Project Melbourne Underground at Emerald House is fast becoming Australia’s largest private street art project. Over the next few weeks, walls over more than 800 square metres of space will be sprayed and stencilled by around 90 artists – from around Australia and from New York, Paris and Amsterdam.
Personally, I love street art and I’d love to get to South Melbourne to check this out. Even if it’s not your thing (which makes me wonder why you clicked on this story), I’m sure you can appreciate the positive nature of the workshops: showcasing talent in a productive, legal way. Great stuff. [12ozProphet]
AshR
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 3:30 PMAlright I’m going to have to go check this out in a couple weeks when more is done :)
Nathan
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 4:23 PMI think this is where it is, not sure if it’s open, I really want to check this out.
105 York St, South Melbourne VIC 3205
Gebze
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 5:20 PMThis is certainly a foot forward for Australian Graff ;)… sydney needs to put up more legal walls for the kids to express them selves on, rather than doing the opposite and taking them down.
Vebi
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 5:38 PMSome “kid” tagged my wall (pretty sure it was a kid, saw the same paint on a fence in a long line that suggests it was done on skateboard). It’s an absolute pain to get off porous surfaces; I’d gladly kick him in the nuts for his efforts.
what the
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 10:54 PMPs. tagging and graffiti are 2 totally different things… ie 99.9% of taggers are little kids with no idea and no respect-even for legit graffiti
tags
Monday, January 30, 2012 at 4:39 PMtagging iswas what started and is the true essence of graffiti
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012 at 10:51 PMawesome. such a great idea. Melbourne is a great home for innovative ideas, and creative artistic expression.Wish more places in Oz would be open to this sort of creation…good on em
Chris
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 9:08 AMDoes anyone know if you can go check this out while still in progress!? I would love to go and take some photos of the work being done!
Facter
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 12:54 PMWow, I love that someone on Giz posted an article about Australian street art!!
It’s closed, so you can’t go check it out as its in progress, but we hear rumour that it will be open for viewing when its finished.
If you guys are interested in this kind of thing down here in Oz, we run a website called Invurt.com that follows it all – we’re dedicated gizmodo readers and its absolutely awesome to see this stuff on here!
Danny Allen
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 at 6:10 PMAwesome man. Feel free to drop us tips anytime. We love this stuff. :)
Debbie
Saturday, January 21, 2012 at 10:38 PMlove graffitti where do I find this carpark?
AC
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 12:12 PMAfter an epic effort by Sirum and Esky over the past six months and some extraordinary work by many artists over the past three weeks the project is close to complete. It will be open in February -stay tuned