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This page is developing into a fairly comprehensive catalog of the street art locations in Central Melbourne. The locations are listed from left to right starting at the south end of the city, and gradually moving north.
The map below shows the locations - it is a work in progress, but most of the essential information is in place.
A pdf version is available here: Melbourne Street Art 86 - Map of main street art locations in Central Melbourne
Links
- Outdoor Artworks: October 2009 - a guide to public art in The City of Melbourne commissioned by the council (PDF document, does not include street art)
- Official City of Melbourne page for public art (including street art)
Street art locations featured on this page
Locations in orange italic have more photographs on the MELBOURNE - Bourke St page
- Samuel Lane
- Flinders Court
- Degraves Place
- Centre Point
- Hosier Lane
- Higson Lane
- ACDC Lane
- Duckboard Place [to come]
- McKillop Street
- Union Lane
- Baptist Close
- Eagle Alley
- Healeys Lane
- Finlay Lane
- Little Lonsdale Street
- Timothy Lane
- Ozmek Lane (off Hardware Street)
- Little Lonsdale Street (near Heape Court)
- Heape Court
- Drewery Lane
- Caledonian Lane
- Stevenson Lane
- Bullens Lane
- Corrs Street
- Croft Alley
- Crossley Street
- Westwood Place
- Meyers Place
- Alley cnr Spring Street and Bourke Street
- Haywards Lane
- Corner Jonas Lane and Little Lonsdale Street
- Evans Lane
- Victoria Street (car park next to Bell Place)
- Literature Lane
- 'Artists' Lane
Samuel Lane
Flinders Court
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| Artist: Deb |
Centre Point
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| Artist: Straker |
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| Artist: Be Free |
Degraves Place
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| Artist: Phoenix The Street Artist |
Hosier Lane
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| Artist: Owen Ditte |
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| Artist (Map): CDH |
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| Artist: Vexta |
Rutledge Lane
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| Artists: Sofles and Deb |
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| Artist: Will Coles |
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| Artist: Ruskidd |
Higson Lane
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| Artist (animal stencils): Sunfrigo |
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| Artist: Be Free |
ACDC Lane
Murals created by Everfresh crew and friends (artists include Heesco, Makatron, Prizm, Meggs, and Plea, Kid Zoom, Itch, Mayo and Drewfunk). Link to video about the Zoos Victoria mural project.
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| Artist: Makatron |
Duckboard Place [to come]
McKillop St
There are more photographs of this location on the MELBOURNE - Bourke Street page.
Artists: Phibs, Lister
Union Lane
Union Lane is off Bourke Street Mall between Elizabeth Street and Swanston Street.
There are more photographs of this location on the MELBOURNE - Bourke Street page.
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| Artists: Herakut |
Baptist Close
Baptist Close is off Little Collins Street between Russell Street and Swanston Street.
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| Artists: CDH |
Eagle Alley
Eagle Alley is off Little Lonsdale Street close to Spencer Street on the west side of the city.
Healeys Lane
Healeys Lane is off Little Lonsdale Street close to Spencer Street on the west side of the city.
Artist: Elk
Finlay Lane
These sorts of light conditions really show the limitations of the camera I am using at the moment. I will be back here certainly once I upgrade to something more versatile.
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| Artist: Shida |
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| Artist: Urban Cake Lady |
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| Artist: Urban Cake Lady |
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| Artist: Rone |
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| Artist (Left): Beastman; (centre to right) Roach |
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| Artist (inset): Solfes |
Little Lonsdale Street - side of Horse Bazaar bar, near Finley Lane
Timothy lane (east side)
Artist: Sunfrigo
Timothy lane (west side)
Ozimek Lane off Hardware Street
Little Lonsdale Street Next to Heape Court
Heape Court
Drewery Lane runs between Lonsdale Street and Little Lonsdale Street close to Swanston Street. It is also located on the other side of the road from the north exit Caledonian Lane (Location 4 on the MELBOURNE - Bourke Street page).
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| Entrance of Drewery Lane seen from north end of Caledonian Lane |
Sniders Lane (first left)
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| Artist: DFACE |
Drewery Place (second left)
Drewery Alley (third left)
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| Artists: Shida (left); drab (right centre) |
Artist: Invader
Little Londale Street (Drewery Lane exit)
Artist: Drew Funk
Swanston Street
'Resting Place'
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| Artist: Bronwyn Snow |
There are three of these 'painted poles' outside the State Library. They were commissioned by The City of Melbourne in 1992 as part of the Swanston Street Walk Public Art Project.
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| Artist: Jennifer McCarthy |
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| Artist: Jennifer McCarthy |
This sculpture by Petrus Spronk was also commissioned for the Swanston Street Walk Public Art Project in 1992, but was installed in 1993.
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| Artist: Petrus Spronk |
"Spronk’s intention was to create a dialogue of sorts between art, history and place. His inspiration was Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem ‘Ozymandias’, which speaks of the fragile and transient nature of all that is human. Quoting from the poem, the pedestal reads: My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings. Look on my work you Mighty, and despair.’ " - from City of Melbourne: Outdoor Artworks 2009
Little Lonsdale Street - Inside Queen Victoria Shopping Centre (near entrance opposite The Wheelers Centre)
Artist: Mark Fitz
Caledonian Lane (entrance from Lonsdale St or Little Bourke Street)
There are more photographs of this location on the MELBOURNE - Bourke Street page.
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| Artists: Makatron (monster); Debs (female figure); Phibs (totem) |
Stevenson Lane is off Tattersalls Lane, which leads off Lonsdale Street just east of Swanton Street.
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| Artist: Beastman |
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| Artists: Adnate, Shida |
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| Artist: Ha Ha |
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| Artist (centre and right stencils): Ha Ha |
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| Artists: Adnate, Shida |
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| Artist (doorway): Ears |
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| Artist (left): Swoon |
Bullens Lane
Bullens Lane is off little Bourke Street, close to Russell Street.
Coverlid Place (off Little Bourke Street)
There are more photographs of this location on the MELBOURNE - Bourke Street page.
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| Artist (left): Shida |
Corrs Lane (off little Bourke Street)
There are more photographs of this location on the MELBOURNE - Bourke Street page.
Snapshots - DMV - Chinatown - Melbourne : Invurt article on the work below
Croft Alley (off little Bourke Street)
There are more photographs of this location on the MELBOURNE - Bourke Street page.
This alley turn left at the face at the end of this shot, and then right. Most of the walls are covered with art.
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Crossley Street
There are more photographs of this location on the MELBOURNE - Bourke Street page.
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| Artist (lion head and green bird): Sunfigo |
Westwood Place
Westwood Place is accessed from Bourke Street through the narrow alleyway below or from Little Collins Street. It is on the right looking up Bourke Street towards Parliament House, about 50m up from Exhibition Street.
Meyers Place
Corner Spring Street & Bourke Street (In narrow alley)
This alley is a short distance up Spring Street on the corner of The Imperial pub.
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| Artists: Simz & Mishap |
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| Artists: Simz & Mishap |
Haywards Lane (off little Lonsdale Street)
Corner of Jonas Lane and Little Lonsdale Street
Evans Lane (off Little Lonsdale Street)
The photograph below is looking out of Evans Lane into Little Lonsdale Street.
Opposite side
Car park next to Bell Place (on Victoria Street just opposite Drummond Street)
Artist (next three photos): Ash Keating
Literature Lane
Literature Lane is close to where Little Latrobe Street meets Swanston Street in the northern part of The City of Melbourne. It's pretty much opposite the main RMIT campus and can be reached by any tram travelling north up Swanston Street, or from Melbourne Central Station.
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| Artist (green bird): Sunfrigo |
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| Artist (top right): Baby Guerilla |
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| Artists (end piece): Nails, Twoone and Al Stark |
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The mural below was commissioned by RMIT as part of the White Night Festival in February 2013. You can see it being painted, and what it replaced in the two photographs below.
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| Artists: Ghostpatrol, Max Berry and Twoone |
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| Artists: Miso, Twoone & Ghost Patrol |
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| Artists: Ghost Patrol, Al Stark & Twoone |
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| Artists: Twoone, Alstark, Max Berry and Miso |
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