radical futures

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Mary C

Radical Futures,
a street art collaboration in Stevenson Lane, Melbourne

radical futures, part of a series of drawings, this is the title frame, man in gas mask carrying a clear cube box on his back. In the box is a tree with leaves on it.

no flags, no fights, drawing as part of a series,

global spring - the title of a frame in a series titled radical futures, a street art collaboration in Melbourne.

however possible - the title of a frame in a series titled radical futures, a street art collaboration in Melbourne.

lie to me - the title of a frame in a series titled radical futures, a street art collaboration in Melbourne.

seek the truth, the title of a frame in a series titled radical futures, a street art collaboration in Melbourne.

final frame in a series for a street art collaboration, credits are written here as by Lily, Sally, Kat, Andrew, Diana, Mark, James, Merv, Sam and M.P.F. Dec '15

Union Lane, Melbourne

Posted on January 11, 2016 by Mary C

Union Lane is a short alley in downtown Melbourne and like a lot of lanes in Melbourne, there is some street art on the walls. Here is a selection:

on a grey metal door in an alley, a simplistic painting of a chubby black boy wearing a white shirt and holding a bunch of white, pink, and red balloons, some of the balloons are drifting away.

a multi coloured face painting in an alley that has had stickers added to it. The word beside the face is blender

5 old cassette tapes are mounted on a wall and then covered with spray paint as part of a street art piece in Melbourne

A grey man's face street art painting in Union Lane in Melbourne
street art in a lane of a man's face in orange, he has a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. A large orange tag (only partially seen) is across his forehead

a balaclava mounted on a wall in an alley in such a way that it looks like a face, covered in pink and gold spray paint as part of a street art piece

In Union Lane, Melbourne, on a wall, a drawing of buddha's face with the words to Hare Krishna written beside it, along with "be happy"

Two wheatpaste pictures of women. On the left is a woman in a head scarf with the name Malala Yousafai written below. On the right is another woman in a head scarf and a thought bubble that says 'My purpose is to serve humanity'.

The head and neck of a creature with a beak, with a droopy melted pencil lying across it, plus words in a square that say bmd Noah Eva, plus of Bill Murray beside sign that says Bill Posters Prosecuted

a man's face wheatpaste in the foreground and a double metal guard rail mounted on a wall and covered with graffiti in the background

little monsters, green, pink and purple with big eyes and scared open mouths

street art painting of a woman's head, shoulder length black hair, sunglasses and also a peeling paper wheatpaste

white sticky tape face-like creation on the pavement

a wall in a laneway in Melbourne, on it are three things, a sign that says "Bill Posters Prosecuted", a paper wheatpaste of a silhouette of a naked woman, and a face in two colours - orange on one side and white on the other, with the name Tina written on it. The orange side has eye open and the white side has eye closed.

some Fitzroy murals

Posted on January 10, 2016 by Mary C

below: Adnate’s woman in blue near Johnston and Brunswick.

mural of two women, three stories high,

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below: Astronaut surfing Hokusai’s Great Wave at Napier and St. David streets

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below: Praying mantis

street art of a praying mantis on the side of a wall

below: Suited up lion on safari with his bunny beside him.

mural of lion (person's body, lion's head) holding a machine gun and standing beside a person with a white rabbit head and pink ears

below: Face among the grasses.

in an alley, mural of a person's face, looking over his/her shoulder at the street

below: Dog and men

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mural of two men's faces in grey tones, with tags on the bottom portion

below: Harlem Globetrotters, right and left sections of the same mural.

mural of the Harlem globetrotters basketball team bouncing basketballs

mural of Harlem globetrotters basketball team crowded into a red, white and blue bus.

smug on Wood Street, Melbourne

Posted on January 9, 2016 by Mary C

There is an interesting mural on Wood street in Fitzroy by street artist smug.

view of a street, houses with a mural on it, a man from the shoulders up

view of a mural by smug on Wood street in Melbourne, pink background, a man, a teddy bear and a kitten along with some wooden blocks and some marbles.

part of a larger mural - a teddy bear sitting behind three wooden blocks. Some of the stuffing is coming out of the bear and one of his eyes has popped out.

part of larger mural by smug in Melbourne, a kitten with an eye patch, standing in front of a table with marbles on it.

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between Brunswick and Jewell stations

Posted on January 9, 2016 by Mary C

One of my previous posts was about the street art that I saw as I walked north from Brunswick train station towards Anstey. Today’s post is a result of a walk south from Brunswick to Jewell station.

below: Piano teeth guy by goodie

street art painting of a young man's face in profile, instead of teeth he has a piano keyboard

below: On the bike path, a collaboration between Taylurk, Shida, Twoone and Eno painted on the side of Acustico Cafe on Union Street.

mural on the side of a two storey building of a woman lying on her side. A black bird is sitting on her shoulder. There is a yarn covered bike rack in front

below: There were a number of these little pink creatures along the bike path too.

grey concrete wall with graffiti on it, large JJ in pink, a man's head, a green tag, railway tracks are in the foreground.

below: “Long time no see” Mike W.

street art painting in grey tones of two guys meeting, thumbs together, both with silly grins on their faces. One has black afro hair and the other has long stick up in the air hair.

below: Oh no! The zebra has fallen behind the rubbish bins!

A street art painting in black and white of a zebra lying in the ground with its feet in the air. A line of green rubbish bins is in front of the zebra and partially obscures it.

below: anti-church sentiment high on a wall.

poster graffiti high on a wall of a picture of a cathedral with the words "Tear it down. He's not coming"

below: A bright pink welcoming door amongst the graffiti.

A lot of graffiti on a red brick wall. A door is in the middle and it has been painted pink. large black and pink letters are painted in it that say Oh Hi. The O in Oh is a happy face. The i in Hi is an arm and hand.

below: Yes! Be awesome. Stay awesome.

sign at a railway crossing that says Stop on Red Signal. below it someone has posted a sign that says Please be awesome.

below: There were a lot of these ISIT stickers. Not very creative. I have included a picture of this one mostly to give you some idea of the look of the railway tracks and bike path along this stretch.

stickers covering a fence post, also spray paint in orange and pink. A white rectangular sticker with ISIT printed on it. In the background, slightly out of focus, is a pedestrian bridge over railway tracks

Two tiny little arrows attached to a telephone pole. Both of them point downwards. One is red and the other is red and turquoise.

concrete wall with tags, tea, zeske, smeumbl, posh boys. Plus black and white wheatpaste of two men kissing.

below: A bunch of balloons by Fintan Magee. It was probably part of a larger mural that has been partially painted over

street art of a lot of ballons by Fintan Magee

below: This is what the wall looks like now.

street art with balloons by Fintan Magee that were probably part of a large mural that has since been painted over with large grey and blue tags, kires and something else

below: Still hanging in there

paper graffiti of a person hanging from a window sill (which is real), person is paper. It has started peeling away

below: Two junky creatures made from trash.

a junky project sentinel creature on a pole. small body

nailed to a wooden telephone pole is a little creature made from a flattened pop can, another metal label and two bottle caps for eyes.

The previous post was about these junky projects so if you scroll down a bit you will find more junky examples.

junky recycles

Posted on January 8, 2016 by Mary C

Made from empty cans and bottles, bottle tops, and other pieces of rubbish, these little critters are on poles and walls all over Melbourne. They are often just above eye level so don’t forget to look up! [UPDATED: I have added a few more junkys that I’ve seen since first posting this.]

below: Three junkys camouflaged on Hosier Lane

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below: A black triangular junky amongst friends.

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below: On the shoulders of giants

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below: An empty wild something can with two round rusty bottle top eyes.

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below: Coca-cola junky with some clay pieces behind Legacy House, Drewery Lane

A coke can junky on an exterior wood beam in Drewery Lane, Melbourne, along with some small clay pieces

below: Hung on pole with a hanger on Brunswick Rd near Sydney St.

A junky creation nailed to a wooden power line pole with two bottle cap eyes and a broken black plastic hanger as a backbone
below: Like a bird in a cage, this winged junky is behind bars.

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below: Two junkys, and one even has waving arms and bendy legs.

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below: Mr. Blue Eyes

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below: And almost the kitchen sink too.

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below: Long floppy arms to catch you with.

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below: So hot food but with downcast eyes.

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below: This junky is measuring her reach.

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below: Floating above the cones.

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below: Call this one Jack, he’s made of Tennessee Whiskey

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More information about Junky Projects

Collingwood murals

Posted on January 7, 2016 by Mary C

Some of the murals that I have seen in Collingwood (part of Melbourne) in the past few days.

below: Refugee by Fintan Magee

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below: I am having trouble finding out the artist’s name. Skoutut? Skoukit?

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below: It says “Viva Frida”on the hat but I can’t read the signature.

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below: by Nomad?

Nomad street art painting of a woman in profile with long black hair and red flowers in her hair.

I am not sure if the above is by Nomad because when I was researching him online,
I found this photo:

Melbourne mural by Nomad

below: by 90 degrees

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below: by Lucy Lucy and Slicer, both of AWOL Crew

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below: by Nicola Jones

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Flinders Court faces

Posted on January 6, 2016 by Mary C

Flinders Court is a little alley in downtown (CBD) Melbourne with some interesting street art paintings that haven’t been tagged over or defaced.

street art in a Melbourne alley, a pink girl with long eyelashes and almost cat like feaures, looking very sad, on pink background.
a realistic looking street art painting of a young woman's face in blues. A young man is standing beside painting, in a Melbourne alley

a young man painted by Goodie, with a piano keyboard and some empty bottles, a green creature by stola (Stoza?) is also in the picture

A purple cat in front of many playing cars that are hearts and diamonds. In its hand is a spray paint can, coming out from the can is the word BOSS in turquoise, the words seem to be going into a large mouth, all one street art piece in a Melbourne lane.

a purple boney creature street art painting on a wall in a lane in Melbourne

another face by goodie, that looks like it is missing a few teeth, and also looks like it's been squashed under a window

white drawing of a cats face on blue paper

world wide warehouse

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Mary C

The World Wide Warehouse is on the corner of Easey and Budd Streets in the Collingwood area of Melbourne. It’s not actually a warehouse now, it’s the home of PBS 106.7 FM radio. The lower part of it is covered with posters for events as well as a lot of street art and graffiti. A lot of the paper pieces are peeling away or torn.

The side of World Wide Warehouse, a two storey brick bulding that is quite long. The lower level is cover with graffiti and street art except where the windows are

below: A squid, a hand and many symbols – star of David, diamond, peace and female to name a few. There is also a key to something.

wheatpaste, black on white, graffiti on a brick wall that has some green spray paint on it, drawing is of a squid with a head that looks like a hand with five fingers. there are other symbols on it too, a peace sign, a key, a star of David, a diamond, the symbol that equals female

below: professional loser on the right

graffiti on a brick wall, sync written in large block black letters, a black outlined white face, and a poster that says professional loser.

below: Christmas on Easey Street

A green cutout in the shape of a Christmas tree attached high up on a telephone pole. red circles are attached to it to look like tree ornaments.

below: Duster yelling with only half a face. The other guy has only half a face, and come to think of it, so does the pink cat.

torn wheatpaste street art of a bare chested man, arm bent at the elbow, holding something in his hand. He is yelling but half of his face is missing

below: paper bunny on a faded head and a few faint words that look like sex

a wheatpaste bunny, white with black outline on a wall with a faded outline of a head in profile, otherwise painted black and blue

below: Do you even. He sees with his camera, not his eyes.

A small relief sculpture of a man's torso painted yellow, headless, large muscles, with hands clasped together in front of his chest holding onto a camera. The words Do you even are written under one elbow.

below: toys and topless but no squares or hippies. Everyone’s happy.

wheatpaste graffiti on a wall. A toy dump truck and a toy truck with a toy rabbut driving it. A poster of two topless women with the words not squares or hippies

A drawing of an older man with a beard, wearing a white hat, on a piece of paper attached to a brick wall

below: The street art on the walls at the back of the warehouse, by the parking lot.

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mural on a wall, the top is black sky, the bottom is a scene of people, a city and 2 flying saucers or UFO's. Not realistic looking, cartoonish

Caledonian Lane

Posted on January 4, 2016 by Mary C

Caledonian Lane, downtown Melbourne.

A lot of the street art has been tagged over and a lot of the paper pieces are peeling,
but there are still a few interesting pieces in this alley.

buildings in an alley with graffiti all over them. A man is sitting on the kerb in front of one of the buildings

street art on a wall in an alley, brown man's face with the words "Life must be preparation for the transition to another dimension"

two young men sitting on a kerb smoking, they're sitting under a street art painting of a large mouth with a long tongue

A small picture of a woman's face on a four piece puzzle on a wall in an alley, under a no parking sign

street apinting of a head, person with curly white and yellow hair that looks like the head of an animal, brown face, on a blue background, on a wall between two doors.

Purple building with the words Everything has beauty but not everyone can see it. The wall has a large tag LouisV written on it. Tukka Smick is written over the door.