Street artists often try to emphasize the illegality of their work – through images or captions that capture the crime of spray-painting public streets. Some artists explicitly refer to themselves as vandals while others allude to the fact that it’s…

The final destination on this tour is at the corner of Nicholson and Blyth Street, and to get here you can either walk, or take the 96 tram to the last stop (how convenient!). This site boasts two different kinds of collaborations in very close…

Walk another 800m north on Nicholson Street until you come across some large gates with some large locks. You’re not the first ones to ‘trespass’, and you certainly won’t be the last – so push the gates as open as the chains will allow, go inside…

Continue north up Nicholson until you reach the first laneway after the corner of Brunswick Road and Nicholson Street, or catch the 96 tram to stop 22, walk about 50 metres, and turn left into the lane. One large grey wall will attract anyone and…

As the graffiti culture transgresses boundaries, so will we - by emulating the guerrilla experience of a street artist. Continue to walk down Nicholson Street, and cross to the right side of the road until you reach an abandoned fenced off car yard…

Hop off the number 96 tram at stop 16 and walk north up Nicholson Street until you find, wedged between two ‘undecorated’ buildings, a house behind a fence that has become a hive of activity. Immediately after the façades of the adjacent walls end…

Walking into the car park on the left, you are now feeling very rebellious because you are completely ignoring the “NO TRESPASSING – PRIVATE PROPERTY” sign. How else would you appreciate this mural on the building that constitutes the right wall of…

Have a look to your right. A parrot! This is an extremely powerful image. The elegant parrot is the smallest piece and is spatially in the background, yet the positioning of its wings and the ruffled tail feathers attribute to it such a state of…

Street art has assisted in the gentrification of Fitzroy over the past couple of decades. It has helped transform Fitzroy from an industrial working class area, to one of the most sought after suburbs of Melbourne. This rise in street art has been…

The commissioning of street art on private property has several positive outcomes for both the art and the wider community. Commissioning street art pieces allows both the resident and the artist to share something cultural with the community. Such…