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Mirka Lane

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….. a small narrow lane filled with street art murals, many of them by female artists.

below: A stunning blue portrait by Juzpop

street art mural in Mirka Lane, St. Kilda, blue portrait of a woman by Juzpop

below: Mirka Lane is a ‘U’ shaped lane in St. Kilda, Melbourne.

street sign for Mirka Lane, city of Port Philip
street art mural in Mirka Lane, St. Kilda, portrait in bright colours

below: Juzpop’s red woman with a hat on the left. On the right is a ‘colder’ coloured woman in purples and blues by Tayla Broekman.

street art mural in Mirka Lane, St. Kilda, two womens portraits, Juzpop's red woman with a hat on the left. On the right is a 'colder' coloured woman in purples and blues by Tayla Broekman

below: One of the walls in Mirka Lane.

One of the walls covered with street art, Mirka Lane

below: Misshapen characters, lumpy and pink, that seem to float around, by Jaz Mishap (aka Jaz Miu)

street art mural in Mirka Lane, St. Kilda,

below: Manda Lane is an artist that specializes in very realistic flowers (and other plant life).

street art mural in Mirka Lane, St. Kilda, white flowers by Manda Lane

below: Niqui Toldi has painted a woman with short pink hair that matches both the pink stripe in her top and her fingernails

street art mural in Mirka Lane, St. Kilda,

below: More blue people – these pink-haired women are the work Bronik.

street art mural in Mirka Lane, St. Kilda, these pink-haired women with blue skin were painted by Bronik

below: A green and purple chair by Giovanna Da Silva.

street art mural in Mirka Lane, St. Kilda, A green and purple chair by Giovanna Da Silva

below: Another look at the wall… From the other end this time.

wall with urban art

below: All in blue, “I’ll be back”

large blue mural

below: Circular calligraphy, also in blue.

large blue mural, circles of calligraphy
street art

below: One Love with happy flowers

street art mural with flowers and grass and words that say one love

below: Bright red mushrooms in the grass

part of a larger mural,Bright red mushrooms in the grass palm trees in the background

below: Caroline Lejeune painted this wild looking over-sized eye atop a skinny naked body that even has a long tail. Naked except for the high heel shoes.

mural by Caroline Lejeune, wild looking over-sized eye atop a skinny naked body that even has a long tail. Naked except for the high heel shoes.
street art, white flowers, orange woman

below: Fox, by Tayla Broekman

mural of a fox by Tayla Broekman
street art

below: Girl with a red bandana or kerchief around her neck, by Stephman, aka Stephanie Mannerheim

Stephman mural of a young girl who is crouching, wearing shorts and a red kerchief around her neck

Photos taken March 2025

Murals on Hoardings, Cuenca Ecuador

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In Jaunary 2018 a large section of the old historic part of Cuenca was a construction site. The plywood hoardings around the site were painted with street art murals. I have credited the artist whenever possible but unfortunately most of the work was unsigned.

below: A Chicho rat

street art of a rat holding a yellow object, by Chicho

street art on hoardings around a construction site

below: Hambre translates to hunger.

mural on hoardings with historic church in the background, word hambre with 4 objects, a clown head, armchair, watermelon piece, and a red balloon on a string

below: Fourteen candles

mural with 14 lit candles in a row, with their reflection across the bottom. Candles are purple on the bottom, yellow in the middle and white on top.

below: White clothes; red heads

below: Wide eyed face with many teeth and an angular nose

mural on hoardings, a large rectangular horizontal black face with white features,

below: Cuenca street scene

a man walking down a street in Cuenca Ecuador with hoardings surrounding a construction site on one side of the street, the hoardings have murals painted on them

below: San Pancho re-arranged

blue background mural with crowd of white faces

hoardings, a mural that has been re-arranged incorrectly, hoarding panels are in wrong order

below: passing the peacock feather from top to bottom

mural on hoardings, peacock feather being passed from top half of person to bottom half of person
a young man in a hoodie is walking past murals on hoardings, picture on mural is of a person wearing purple shoes, Cuenca Ecuador

below: Shopping with diegumberrto aka Diego Molina,

detailed mural in mostly yellow of objects on shelves, a man appears to be shopping, has word extra on front of his baseball cap

below: She’s kneeling in the garden wearing mis-matched earrings and a pink sun hat; she is surrounded by a book, dolls, watermelon, lots of flowers and even a skull.

mural of a young girl in a pink hat and with mis matched ear rings, kneeling outside with dolls, plants, and other small objects like a piece of watermelon, a small white skull with an arrow through it,

below: Pieces of clothing flying everywhere

below: Honeybee and gummi bears

below:Flores en el camino, signed Anuska?

below: ideas, thoughts, and dreams

below: At the corner

below: More hoardings

below: Rearranged where workmen are busy.

on Tallinn walls

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Tallinn is the capital city of the small Baltic country Estonia.  I was only there for a short time but I did find some street art in the old town and in Kalamaja.

below: The young person on the right is the work of @minaJaLydia.  I you look closely, there are two tiny faces to the right of the knees.

street art by MinaJaLydia on a concrete wall, two pieces, a pasteup of an elaborate abstract drawing of a face and hands as well as mushrooms and other plant life. the other is a young person sitting on a chair, with 4 legs hanging from the chair.

below: I am calling this one, The Warrior and his Social Media Hedgehog.  They are the work of Edward von Longus

a large muscular partially clad man with a weapon over his shoulder, on a grey brick wall, a small hedgehog is working on a laptop beside him. graffiti

below: Close up of the hedgehog. It needs time in the limelight too.

graffiti, a small grey and white hedgehog is working on a laptop

below: Whatever he was writing on the wall is long gone. This is another work by Edward von Longus.

painting of a blond boy with a red T shirt and blue jeans is facing a wall and drawing on it.

below: A green and blue planet Earth between two animals (a cat and a ?), by multistab

street art by multistab. A blue and green small plaet earth in between two large black and white creatures. One looks like a grinning cat, the other might be a cat but migh be something else

below: A couple of couples by Linna Sokk but with the theme of domestic violence.

two poster pasteups by #koos Both are of a couple, in one they are kissing

below: Something’s stuck to his forehead… looks like a sheep to me.

a large sticker with a realistic picture of a skull on it, on a small electrical box beside a building

below: Not your average Easter Bunny!

painting of a large agressive stylized rabbit in grey top and white shirts, a carrot in its mouth, running on two legs, one arm upraised.

below: A multi talented, multi handed,  multi tasking elephant!

an elephant with 4 arms and two legs, bare feet, spray paint cans in its hands,

below: This wall is difficult to see because of the fence – it is part of the old fortress/prison that is no longer open to visitors.

street art on a wall that is hard to see because it is behind a fence

below: The next two are by the same artist, Lume, of LDK crew who is from Naples Italy.

stylized flowers and leaves in pastel colours, line drawings, on a pale yellow wall

stylized flowers and leaves in pastel colours, line drawings, on a salmon coloured wall

below: In case you can’t read it, the sign that Darth Vader is holding says: “Help me.  I need $$$ to build a death star.”

a few small piece of graffiti, a yellow face, a black stencil of a man's head and shoulders, a stencil of Darth Vader, and some scribbles,

on a wall beside w window, two line drawings of animal creatures, on dinosaur like and the other a small round thing

a big bee on a yellow wall, street sign that says Salme

two drawings, one is Jerry the cartoon mouse and the other is

three stencils on a wall, an orange womans face, a blue diamond and a purple man with sunglasses on

a paste up of a person's head wrapped in an old fashioned bandage that ties under the chin

doorway shaped and sized line drawing graffiti in purple with turquoise highlights, a man's head and neck