Category Archives: Wall murals

Save Our Blank Walls

Posted on April 29, 2022 by AHC McDonald

Perth wall muzak has reached such a low point that it now has a system default font and clip art. Plonked – apparently without irony, next to what I think is the city’s only piece of political graff. I hope … Continue reading →

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Six Questions to ask Yourself Before not Commissioning a Mural in Western Australia

Posted on February 3, 2022 by AHC McDonald

As Western Australia’s bankrupt “street art” scene staggers on, (I was in York the other day, hoping that the mural being painted in the main street wasn’t going to have a black cockatoo or be terrible. And of course it … Continue reading →

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Scott of the Bad Carpet

Posted on December 7, 2021 by AHC McDonald

For the TWOP diaspora around the planet still holding onto Tim Winton level nostalgia for the Scotto (The Flying Scotsman née Candy Store) well, it’s just another vanished worst now. Despite seeing the last of the hipsters flat capped and … Continue reading →

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No Radical Text for The Sound Alternative

Posted on April 17, 2021 by AHC McDonald

There can be no better example of how street art in Perth has been erased by anodyne civic decoration than the rear of RTR FM’s building in Beaufort Street Mt Lawley – to the extent that almost nobody realises that … Continue reading →

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The Brown is Coming Down, 2008 to 2021 are youse vibrant yet?

Posted on February 2, 2021 by AHC McDonald

When The Worst of Perth started in 2007, did we expect that things would be better a decade and a half later? Did we even think about it, or did we just live and make love in the moment, shoving … Continue reading →

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Tokenism at Number Ten

Posted on November 29, 2019 by AHC McDonald

Your Nutrition and Hydration on the Gallery Scene, brought to you by The Worst of Perth. No catering surprises from an art collective group at Janet Holmes à Court’s West Perth industrial-unchic gallery @ No. 10. But it would be … Continue reading →

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Wine into Water, Bayswater Art Awards 2019

Posted on November 4, 2019 by AHC McDonald

Bayswater Art Awards have come a long way. Once, some years ago, in a dark day for free-piss art openings, they only had an urn and teabags! With no wine!  Those that were there still bear the scars, but if … Continue reading →

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And there it is

Posted on September 27, 2017 by AHC McDonald

To all my street art friends, or as Wattsie would say, “I wrote for Bob Hope”. There it is. Ten years. Thank you one and all. All the friends met and unmet across four thousand posts and a hundred thousand … Continue reading →

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Some Last words from New York (area)

Posted on September 11, 2017 by AHC McDonald

It has really been wonderful getting BSWAM’s submissions from Hudson River Valley and surrounds. Here are a few more. Kingston Boozies – Kingston’s city-wide mural program has been met with less than unqualified praise. Rosendale again. This was before Trump was … Continue reading →

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Pubic Murals

Posted on September 4, 2017 by AHC McDonald

They do. They really do. By Steve M. Fremantle.

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