Adelaide

Piece on residential wall abutting major road

Layers of paint

This is a wall next to the old outer circle railway line in Melbourne. Its one of the few decommissioned railway lines in the inner suburbs. It used to run from Fairfield to Alamein. The same route has now is used as a shared pathway. This wall is highly sought after surface. The surrounding fences are wooden which absorbs the graffiti paint (not desirable). As the timber deteriorates so does the quality of the paint. There us a real mix of work and most parts of the wall has been painted. 

Alamein.

 For further info on the railway http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Circle_Trail

Mural-town Sheffield, Tasmania

Sheffield in Northern Tasmania is a great town for anyone to visit. The major tourist attraction is the murals  (Town of Murals) for which it is famous for. The town of just over a 1,000 people have held an annual international mural festival since 2003. There is a competition with a theme of which the nine finalists proudly display their artwork in the park. 

This is an interesting mural of work. The depressing mood of the painting is created using dull-grey and black colours. Then there is the shinning, bright, graffiti piece which draws the viewers attention. This mural is made interesting because its taken graffiti and put it in a positive position amongst the bleak urban landscape. Behind the built up society is a distant natural environment separated by an impenetrable concrete wall.   

This is a classic. The mural is titled "No Demands Land" spin-off of Van Dieman's Land (the name of the island prior to being called Tasmania). It really goes to show the relaxed nature of the Tasmanian lifestyle. 

 This is a graffiti wall in Sheffield. The legality of painting this wall is very unclear. There is no formal declaration by the Kentish council that it is a legal wall.

 The other icon of Sheffield is the incredible backdrop of Mt Roland (1234 meters) which sits South of the town.

Back streets of Richmond

Melbourne is full of intricate laneways. Find a main road in the inner city-suburbs like Brunswick St, Nicholson St, High St or many others and go for a wander. Chances are you find a graffiti "littering the walls". More often then not you'll find more detailed works than what you find on the main streets. Laneways and alleys provide time for the artist to perfect a piece and take the time. Secluded spaces away from cops and angry wankers are a key part to Melbourne's Graffiti Culture.

Richmond throwie

Sydney Swagger

Utopian

Its a rare sight to see soft, feminine illustrations in the macho dominated graffiti culture. These characters depict the stereotypical thoughts of a  young, Western girl "I want a pony" or better "a unicorn". Its often refreshing to see work challenging the notion of traditional graffiti (where you have a name and you tag it to mark your territory). This work is different.... humble maybe where the artist remains anonymous with no signature attached.      

 Women represent a minority in "the industry" and many are more accustomed to street art where there is less competition and art is produced for the people, rather than graffiti being for graffiti artists. Strictly speaking this piece is graffiti with a contextual element of street art. The work utilizes the cooler, calm, colours of blues and green. The horse and unicorn have a sense of child-like, care-free joy!

Brick wall view

This character epitomizes life in a big city. The low eyes with bags underneath illustrates a combination of sadness and loneliness. It can be interpreted as "we have all the material wealth we dreamed for but what do we really want to do next?"   

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Stanmore, Sydney

Residential piece

Opposite the Mordialloc High School lies this legal piece. This is a well executed piece with a complex letter-form. It incorporates a stylized character which is cheekily admiring the piece. Nice use of a wide range of colours including non traditional fill of pink and light blue. 

Mordialloc

Old School

Its not often you across a piece as old as this, that's still kickin. This piece is dated 1986, which means it would be getting on to almost 30 years old. Over that time it survived the elements of wind, rain, sun, buffers and even other graff artists. Melbourne's scene started back in the early 1980's so this is effectively the work of graffiti pioneers. The piece shows the idolization of the aerosol can with a background of bubbles. The paint available now-days has improved in quality and a greater range of colours are now available. Nice work!

Bayswater Graffiti Wall timelaspe

Enmore, Sydney

Sydney has a different graffiti scene to Melbourne. It is the largest city by population in Australia however this is not reflected in the Sydney's graffiti. There is still a broad range of works. Sydney has a different architecture layout and appears to have less lane-ways then Melbourne and train walls are buffed frequently.

Sinch

 Brunswick