Stop 3: Brunswick St

Walking on Brunswick Street is not the same as walking on Rose Street. The spatial setting starts to somewhat change as we make our way towards where the artists were forced to pack their bags and head to next, Collingwood. In the meantime, there is…

Stop 2: Rose Street Artists Market

As the CBD saw a rise in house prices, street artists began moving out of the city. Fitzroy became the new artistic hub. It attracted young artists with its lower rent and abundant space. This set off a chain reaction of artists contributing to…

Stop 1: CBD

The first stop in this tour is located in the CBD, where Melbourne’s street art journey began, inspired by the New York street art culture. Young artists emerged frequently in an attempt to paint the city in their colour. Graffiti was mostly related…

Stop 5 Alexandra parade/ George St

In this last stop, you will see an exterior of the pool wall is covered beautifully by artworks of Kaffeine. These artworks are contributed to Kaffeine first project, which called HEARTCORE book. This book offers audiences an insight into the lives…

Stop 4 Rose st/ Brunswick st

In this stop, you will have the opportunity to experience other beautiful artworks of street artist Deb and Kaffeine. The first artwork you engage with, before crossing the Brunswick St to the other side of Rose St, is another extraordinary design of…

Stop 5 - Sofles' 'Graffiti Mapped' (White Night Mural)

Our last stop is a bit further away from the first four pieces, but makes up for it in size, technique, execution and creativeness. This enormous mural (a full wall of Mackenzie Street’s multi-level car park) was part of a project by Juddy Roller, in…

Eye Spy Challenge

Feel like a final Eye Spy Challenge? See if you can find these items in Hosier Lane. GOOD LUCK!

Woman's Beauty, Part 3

Finally, the last sticker "great comment asshole" is a humorous though political reaction to cat calling. Cat calling can be considered a form of micro-aggression, where the presence of women in public space is disciplined through verbally…

Critiquing Women

This stop is important to highlight how even feminist theory there is divergence over the best ways to combat gendered hierarchies. On the one hand liberalists may choose to reclaim sexuality in order to achieve empowerment, or access to what women…

Woman's Beauty, Part 2

To provide a contrast it is also helpful to consider themes within the pieces of Cherie Buttonss. Cherie Buttonss is an Australian, female artists, who uses hyper-feminine, pop and pastel imagery within her art. The female characters represented are…