Go visit Crush City if you find yourself in Brisbane. A small store made for artists. Plenty of paint on offer and with a legal wall just around the corner to practice your craft.
Showing posts with label Queensland. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Queensland. Show all posts
Monday, 28 April 2025
Monday, 23 December 2024
Brisbane-below ground
After a conversation at Cold Crush we found out there's only one legal graffiti wall in Brisbane. A tough ask in a city that wants paint and people don't appreciate it. Down in the secluded corners of the drain in Brisbane a couple of young writers paint in safety "its not worth the risk painting the streets." Brisbane's taken a hard-line stance on graffiti. Where the art flourishes in the laneways of Melbourne and even Hobart, Brisbane's culture is different. Freeways are rarely painted, here graffiti is replaced by bland landscape murals that sit as street art defence mechanism. But go below ground and with space time and imagination artwork flourishes. Nearby the legal wall another drain, painted wall to wall top to bottom. Piecing in peace, few people venture this far making it a safer place. Back at the legal wall a council worker pulls up armed with a tablet for a database and roller to buff paint that latest tag. That's the no tolerance approach to the surrounding walls in a city that tries to keep a lid on it despite it bursting at the seams.
Saturday, 2 December 2017
Townsville Graffiti
In the last few years many regional towns have started to embrace graffiti and street art culture. Examples of these towns include Geelong & Benalla (Victoria), Lismore & Byron Bay (NSW) and Townsville (Queensland). Each town has a slightly different angle on how they promote urban art as a tourist attraction.
Townsville city council has even gone as far to produce a street art brochure which provides a map and 16 different art pieces and separately includes illegal graffiti hot-spots.
Townsville City Council has created a Street Art Activation Framework from which there is a solid philosophy, vision and purpose behind the art.
The council unsuccessfully attempts to divide and separate the definition of street art and graffiti by simplification. It describes graffiti as illegal and street art legal. Whereas most artists, practitioners or vandals know some graffiti can be street art and most street art, if not all is not graffiti. So even the illegal works can be street art.
Objectives
(as stated and summarised to..)
- Cultural-Professional development, career opportunities, valuing public art, encouraging art diversity
- Economic-Increase activity in city, tourism, promoting diversity and innovation
- Recreational-Responding to youth needs, Building interest in community spaces
- Social-Encouraging collaboration, engaging with city youth, establishing civic pride
- Urban Planning-Urban transformation, community engagement, promoting public spaces
The council has mapped graffiti done through Townsville and has identified 6 priority activation sites based on their high levels of graffiti. 4 of which (where graffiti was aggregated) included the suggestion of Legal walls with Hosier Lane (Melbourne) and Morphett Bridge (Adelaide) used as successful examples.
It has also looked at mimicking the graffiti on trains with the "mobile canvas" concept to have the sides of council garbage trucks as a place to paint.
Sugar Glider by Roa
More info of Belgium artist Roa-http://www.streetartbio.com/roa
Faces of Townsville, by Ha ha
Ha ha bio-http://regantamanui.com/bio.html
Run Collective
Props to Kelso most prominent Far North Queensland graffiti writer
Crocodile and Turtle by Roa
"Illegal" graffiti out of Townsville
Tuesday, 17 October 2017
Wednesday, 27 September 2017
Cairns graffiti
Cairns
One of two graffiti alleyways in Cairns CBD
works include Sydney based artist Phibs
Prolific Far Northern Queensland artist Kelso
Friday, 11 August 2017
Thursday, 3 August 2017
Abandoned Skating arena, Brisbane
In Red Hill, Brisbane lies an abandoned skating arena. Only a fraction of its former glory the building was deliberately burnt in 2002. The next door business Clovely Estate Cellar Door bought the site 2011 with the intention to re-develop it. Approval from council but later on objections from the public has held up any further development. The site remains a relic of the past built in 1920's. Progressively plants are establishing through accumulation of debris. The roof has all but completely burnt and the steel beams and slowly being encapsulated by vines.
Internationally acclaimed graffiti artist Sofles from Brisbane
Melbourne graffiti crew "All city"
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