Showing posts with label regional. Show all posts
Showing posts with label regional. Show all posts

Tuesday, 13 May 2025

Newcastle Freights

Artwork from New South Wales third biggest city. Newcastle is a industrial town claiming the world's largest coal port. Abundant coal made prime position for BHP establishing steelworks that dominated the local economy until its closure in 1999. What's left, well an town that has a history of infrastructure embedded in the prosperity coal. As most countries in the world shift away from fossil fuels a diversified future comes with certainty. The transport of coal to Newcastle plays backdrop to the city as it dominates the city landscape with this bleak dystopian undercurrent. 

Trains have always been prized as the top spot to display a piece. Passenger trains are the ultimate steel canvas. Whatever runs on metro trains gets buffed and cleaned quick, whereas freight train pieces often run for years. 





 

Sunday, 27 September 2015

Launceston

Since there is lots of other websites, fb pages and blogs devoted to inner-city graffiti and more so street art, here's some regional graffiti for balance from Tasmania's Northern city, Launceston.


Sunday, 26 April 2015

Woori Yallock Bridge

Woori Yallock lies 55km East of Melbourne CBD, in a semi rural setting. Woori Yallock is a aboriginal word which means "running creek". The town is serviced primarily by the Warbuton Hwy which connects the Yarra Valley to Melbourne. Woori Yallock is not well known for its graffiti scene. The main town park called Wytag Reserve has a mural painted to prevent graffiti! But I can scratch the surface a little bit to find what lies deeper beneath. On the Healesville-koo-wee-rup Rd driving North is a bridge over the Yarra River. Underneath the bridge is a range of Graf from local and travelling artists.