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

Friday, 22 May 2026

Apollo Bay-sticker scene

 Almost three hours drive from Melbourne and you'll find yourself in a bustling little coastal town. Apollo Bay sits nestled in the Otway's with coast, heathland and some of the wettest Rainforest in Victoria. Regional towns that have a high influx of seasonal visitors brings a diversity of backgrounds. The surf and skate scene are often interwoven with graffiti. These towns often have greater emphasis on artistic and environmental scene that can give rise to these localised graffiti scenes in unexpected places. Just back up the road is the famous Bells Beach for surfing near Torquay. Apollo Bay is just one of a string of coastal hamlets situated along the Great Ocean Rd where international descend upon in droves. All trying catch a glimpse of the eroding and disappearing Twelve Apostles. Whilst there is a general absence of traditional aerosol graffiti the sticker scene is thriving in town. There's an acceptance that this fits in with the local streetscape of the town. 



Nearby Cool Temperate Rainforest of Triplet Falls



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.