Location 5: Hosier Lane

Hosier Lane is the most popular lane way for street art in all of Melbourne. The lane way is internationally known as one of the most popular places in the world to do graffiti. There is so much street art done in the wall that there is relatively no…

Location 4: Ian Potter Centre NGV

Otherwise known as Federation Square is located adjacent to St Paul’s Cathedral and across the street from Flinders Street Station. As a mixed-use development that highlights local art, plays and also hosts local gatherings for events such as…

Stop 5

The final location of the Street Art Star Tour is ACDC Lane. Like the streets that came before it on the tour, Drewery Lane, Caledonian Lane, Union Lane, and Hosier Lane, ACDC Lane is very unique in its own right. When walking in to the lane, you…

Location 3: Flinders Street Station

Street art has been known to reduce the ridership on transit systems. A bus full of graffiti may be assumed to be dirty and/or associated with gang ridership, which in turn gives the feeling that it is unsafe. It is increasingly popular to deface…

Stop 4

The penultimate location of the Melbourne Street Art Star Tour is Hosier Lane. Hosier Lane is one of the most if not the most famous street for street art in the city of Melbourne. Artist all over the world travel to Melbourne just to be able to…

Stop 3

After going from Drewery Lane to Caledonian Lane, the next location of the Star Tour is Union Lane. Union lane unlike Caledonian Lane is much more narrow. When walking down through the lane you can see that everything that could be covered with art…

Location 2: Melbourne GPO

Cameron Mcauliffe maintains “Graffiti typically relates to a range of practices from tagging through to elaborate “pieces” (from masterpiece) with a focus on stylized words and text, usually including the tag name of the artists/writers and their…

Stop 2

The next stop on the tour is Caledonian Lane. Caledonian Lane like Drewery Lane is also a great place to art, especially murals. The most interesting thing about Caledonian Lane other than the art itself is the size of the street. Usually the streets…

Stop 1

The first location of the Star Tour is Drewery Lane. Drewery Lane is a great place in Melbourne to see some fantastic artwork. In Drewery Lane you can many different types of artwork scattered around the walls of the street. One of the first things…

Location 1: The Queen Victoria Market

The Queen Victoria Market originally started out as a cemetery and went though many more changes before finally becoming the largest open air market in the southern hemisphere. Its website signifies it as “The heart and soul of Melbourne for over a…