Latest articles by Adrian Doyle
Hosier Lane is ugly, dangerous and depraved
Imagine being a primary school teacher with a group of Grade Four students, exploring Australia’s number one Instagram spot, Hosier Lane, the best free tourist attraction in Australia as voted by Lonely Planet.
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Has the urban art movement finished?
There is a variety of complexities involved in any attempt to define street art.
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A sustainable art precinct
A few months ago, I secured a lease on some land on the edge of the city on King St.
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Who painted the lane?
Hosier Lane is a well-known and culturally significant laneway located in the heart of the CBD. If you don’t know where it is, then you’re probably not from around here.
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Street art versus fine art
What defines street art and how does it sit with in the fine art world?
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Money blowout on graffiti removal
Australia spends around $2 billion a year to remove graffiti, and Melbourne spends around $100 million on graffiti removal each year. That’s a lot of money; taxpayers’ money. I thought about different things this money could be used for …
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Is street art dead?
People always tell me that there isn’t anything new in art and that painting is dead.
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Nu-muralism
Melbourne has long had a thriving street art and urban scene, and murals are becoming an ever-increasing part of this culture.
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Melbourne CBD’s best art laneways
As the year ends it’s a good time to reflect on the creative urban art scene in Melbourne. It has been an interesting year.
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Graffiti is not unsafe
Melbourne has a problem that’s way bigger than graffiti.
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Oh, the beautiful, the laneways
Fresh paint drips down the wall as an artist risks litigious and possible physical consequence. His friend stands at the front of the lane keeping an eye out for a ubiquitous threat. The spotter is flighty as the artist is taking longer than expected.
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Laneway management is shambolic
In a recent news article, the state government has come out and said that it will now protect important laneways in the city. I would like to ask which important laneways they would like to protect. I wonder if they can name one that hasn’t already been irreversibly corrupted.
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The problem with urban art
People really hate bad tags. It is something that has made legitimate and good street art and graffiti hard to navigate.
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Melbourne is unsafe and it has nothing to do with graffiti
If you have walked around the city lately you would be aware of two things: the homeless people that seem desperate and scary and the expensive attack the council seems to be launching against graffiti.
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I am afraid of police
When I was a kid, I was scared of the police – it’s something that was taught from my dad as we could never really afford good cars and my dad was constantly worried about getting a canary (defective car notice).
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Visual junk ruining Melbourne’s laneway culture
It has always been a problem that young or emerging artists put their art near a far more famous artist’s work so that other people will see their work incidentally
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New mural for Melbourne
As the planet completes another rotation of the sun, and things really ramp up in 2021 I hope all readers had a fun and somewhat normal holiday.
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