottom corner, RIP Malcolm Young, another member of AC/DC. The text in the word bubble is “C’mon Saint Peter, how many bloody times you gonna make me play Hell’s Bells before you let me through the gates mate?”

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, portraits of musicians at the end of the alley

below: Fintan Magee’s painting of a man carrying a tree towers over the end of the alley.

below: Taking selfies with Malcolm Young.

below: Steen Jones painted this tall Melbourne mural with the red roses.

below: Andy Warhol with paint splatters

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, portrait of Andy Warhol with paint splatters

below: A printed discourse on reality that starts with: “Realities can be controlled through the altered perception of real monocultrial [sic] relationships. This undeniable truth is self-evident through seeing mind’s eye. You will never be real, and in turn, that verifies your existence.” Think of it what you want.

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, typed text, with scribbles in black and yellow on top

below: A boy, a girl, and a dog going for a walk, by VKM,

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, stencil of two kids walking a dog,

below: Three more posters, two female and one male, all in vibrant colours. On the left is a purple haired, and very sad, woman by Vasso. Next to her is the green haired smoker by YAYA and on the right is an interesting woman with great red sunglasses but I have no idea who created that picture.

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, 3 paste ups, all of heads, two female, one male,

below: Love is love, and many others including a little Robbo-t

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, stickers and paste ups includng a robbo-t, and love is love words,

below: Rock on! Elvis Emu (by John Murray) and the red dino. What you can’t tell from this picture, is that the emu is just over 6 feet tall (i.e. a little taller than the average man). There are now many wonderful emus all over Melbourne!

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne including an emu dressed like Elvis Presley with rhinestone covered white jacket and big sunglasses

below: Neftnik’s blue woman reading an orange book while smoking her pipe.

below: A blue girl in a flowery dress and a blue bunny rabbit, more blueness from Neftnik.

below: Christmas street art! Lots of Santa Clauses and even a reindeer or two.

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, Christmas theme street art, Santa Claus, snowflakes, reindeer,

below: … and the festive season continues… with Batman delivering presents down chimneys. This is one of many places in Melbourne that were “decorated” for Christmas, see “A Christmas collection of friends” for more pictures.

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, Christmas theme street art, Santa Claus, snowflakes, reindeer, batman, tweet cat with balloons,

below: Salvador Dali looking a little surreal beside another blue person by Neftnik.

below: Carmadymnd’s little diamond shaped mosaic

street art, small piece, diamond shaped made with mosaic tiles and glass beads,

below: by French artist, Vale,

below: She leap frogs over, by JAH

below: “You don’t deserve all the bad things you say to yourself” beside a blue eyed woman by Jover. Muttley snickers in the bottom corner.

You don't deserve all the bad things you say to yourself text on a sticker, also a paste up by Jover of woman's face, with blue eyes,

below: Michael Caine looks a little bored by it all.

portrait of Michael Caine, black and white photo, on poster, as a paste up in AC DC lane.

below: Lumpkin definition: A blundering fool; A clumsy and often stupid person.

urban art in AC DC lane in Melbourne, cutout letters form the word lumpkin

below: Alice falls. The Queen of Hearts along with the two of clubs and other cards fall with her.

below: “I yam what I yam,” I’m Popeye the sailor man. It looks like he’s still eating his spinach.

below: Asian woman with a fan

below: Keep calm and plant a tree.

below: “Lets laugh while we still can” by Loui Jover

below: A very strange looking slightly abstract man, also by Jover

below: More contributions to the alley from Vasso and Jover

street art in ACDC lane, central Melbourne, stickers and paste ups,

below: “Always learn” along with “We don’t need more we need to be more”.

urban art in AC DC lane in Melbourne, paste up by Jover of woman's head but instead of facial features, has text that says we don't need more, we need to be more. another sticker that says always learn

below: Rocket man, literally, on guitar

Photos taken February 2025

A Christmas collection of friends

Posted on September 24, 2025 by Mary C

The previous post, Covering a yellow door, showcased some slaps seen in Baptist Place, a lane in Melbourne. They were created by a variety of artists from a number of different countries. You will find that many of the same artists appear in this post mostly because this post features a different section of Baptist Place. Here the graffiti is Christmas themed (more or less).

below: Holiday sharing – a little Wall Lilo figure is giving a candy to the long nosed elf (by liAXrt). A Stoeyes drawn woman in fur lined blue hat and matching mitts has a red box with wise words written on it – “le chocolat fait rétrécir les jeans” (chocolate makes jeans shrink).

many small Christmas themed paste ups on a yellow wall in Melbourne, Baptist Place,

below: This koala is ready for a Christmas party with his festive red hat and a pair of balloons. Another little Wall Lilo figure is dancing on the head of a very stern looking fellow (by Atelier Waladou). Maybe this will put him in the Christmas spirit?

below: Father Christmas, or Jolly Old St. Nick, in a long blue robe, by liAXrt as well as more candies! As to why Father Christmas carries a staff with a skull on it, anyone have any ideas?

below: A bird by Darwinagain in red, white, and blue, atop a happy Christmas tree. Dreaming pleasant dreams beside the tree are two sleeping girls – perhaps dreams of sugar plum fairies or of a red-nosed reindeer leading a sled through the winter sky. (Girls are by Belaets)

below: A kangaroo with a red hat also wants to join the party.

below: A cute little yellow creature with a tall blue and white striped hat riding bareback on a brown animal with antlers (by Nevoul Art)

below: That’s quite a big bubble that she’s blowing!

below: Two little elf feet poke out from under the tree (is it a tree? or an elf in a costume?). This furry squirrel not has has a festive red Santa hat and a lot of balloons, but he’s also wearing the cutest little Christmas booties! (by Tweet). And there’s the Grinch too!

christmas themed graffiti, squirrel by tweet streetart wearing a red hat and red boots with holly on them, carrying a bunch of balloons, also the grinch wearing a Santa hat,

below: Merry Pokemon Christmas! .. and a skull, for some reason, by Loui Jover.

graffiti on a yellow wall, a blue pokeman creature with blue cap with white pompom and a blue scarf, also a black and white drawing of a skull by Loui Jover

below: A blue butterfly tattoo, also by Loui Jover

Photos taken February 2025

Eyes on the Streets

and feets on the ground. Graffiti, street art and murals seen while wandering the streets and alleys of our colourful world.

Category Archives: Melbourne

Warburton Lane

Black and White, and a little bit more

Collingwood (Melbourne) portraits

Rankins Lane (Melbourne)

Austral Lane

Uniacke Court

Higson Lane, downtown Melbourne

Brunswick

AC/DC Lane

A Christmas collection of friends