Melbourne has a reputation for graffiti and street art. Specific lane ways and surfaces appear set aside for covert artists. These walls are not cleared or white washed of artwork, and over time the walls have been covered in vibrant and visually arresting creations.
Detail of a graffiti covered lane way wall
Opposite side detail of a graffiti covered lane way wall
Graffiti image of a young woman
Graffiti covered art supply store
Layers of tagging and street art
Commercial entrance decorated with street art
A doorway hidden among the graffiti
A recessed doorway in a lane of graffiti covered walls
Japanese style cafe wall
Small street lined with graffiti
Pub wall decorated with street art
Detail of an owl on a pub wall
Stencil artwork of Federation Street Station
Tagging continues to appear in Melbourne but it must be harder to make the desired blunt impact when all around artists are creating fun, bright, and outlandish images.
Graffiti in Lyon tends to be a form of tagging. Marks executed with no artistic intent; an expression of defiance and to desire to mark a location. One tagger went a step further than marking a wall, they had tagged a hedge.
