Ringwood's dirty secret

What I have realized over 4 years of closely following urban art, is that towns promote a clean, tidy facade only to hide the dirty secrets. Ringwood is a classic example of this. Although it may be in a gentrification cycle, changing as the East-land shopping center gives the town a form of urban renewal. Walk the back streets and you will find graffiti. Ringwood is a central meeting place for artists from the Belgrave and Lilydale lines converging to paint the back walls and vacant blocks. It is very similar to Footscray both sharing graffiti, smack and dead public spaces.   

Peps

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

Bayswater

Look a fresh new surface to paint. Tags and Throw-ups along the train line. 

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.

Glen Waverley, Melbs.

In Eastern Melbourne is the end of the line station Glen Waverley. There is very few pieces around town however there are some throw-ups. 

However there are numerous shop back doors which are attractive for tags. The different styles and colours add vibrancy to the steel surface.

SR produce a significant quantity of graffiti in Melbourne's East. Dandy line sticker is from KSA (kickin some ass) established way back in 1988. KSA are one of Melbourne's most widespread and productive crews.

These doors are important message board for graffiti artists. This door can tell you, who is active or has been active in this area. There is a range of different skills varying from basic MJP on the bottom to a more detailed Lench, KSA, MR above.