Art Street

by newtown graffiti
(Sydney Australia)

How to take a photo with Facebook

Force fed

Trelease

SL33PWALK & grrl+dog

Yesterday it was time to check out a few back lanes for street art and visit a couple of local galleries in Enmore Road. Art street?

Plump Gallery in Enmore is running a solo exhibition, "embodied", by Grace Kingston.

I thought her installation, "How to take a photo with Facebook" was good fun.

The OH REALLY gallery in Newtown is running "Interrupted Focus", a selection of work by several local artists.

David Grenhalgh's "Force Fed" has an air of appealing menace. Linda O'Toole's "Trelease" is a gentler work.

Finally, an unusual piece of street art.

While there are a few places around Sydney where it's legal to wield spray cans on public surfaces (I'll visit a couple of them in due course), most street art is illegal and how long it lasts before it is scrubbed out depends on the local council area in which it appears.

This piece is actually a nice juxtaposition of a paste-on work by SLE33PWALK and a pole wrapped in knitted wool by grrl+dog.

Plump Gallery
240 Enmore Road, Sydney
NSW 2042
ph: 02 8065 5652

Tues-Fri 1000-1800 (10am-6pm)
Sat 1130-1900 (11.30am-7pm)

OH REALLY Gallery
55 Enmore Rd, Sydney
NSW 2042
ph: 0401 919 624

Wed-Sun 1100-1800 (11am-6pm)

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Art Street

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Good art streets?
by: Daniel Williams

Great pics.

I'll be in Sydney in a few weeks. Staying with friends in Dulwich Hill. I won't have time to go round too many places, so what would you suggest as the best places for street art? Preferably not too far away from where I'm staying. I think it's still inner west.

Thanks

Street Art in Sydney's Inner West
by: newtown grafitti

Pride of place must be May Lane, St Peters. Catch a train to Newtown and it is a 25 minute walk south down King Street to St Peters station and south from there down the little lane by the station (check out the route at Google Maps). This is a fabulous legal series of sites where content changes monthly. I was the other day. Check out my Flickr stuff starting at http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5228/5682327152_fec26a92b7_b.jpg

If you go south across May Road, there's a stencil wall on the corner of Applebee and Hutchinson.

Back up to Enmore Road, if you turn north off towards the rail line at Station Street and along Gladstone, there's a whole bunch of laneways parallel to Enmore Road with interesting work. If you head north down Phillip Lane there is stuff too and you get to the stencil wall at the corner of Gladstone and Phillip. The pedestrian rail underpass at the end of Phillip Street is sometimes interesting but hard to shoot. It's fairly dark in there and the paint is gloss, so using a flash is difficult.

Where else? The Oh Really Gallery and the Plump Gallery at the east and south-west ends of Enmore Road showcase artists who often do great street art stuff. Do look in. If you ask, you can take photos (as long as not for commercial purposes).

Finally, on the corner of Shepherd Street and Grafton Street, just off Broadway, there are a couple of interesting stencil walls (catch a bus from Dulwich Hill and get off at the first Broadway stop).

In the Inner West stuff pops out all the time. Just carry your camera everywhere, and you will get interesting shots. Look for Will Coles's TV controllers, mobile phones and other tiny sculpture stuck in corners on the ground or on walls And I think his concrete washing machine is still in Australia Street, near King Street.

Other readers might contribute more suggestions too.

Good luck in your quest. Consider posting interesting things you find in the Flickr site Stencils, Street Art & Graffiti in Australia

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