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.
below: Robobop is Robert Scholten – ink drawing of a mask in two pieces.
below: Kyobi is also in Austral Lane.
Photos taken February 2025
Stickers, paste-ups and posters seen around Naples.
below: Love letters pasted to the wall, each decorated with a little red or pink heart. So many words and expressions such as – “Dillo con volo fiori” (Say it with flying flowers), “Non ti ho detto mai quello. Che me fai.” (I never told you that, what are you doing to me?)
below: “Yes I know My Way” by Renzo Mezzetti on the right and a blue woman smelling a blue flower on the left.
below: Someone’s not happy ….
below: On the left is an old cyop & kaf face – there are a lot of paintings by Cyop & Kaf and I blogged about them previously (Cyop & Kaf in Naples)
below: With a red heart in its mouth, by RNZ aka Zenro. Also, in the top left corner, the faceless photographer, “the photographer all over”, this is mrbt62
below: Here stands Viracocha, the supreme creator deity in pre-Incan Andean mythology.
below: Surrealism? Or just a bizarre imagination?
below: Completely covered
below: Words around a door
Lady, [words behind air conditioner] .. veramente stassera in connanti niente appena arrivate bendalevi visivede which google translate says in English, “Actually tonight in cash nothing as soon as you arrive blindfolded you will see”.
signora siete 9 uasi e lo sarete senon portate stassa….. The bottom part is illegible so the fact that google translate says the first part means, “Madam, you are almost 9 and you will be if you don’t bring this” is also meaningless….Maybe the picture of the man with a gun to his head is part of it all!
below: Playing card graffiti by Francesco Di Martino, and a melting globe head by Lumen.
below: Trallalla’s drawing of a Bishop wearing a pirate hat and eye patch.
below: Trallalla is also responsible for the “Save the Mermaids” paste-ups.
below: Another heavy (pregnant?) mermaid, this time with drawings that look like they have been done by children.
below: Graffiti Propaganda and Fishes Invasion (Merioone)
below: A prickly cactus? or a hairy hand? holding an anatomical heart .
Photos taken February 2024
Baptist Place, Melbourne
One small section of a yellow wall.
below: him: I’ve waited a long time to carry you over the threshold, her: Finally a tent of our own!
below: It doesn’t take many lines to make a compelling portrait.
below: Two simple but cute puppies selling their wares.
below: Two Marilyns
below: upper: “Without leaving my House I know the whole universe.” Panda Philosophy. lower: T-bonez rides with trp613 (aka Ty Pro), Visual Noise & Urban Ninja Squadron.
below: A little dragon creature, by stenandoli
below: The sad grey man with the very long arms and bad posture is another creation of stenandoli. In the middle is an Australian White Ibis by tweet – I wonder what it is trying to say to the cat?
below: A foxy lady, by Susi Foxy Art, aka Susi Luard.
below: Carried away by a yellow balloon…..
below: left: “T Phobia is rooted in White Supremacy” with a purple flower. middle: “Don’t be dick”, with a yellow flower. right: He seems to be holding a fish. Seems fishy?
below: Look out everyone, there’s an angry looking Blastoise pokemon character coming your way!
below: Think!
Photos taken February 2025
Hannging on walls in Seville. by Adolfo Arenas Alonso. Scenes in run down rooms with peeling wallpaper. Once grand but now not so much. Religious icons and figures in paintings and sculptures look down on the human characters. Characters that either impossibly skinny or overweight. Crosses on the walls. Indolent. Slovenly. A macabre sense of place and time verging on the profane.
below: The Matador and the Insolents
below: Ars Amandi, The Dreamers (Ars Amandi is Latin, ‘The art of loving’)
below: Volaveront (Latin, translates to “They will fly). The Hall
below: Verba Volant (The words fly) and Le Grand Stiletto
below: Sacrum (Sacred)
below: Scripta Manent (Texts remain)
Graffiti and street art seen while walking along the Seine in Paris.
below: Woof woof! Yes Paris!
below: Multi-coloured by Tremos, Peruvian artist living in France
below: At Voie sur Berge (Passerelle Léopold Sedar Senghor), in the 7ème, is this long mural by Michael Beerens titled “Plastique” – it is a comment on the state of our oceans.
The title is French but the word in the mural is English, “plastic”.
below: Honey bear by fnnch. There are quite a few of these around Paris and I blogged about them in June of 2022, Honey Bears.
Swallows in flight; swallows with little white halos.
below: A “My dog sighs” sticker beside a portrait of a woman with very orange hair.
below: A small black and white cat by Copycat, an “anonymeows streetartist” who has painted hundreds of cats.
below: Another Copycat cat…
below: ….. and yet another, on a multi coloured background
below: Another Copycat cat… this time it has a companion, another orange headed woman. She is surrounded by an intricate design and is the work of OJA.
below: Two faded OJA pieces
below: Re-using many, many can lids – beer cans, pop cans, drink cans.
below: Are three heads better than one?
below: A sassy blue monkey with a pink heart bum.
below: Mr. Djoul is an artist who creates mosaics, especially of this little green-eyed alien creature
below: Invader mosaic? And in the lower left corner, bright red hair and words that say “My weariness in longing”
below: From the description beside the photo: “Ho–[torn] made a famous photograph of a dying soldier which became anti war icon since 1930s. Later it was proven to be a staged image on which nobody really died… From Russian diaries of Krapiva Netleva” [krapiva is the Russian word for nettle]
below: Four photographs on a wall
below: On a post overlooking the river.
below: This guy gets around! Nourf, by Pimax
below: More slaps and stickers. A Mohawk-type hair style with A2, Natreel (a clothing brand), Tom Azria (faded), and Venus in a witch’s hat.
below: Abstract shapes and colours. Trying to look 3-dimensional.
Photos taken March 2023
As you might know, every once in a while I walk down Graffiti Alley in Toronto to see if there is anything new that might be of interest. This blog post is a result of last week’s walk….
below: Orange hair with attitude – “You don’t look smart because you have a beard!” by NYC based City Kitty. In the upper right corner all the way from the UK, a D7606 old style telephone featuring David Bowie… call a friend.
below: Havana to Toronto and of course, 2 + 2 always = 5.
below: A diverse group of faces
below: Many more faces but mostly a frowny face man. Every time I look at this picture I think of Poilievre but that opinion might get me into trouble!
below: Purple with green wings and a golden halo – horus and tuffytats (aka Trevor Goodwin) be dreaming again?
below: “Tell them louder”
below: Yarn squares crocheted and attached to a pole with Urban Ninja Squadron’s T-bonez looking on.
below: No Dumping stickers
below: Playing on his knees. That’s quite the instrument. Cuba on his shoulder.
below: And a similar man with curly hair and beard, but this time in pink.
below: A blue legless and armless robot along with a conehead type creature with a big mouth, both at 733.
below: FPmonkey – a young woman with long purple hair tied up with green flowers. A single red tear drop on her cheek.
below: Uber5000’s marine life is still a colourful fixture in the alley.
below: Nearby, his Toronto/Canada themed mural has not lasted as well. A couple of yellow birdies are still visible.
below: Spiderman and the Spiderverse – some of the mural remains untouched but much of it has been tagged over
below: En masse has a number of pieces in the area including three metal boxes on the sidewalk – this is part of one of those boxes. Almost all of their work is in black and white.
below: The tears of a clown when there’s no one around….
below: She’s green.
below: Tiny finds on a blue wall. Princess Lays Chicken (Princess Laya Chicken?)
below: remnants of Black Lives Matter, and a new purple flower on the door.
below: A scrawny cat scribbled on yellow paint. In case it is difficult to see, the sticker (or paste up) on the pole is an old television set with text near the bottom that says, “HAHA”. Interpret it as you wish (as usual).
below: Rubbish in the lane (maybe just a spring clean up needed? … not that the alley is usually clean LOL)
Photos taken March 2024
This post also appears in As I Walk Toronto blog
What looks to be an abandoned house in Guayaquil that has some street art and graffiti on it. Some nice painting, some scribbles. Animals too – cat, dog, mouse, and bird.
Near the Vatican is saw a small collection of pasteups:
below: Game Over on the Cash Machine by Luther Posca
below: The remains of a big nosed character by K2M with a red heart along with a black and white version of Edvard Munch’s “Scream” but with a man in a white shirt and black tie instead. Modern man’s turn to scream.
below: Similar to above but in better condition. K2M’s iconic character now has a pink heart and a version of “American Gothic” by Grant Wood has appeared beside the screaming man. Again, the man is dressed in a white shirt and black tie. Almost lost at the bottom are two stickers from Flat Heart.
These words were all found in Newtown, Sydney.
below: “Oh Ian I’ll bring the old box where the quiet lies and the time died.
Oh Ian I’ll bring it all for you to see – Ian”
em>and “How could he
below: “Oh Benita please don’t stick a knife into Linda.”
below: Kind? and P–? 2015
below: “He was a tag |a used kleenex | a big wreck – Latham”
below: “When people tell me to look on the bright side I take that as a tacit permission to murder them – Vivi”
below: “All is motion. Stillness is an imaginary state, future and past, the indoors and outdoors. We ‘the now’ merely a window through the pictures pass”
below: poetry in yellow
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Paste-ups seen on Artist Lane, Windsor (Melbourne) this past weekend.
Artist Lane runs parallel to Chapel St. between Green and Union streets, just north of Windsor station. It has the highest concentration of good street art that I have seen yet in Melbourne. I have too many pictures for one blog post. As a result, have divided it up into sections, paste-ups (paper), stencils, and paintings. Here are the paste-ups.
below: It’s twenty seconds into 11:50 somewhere in the world.
I wonder what time the alarm is set for?
below: A perfect afternoon to sit and watch the world go by.
below: Cans inside of cans inside of cans. Tin Babushka dolls.
below: Beware of wolves in sheep’s clothing
below: Spraying on a happy face.
below: Flying away. Spraying only where eagles dare.
below: In case of emergency, smile. Put on a happy face.
below: Many words. Many bent and leaning columns at the tipping point.
below: Hammer and sickly cover the globe.
below: This one is signed, by barek
below: Every T-shirt tells a story, of sailing ships and volcanoes about to blow.
below: Watching paint dry, or maybe just thinking about it.
below: The snail is printed on scrap paper? or is there significance to the fact that the original purpose of the paper was information about Julius Baer, a Swiss private financial company, and EMA Partners, a company that matches executives with international companies, also based in Switzerland.
below: with a sigh and a shrug.
below: Stop on red signal. If you look closely, you’ll see that there is more to it than that.
A lot of the above art was done by Phoenix, a Melbourne street artist.
More information about him can be found on his website
Eyes on the Streets 