What an interesting week it’s been for Melbourne street art. Soon after the snapchat fight between Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Taylor Swift, went viral, Melbourne artist LUSH whipped up a controversial memorial piece to Swift in Hosier lane, with the face updated with a character and text changed to Harambe, and then yet again altered – this time with Kanye’s…

Smug painted the otters wall before he started working on the four storey Grandparents mural in Melbourne. Story goes that the day after it was completed, a less talented person with a spray can decided to cap the whole piece creating heated arguments on social media about the ongoing battle between street art and graffiti on Melbourne’s streets…

I first actually met ROA at the Outpost Project in Sydney back in 2011. We had a brief exchange as he was up high on a scissor lift painting a large mural across the whole side of a building. In 2012, he came to Melbourne, created the controversial solo exhibition Carrion, visited Healesville Sanctuary and painted a few incredible pieces (video here) and before…

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Over a six month period in Ringwood on the outskirts of Melbourne, nine female street artists were chosen from across Australia and abroad to paint nine large works of art at the newly renovated Eastland development.   These were the street artists involved: 23rd Key who painted the largest stencil artwork ever painted in Australia, Baby Guerilla who…

Rone has just completed a new mural on the streets of Melbourne just in time for International Women’s Day. The piece features three local female artists , Miso otherwise known as Stanislava Pinchuk, Bianca Chang and Hana Davies. Famous for his sumptuous paintings of glamorous women, in particular an often recurring image of his so-called Jane Doe,…

Our friend REKA first started as a graffiti artist in the 1990s, moving to street art including large murals later. He has already exhibited his work in many countries, in Denmark, France or the United States, and created many murals across the world, from Australia to Canada through London, New York, Berlin or Milan. His work…

JUSTKIDS and StreetArtNews are proud to present “Drowned Kingdom”, a brand new limited edition screen-print by Ana Maria which was created last summer during her stop in Turin for the JUSTKIDS Euro Tour which took her around several European cities to paint murals.Produced during her week long residency with Mission To Art and Street Alps, a…

Puerto Rican street artist Bikismo created a stunningly photorealistic chrome dog mural for the Raw Project at the Jose De Diego Middle School during the latest Art Basel Miami. The street piece took about four days and was painted entirely with spray, reflecting objects and scenes from the surrounding area giving an incredible 3D feeling.The…

Our friend 2501 is set to release an extra-large print next week after his residency with the good team of ViaVai project in Italy. 2501 specialises in creating gigantic murals with his signature black and white wavy lines.This release, entitled “Tons of tools” is a reproduction of one of his artworks that was created for his…