This mural is the work of Adnate, a member of the collective AWOL. It shares stark similarities with his previous work insofar as it embodies the same theme and raises awareness of the same issues: those related to the representation of aboriginal…

The representation of indigenous culture in street art is only a recent phenomenon. Previously there have been small works and tributes to the original owners of the land, however it is often considered a difficult or inappropriate subject matter to…

Street artists can express their own agenda through their work, or can use their abilities to further causes that they feel are important and need to be shown to the public in a new light. Previously environmental groups and animal activists…

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Recalling a similar gothic fascination around the ‘ruin’ in the 19th century German Romantic tradition, in the modern city the uncanny surfaces in the disquiet conjured by the ‘unreason’ of abandoned urban sites. There is an unknowable quality to the…

Another scenario that may hit hard, if a fair amount of time into the tour when parents are feeling particularly closely tied to their child’s thoughts and perspectives, would be coming across something like this. Being confronted by a memorial for a…

Following federation in 1901, active measures were taken to ensure as much as possible, the removal of non-white people from the continent in order to preserve the racial purity of what exceedingly became a ‘white-nation’. These measures materialized…

Urban geographer Edward Soja understands the experience of the modern city as an articulation of space, time and social being (1989, 13). The previous stops have imbricated the uncanny within being and space - a spatial ontology of sorts - but have…

As the parent finds themselves becoming more in tune with the child and its thoughts throughout the tour and maybe even able to anticipate where the child may stop next, they start to think more from their perspective, but with the adult’s own…

It is also expected that the child may notice things because of their height that an adult ordinarily would not spot, such as objects or works close to or even on the ground. This invites the parent to further believe that it is worth trying to view…