Legal graffiti and public art projects

Council, through its Graffiti Management Policy, supports legal forms of public art and related programs. This has resulted in the addition of some fantastic local public art works that have become unique features of this municipality.

Whitlam Park Mural

Napier Studios Street Art Project, a City of Yarra and CityLink partnership, joined forces with Down Syndrome Victoria (DSV) to create an exciting new street based mural in Whitlam Park Fitzroy.

The mural, located on the external wall of DSV (corner of Moor and Napier Streets, Fitzroy), is the culmination of a unique art project designed to engage and benefit local young people and people with Down syndrome.

Starting in January, the partnership involved a series of Council-run creative workshops for a group of people with Down syndrome. Their resulting ideas and artwork were then used by 15 local young people from Napier Studios to create the finished mural design.

Four prominent street or stencil artists - Regan Tamanui (aka Ha Ha), Reka, Ash Keating and Adrian Doyle - assisted the young people in painting the finished design onto the wall.

Stewart Street mural

This detailed hand spray-painted graffiti style mural (by artists Kim and Dale Nicol) was commissioned by the City of Yarra (with additional funding from Crime Prevention Victoria), with support and site permission from Connex Melbourne Pty Ltd.

The mural was in response to local community members concerns over the high level of tagging occurring at the site after an existing mural was removed.  This mural is located on Stewart Street Richmond, to the right of the entrance to the Richmond Station.

Note: After the completion of this mural, the artist Kim Nicol was then further commissioned (by Connex) to create a series of murals at the entrance to the Richmond Station.

Citylink Mural

Ctiylink approached Council to partner in a project to create a mural on a Citylink retaining wall which was constantly being tagged. The project was commissioned by Citylink and project managed by the City of Yarra.

Working through Council’s Youth Arts Program (and in particular the Napier Street Studio program), young people with an interest in street art (ie the contemporary mediums of stencil and spray painting) worked with art mentors to develop and create this mural.

The mural is situated on the noise-wall located at the end of Mary Street, Richmond, overlooking the Yarra River and Alexandra Ave.

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