Chambers Street Footscray

Posted on February 4, 2016 by Mary C

Chambers street is a short street near Footscray train station. It dead ends at the section of Nicholson street that is a pedestrian mall. It is like a lane in that no buildings front on to it. There is a small park part way along the street.

below: This picture appears in a previous post ‘Guerilla territory’ because the large paste-up is a work by baby guerilla. This building fronts on to Paisley street.

wall of an old red brick industrial building, 3 storeys high, covered with street art. Lower level is series of murals and above them is a large paste up by baby guerilla of a couple flying. A man is behind a woman and he is reaching for her foot as she is reaching for the roof of the building.

below: The murals and street art across the bottom of the building shown above.

a mural featuring a pink person in head carf and a blue person
below: the best Australian I know, signed by gee

mural of a person holding a messy sandwich in his hands, with some words that say: Born in Vietnam came by boat in 1981 (18 months old) lives in Footscray the best Australian I know
below: Stop violence against women

Stop Violence against women mural on a blue door
below: Stay calm and keep sarcastic

On a wood door that has been painted bright blue is a stencil in pink that says ' Stay calm, she "asked" for it
below: first piece, Medev

turquoise woman wearing a head scarf and holding on oil lamp. Signed in the corner as first piece Medev. pink border around the woman
below: junkies vs. yuppies

Green letters painted on a black door that say "We prefer our junkies to yuppies"

below: Shaibu’s story

A lot of words written on a wall. Brown letters, white brick wall.
below: It’s not very often I have to dodge a Maserati while taking pictures of street art!

a black maserati drives past of building with street art on it including a picture of a running person with an arm outstretched and it looks like she is reaching for the car
below: The more I look at this one, the creepier I think it is.

A horizontal mural on a wall with a door in the middle. A brown face on the door with two hands branching from it, each hand it holding a face.
below: maniacally letting loose the green paint

a green montrous face painted on a wall, with green paint flowing onto the pavement in front of it.

colourful mural

below: One Love – Footscray Love, mural to say welcome, painted by Tim Rollin

mural on a wall in Footscray Melbourne by Tim Rollin with the theme of One Love, Australians say welcome, featuring pictures of various kinds of people

Collins street women

Posted on January 31, 2016 by Mary C

Two large murals featuring women’s faces can been seen on Little Collins street just east of Exhibition street. Both were painted by street artist Rone. The most prominent mural is 12m high and can easily be seen from the street.

Large mural of a woman's head on a building, black and white and gray, one hand is touching her cheek.

below: Slightly back from the street is a smaller mural with the faces of three more women. Most of Rone’s work features women’s faces.

mural in grey tones of three women's heads on black background. Flower garden in front of them, city buildings behind them.

below: To me, it looks like she is trying to rub or scratch off the security camera.

close up of Large mural of a woman's head on a building, black and white and gray, one hand is touching her cheek.

day trip to Bendigo

Posted on January 16, 2016 by Mary C

There isn’t much street art in the town of Bendigo – or I was wasn’t in the right part of town. The five pictures below is all that I saw.

below: You’ve just been given the bird. Peace.

a white stencil on a blue wall, a dove in flight with an olive branch in its mouth. A hand and arm is made of the words "You have just been given the bird"

below: A supercalifragilistic stencil

black stencil on a light brown wall, Mary Poppins floating upwards with her open umbrella. Her trail is the word supercalifragiliciousexpialidocius.

below: Three women on walls.

black stencil on a stone wall of a woman's head, very large Afro hair style, smiling,

small paper wheatpaste of a blond woman on the door of a small metal box, with a padlock. The paper is peeling a bit and the rust from the box is also on the graffiti

Paper wheatpaste of a woman that is badly faded and peeled off. She is beside some purple spray paint.

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

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.

Two large faces painted high on a wall, the one on the left has a large tongue that is sticking out. Tagged Genie Yern, and yern genie.

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A green and white street art piece

paper wheatpastes on a wall. They are of men with parachute strings behind ad above them. They are peeling.

wheatpaste on a brick wall of a creature that looks like a goose with two arms and a face that is wrong

power people

Posted on January 3, 2016 by Mary C

Surrounding the CitiPower Collingwood power substation at the corner of Easey and Wellington streets is a large monochromatic mural. It is by Juddy Roller (a company specialising in street art and graffiti management) and it involved collaboration between street artists including Rone, Adnate, Mayo, Guido Van Helton and Askew.

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The script/writing on the mural was painted by Mayo.

monochromatic realistic portrait of a woman part of a larger mural painted on a wall surrounding a power substation in Melbourne. The woman has a ring in her nose
The portraits were by Askew, Rone, Guido and Adnate.

monochromatic realistic portrait of two women part of a larger mural painted on a wall surrounding a power substation in Melbourne

This mural was also made possible with the support of CitiPower Powercor, The Neighbourhood Justice Centre and City of Yarra.

monochromatic realistic portrait of a woman part of a larger mural painted on a wall surrounding a power substation in Melbourne. Long hair is covering one side of the woman's face

monochromatic realistic portrait of a woman part of a larger mural painted on a wall surrounding a power substation in Melbourne

monochromatic realistic portrait of a woman part of a larger mural painted on a wall surrounding a power substation in Melbourne. There are power lines in the background