Backstreets of Brighton

Highway/Freeway graffiti in Melbourne is a relatively recent phenomenon. It kicked off across many arterial roads around 2010. Nowadays its full of tags, throw-up, elaborate pieces. The Eastern and Monash Freeways are plastered with graff. Drive west and the pieces are double storey stompers. The boundary is limitless (Sofles). Throw Pam the bird into the mix, who seemingly fly's around Melbourne and suddenly nothing is impossible and the limits shifts again. The level gets lifted and suddenly the whole scene is shaken up for a recalibration. Pam the bird is just mocking the city's ability to kid a lid on the graffiti scene. Painting The Westgate road signs and the Cheese-stick and everywhere else in-between. 

The train lines are central to the history and development of almost any graffiti scene world-wide. The freeway scene added this intersectionality with train lines. Crews have new territory to claim. Some Freeways follow train lines the classic being the Nepean Hwy and the Frankston & Sandringham line where you get the likes of crews like Criminally Insane. Alternatively The Eastern Fwy catches the Dandy/Pakenham, Belgrave and Glen Waverly lines. All of which have a long history of writers including the staunch and unwavering Kicking Some Ass and Midnight Rockers.  

Few flicks from Brighton. Good graffiti amongst the yuppified landscape.   

Freeway walls

In the last 5 or so years there has been a distinct rise in graffiti along highways and freeways particularly around Melbourne. Most track side train walls are taken and now writers are pushing further and further to new places. Nost and Pork are pioneering new spots regularly. This sets a precedent for other writers to put up in what was a socially unacceptable place. 

Yucks destroyed the Monash Fwy several years ago by painting repetitive throw-ups claiming several kilometres of wall space. As soon as someone capped one of his throw-ups he capped it back leaving a staunch message of territorial control. Yucks throw-ups have since been buffed. But he leaves a pioneering legacy.

rare sight to see double story pieces on the roadside

One of the older, more faded and now buffed artworks