Playing the Excelsior last night gave me some pause to reflect on my experience joining this interesting group.

The Street Art of Newtown

Posted on Jun 01, 2010 - 07:08 AM

Posted on Jun 01, 2010 - 07:08 AM

Stencil Art

Behind the Hub Theatre/Newtown Neighbourhood Centre is also a concentrated pocket of stencil graffiti. I don’t know if it is one prolific artist or many but there are some wild images. Again they can be in a series of the same stencil, one offs or two or more stencils that seem to go together.  Check the Wiki article for the details. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stencil_graffiti

Urban Planning

Newtown also has a great amount of what I will call “Urban Planning Art”. This is art that is built into the building and streets; some of it is almost the statues of old with a modern twist. There are many mosaic and inlaid works that give this central part of Newtown its artsy approach. Across the road at the Newtown Station and surrounds it’s still a bit ratty, though the ‘reno’ is underway and who knows what’s next?

Old-School Graffiti

There is some old school graffiti but next to the wheat-posting and stencils it is starting to (for me anyway) pale in its significance against the fresher approach.

Either way get out and see it and even better make it.

Virg…

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