It is a prominent supporter of street art worldwide. The city government supports art in public spaces increasingly and has approved several key areas to be used by the street artist Melbourne. Although graffiti and tagging are still illegal, the use of stencils, murals and paste-ups is encouraged to explore the more creative side of street art. We check out and find five of Melbourne’s best street artist Melbourne.
Ghostpatrol
Ghostpatrol originated in Tasmania and now works in Melbourne. His works on the Street, as well as other, more traditional media, have won international recognition. Ghostpatrol’s style is a combination of fiction and science, which defines himself as an experimenter rather than an artist. He tries through his art as an artist/experimenter to explore what it means to live and how this existence will move forward. Ghostpatrol’s work, which was totally self-educated, was initially largely transient in nature with a specific emphasis on stencilling and pasting. Ghostpatrol is actually, however, more interested in illustration, painting and building larger facilities.
Ha-Ha
Ha-Ha is currently Australia’s most prolific street artist Melbourne, recognised by the real name Regan Tamanui after his pills received a lot of media interest in Australia and New Zealand, Tamanua’s native. Tamanu’s work is based on Australian and Anglophone pop culture, which is an expert in massive, multi-layered paste-ups that can cover whole multi-level walls. Tamanu also swears by analogue practises at a time of digital increase and computerised image editing, avoiding the use of software and collecting all his photographs directly from newspapers.
Kaff-eine
Kaff-eine is an established artist whose work has been exhibited around the world in capitals, situated right in the centre of Melbourne’s street art scene in Fitzroy. She also works to connect street art with social welfare agencies, raise funds for needy children from impoverished communities and attract attention to them. Her last initiative was to work with the voluntary Australian family services Berry Street, for which she created a series of murals in Melbourne, all focused on the writings of the students from Melbourne’s Berry Street academy.
Meggs
David Meggs Hooke is one of the globally famous street artist Melbourne. Meg’s work has been extended from street art to direction and production; in shows globally, Meggs continues to travel the world. Meggs has been immersed in the comics and sci-fi of the 1980s since his youth in the eastern suburbs of Melbourne. This formative history shines in Meggs’s work, as he uses the heroes and peasants in layered works of art to bring a certain dimension of nostalgia to his adolescence.
Rone
Rone has been based in Melbourne since 2002, one of the most prominent street artists Melbourne. Rone originally planned skate decks and local skate parks, and gradually produced large walls over the streets of the area. The artwork of Rone concentrates largely on cut photographs of magnificent, carefully positioned female faces that seem to see the viewer. Rone intends to see the representations of beauty in the city as striking examples. The artist’s choice of canvas preferably offers his art a combination of attraction and decline because of the natural decline of his murals.
