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Melbourne's Graffiti History, "Jail-Break"

Break (Jason Bath) was eventually caught after actively painting around Melbourne for almost 10 years. Break was forced to pay significant costs associated with "defacing" trains and served a jail sentence. His style and pieces have left a strong mark in the Melbourne graffiti scene. Break was respected for his prolific painting of trains. Break remains Unbreakable.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/law-order/graffiti-artist-offers-to-clean-up-mess-to-prevent-bankruptcy-over-outstanding-metro-bill/story-fni0fee2-1226708191473

Akuze

Tight!

100th AustralianGraffiti Blog Post!

Trucks are fair game when it comes to graffiti. Most graffiti stays in the one place, with the exception of trains, trucks or any other mobile vehicle. Trucks are unique in their own way because unlike trains they are flexible and don't have a set route or line. This can give the artist free advertisement moving across the city. Trains are buffed daily, but white canvas trucks often have years of paint accumulation. Truck bombing is generally quick and its dominated by tags and throw-ups. Pieces are rare because they take longer. Speed and efficiently is essential for the best artists to maintain their street profile. Truck bombings occur when there is surrounding high-density graffiti like the inner-suburbs of Melbourne.      

 Clifton Hill

 Clifton Hill

 Footscray

 North Melbourne

 Victoria Market

 Fitzroy

 Bayswater

Bayswater

Broady

The outer Northern suburbs are different to the rest of Melbourne. Dry, residential, urban and a very high proportion of migrants. Broadmeadows is often tainted with the low socio-economic negatives, but the towns reputation is changing. There is a reoccurring trend in city suburbs; gradually suburbs are being gentrified. Eventually this affluent wave will probably move out to Broadmeadows. More info on gentrification http://www.theage.com.au/victoria/spotting-the-next-hip-hub-20121110-294l1.html. The graffiti here is very good. 

Peps

Peps is well known in the Melbourne scene, this is some of the work...

The Art of Bombing!

For some people graffiti wasn't intended to be beautiful. Someone once said graffiti is a response to "bad architecture" which I couldn't of agreed more. Cities are fucking depressing places. I can't spend to much time there otherwise I choke whether it be air pollution, traffic and noise (offense to all your senses). Jetso Peezor are amongst the most notorious bombers with there distinctive throw-up dominating the cities inner- suburbs.  

Melbourne's Biggest Legal Wall?

In Ferntree Gully next to the petrol station is the largest organised legal wall in Eastern Melbourne. Back in 2011 many artists from big name crews like AFP, SDM, ADN, MDR and SR painted this wall. Practitioners  Askm, Perch and Dvate paint routinely, related pieces repetitively. They use similar structure and adjust colours, backgrounds, 3D from piece to piece. There is a state of the art, level of skill when you've repeated a piece with a similar style over and over again. This wall and other legal walls inspire artists from the suburbs. It gives them a range of styles to help create new ideas and letter-forms.    

Ferntree Gully, Melbourne

Bubble Throw-up Styles

A throw-up or throwie is the artists pseudonym or sometimes the first and last letter of their name. They often have one outline colour and one fill colour. Sometimes they don't have any fill. Throw-ups are designed to cover large and generally high profile spaces quickly and rapidly without being caught. 

Richmond Station

PAA bombing high profile locations around Melbourne.

Jetso Peezr smashing the scene with traditional dirty, grunge styled graffiti.

 JA from New York?? in Knoxfield

Yucks Dandy, These guys have smashed the Freeways recently 

Memorial pieces around Melbourne