Tasmania the "state of art"

Tasmania's graffiti dynamic is complex and diverse. Its geographical isolation is a driving force for new styles and concepts. Sure we may live in the age of technology where the internet is at our fingertips, but artists tend to follow and watch their own local scene. Devonport absorbs (probably because of the Spirit of Tasmania) a significant amount of artwork for the towns size. Launceston is a very progressive graffiti/street art town with the longest official legal wall I have ever seen. Hobart sits down near the bottom with a inner city graffiti scene which would rival much bigger Sydney. Tasmania probably has the highest graffiti to population ratio of any state in Australia. 

Temporary art

Leave a shipping container and a white trailer near a graffiti hub and it will be painted the next day. Someone will tag it and then a throw-up appears which is capped by a piece. Just across the road is the Tepid Baths with over 16 years of accumulated graffiti. Abandoned Tepid Baths video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rb09OroNWu4  

Ikoe crew

The stencil of the young kid with the boxing gloves is a metaphor for the many kids fighting to make their mark in the competitive graffiti scene.  

 Queen Tash?? 

Tassie freight train graffiti

In Tasmania about 50km South of Launceston lies the important town of Conara. Conara was initially a overnight rest stop on the now midland hwy for coaches between Hobart and Launceston. The railway was developed and passenger services ran daily, until the entire passenger train network in Tasmania was shut down in 1978. Conara is the junction of the Fingal (coal) and Hobart-Launceston railway lines. It is now used as a rail siding.