Tag: Graffiti
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Kirkwell: home of discreet street art
The Orkney Islands are known for their archaeology – and I will get to that – not their street art. Graffiti is very much an urban art form in my mind, part of the gritty jumble of cities where built environments create ‘canvases’ in alley ways, underpasses, overpasses, abandoned buildings, and on unadorned walls. I…
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The synergy of weeds and graffiti
While walking along the bike track along the Yarra River in Richmond, Melbourne I found joy in weeds for once. I love the way nature completed the graffiti artwork.
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Pain Place
Every city has its pain place. In Darwin there’s the man with no legs elevated in a shady doorway. There’s the bus driver constantly glancing apprehensively in his mirror at the back of the bus where a drunk disheveled woman directs angry shouts like blows at a man in the group.
ART by Jude Tulloch 