On the western side of Melbourne’s CBD there are a series of laneways which comprise of walls covered in funky designs and a riot of colour. Every few years they are painted over for a new team of artists to be unleashed on the lanes. As a result they have become a tourist attraction.
Sydney has no central area to view interesting mural street art. There are a well known series along Bondi Beach promenade, one in Sydney’s Chinatown and many more scattered throughout the Newtown/Ashfield area.
Woollahra Council has commissioned a mural to be painted in Perry Lane.
They have paired with the University of New South Wales art campus to utilise their students to paint the mural both as a benefit to the community and a project for the students.
When I was there. there were already a number of finished paintings but the majority of the wall will be taken up by a beautiful, tropical, vibrant coloured jungle paradise theme.
Woollahra Council, once this project is completed, may well look for other laneways to decorate their municipality.
Who knows -Paddington and Edgecliff may well become a mural mecca?!
