Across the street diagonally from Federation Square – a celebrated architectural icon and Melbourne cultural center – is a hidden laneway named Hosier Lane. It’s here where I start my urban ...

Melbourne Street Art Tours and Fitzroy Street Art Tours offer inexpensive walks with local “artists” as your guide, but I’d venture out on my own. The city is a safe and welcoming place.

Melbourne has a long and storied history of street art, inspired by the graffiti artists of New York City and tracing back at least three decades. The city has become world-renowned and applauded by ...

Street art and graffiti can be seen at Hosier Lane, off Flinders lane in Melbourne. The draft graffiti management plan for 2014-18, made available for public comment on Thursday, points to the ...

Street Art has been described as ‘a colourful and creative form of graffiti’. The current attitude of the Melbourne City Council to encourage Street Art has allowed artists to create aesthetically ...

Some may regard it as an indication of a pending criminal invasion, while others regard it as an art form. Nevertheless, graffiti reflects the artistic essence of Melbourne. Despite the State of ...

Long-time Melbourne street artists are worried the rebel, anti-establishment movement has sold out. "It is not art anymore. It's become what I call 'Brandalism'," said artist Adrian Doyle.

MELBOURNE –- From murals, stencils and installations, to paste-ups and poster art -– street art has helped to shape the cultural personality of Melbourne. Socially it reinvigorates areas ...

Alison Young is a lawyer and a professor at the University of Melbourne, Australia, but don't let that intimidate you. She has also extensively covered the Australian street art world, writing and ...