Category Archives: worst art

Save Our Blank Walls

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

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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No Radical Text for The Sound Alternative

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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And there it is

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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Cigs

UWA. Lawrence Wilson gallery. We have probably covered this before. Without the smoking. 

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Echo Chamber

Two art pieces fight it out in Maylands’ bustling 8th Avenue. The ironic public phone and the tongue in cheek Jesus Jockey. Get a room dudes.  In any case it’s all a barely suppressed up yours to stagnant Bayswater next … Continue reading

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 What am I looking at?

Fremantle street yak. What am I looking at? By 1 Up. Are you looking at me? I don’t see anyone else here with a bankrupt ugg boot shop. Are you looking at me?

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Outrage Sunday 298 empathy

Enough with the UK election and the Comey covfefe and the Twitter madness. Time for a shot of night-time tranquility, empathy, and integrity. KK took this on the way home from a musical event (or “gig”, as they say). How … Continue reading

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No Artists!

Wanneroo has taken a tough stance against artists. Is it to protect their ill conceived, crappily crafted and poorly placed tilt ups from the beard spraying cans of Stormie Mills? Or are artists (rather than legitimate buyers) hogging the jumbo … Continue reading

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More walls

Reign of Error continues to document Fitzroy. I was thinking yeah, maybe, until I saw the bear. We don’t have a monopoly on beard dudes. Or maybe it’s where we get ours from. 

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