Melbourne’s Street Art: catch it if you can

One of the most popular sights of Melbourne are all the graffiti/street art laneways. We have some super-duper creative talent in Melbourne.  

If you can brave the tourist junkit and have sharpened your elbows enough, you might just be able to nudge your way to that beautiful shot before someone sprays over it with another artistic gem… or if you’re unlucky, a talentless spray-tagged creation from a kid with an expiring Costco membership (gotta git‘me cans!).  

Here are some beauties I nudged my way to:

Venture out I say! Fine, I will!

There’s the usual laneways you can check out like Hosier Lane, AC/DC Lane, Duckboard Place or Croft Alley which by the way is home to Melbourne’s medical laboratory themed bar called The Croft Institute (you can’t miss it… third dumpster to the right and straight on ‘til morning).  

Buuuut… if you’re adventurous like me and don’t mind braving that strange dark alley (I don’t recommend this, and never accept candy from a stranger it’s not as tasty as he says), you can find some even more amazing art just waiting to be discovered!  

Here are some examples of art I’ve stumbled on outside the tourist traps; but jokes aside, there are plenty to find out in the open so there’s no need to risk your life for some “brick bling” – new hash tag anyone?  

Where did it go?! It was here yesterday!

Too slow grandma wooOOooOoo! The thing I love about taking photos of the street art is that you may not ever see it again (but only the good stuff – taggers can just go get… erm… tagged; I dunno there’s a joke in there somewhere, help me out guys…).  

It’s like I’m a historian – but much more awesome ok; I shop at Uniqlo. I document history through my 1001.5 happy snaps and share it with you guys and my Insta-crew! (0.5 was the not-so-happy-snap of a tourist who stuck their face to my lense – friendly fellow).  

Here is my gone-memorial of past street art you guys missed out on (cue sad music please):  

And due to popular demand…

Here are a few more, but that’s it, you’re just going to have to wait till I go get some more. Don’t make me turn this blog post around… one… twooooooo… thre-!  

So the “Lego Flowers” are the second part to the graffiti in my Introduceyourself post, the humming bird was looking for these babies, very smart aye?!  

Huh?

So, if you enjoyed this type of post, let me know if you’d like to see more! Or not… but still tell me ok? We’re street buddies, street buddies tell their other street buddies the truth…