Melbourne Places

Get the flavour of East Timor at the Gallery in the St Kilda Town Hall – enter from Carlisle Street.  The gallery is opposite the cashier in the foyer.  You can check out the gallery when you pay for parking permits, rates or other council fees, or just pop  in and take a look. The [...]

Mirrors! A bit of magic on grey, busy Hoddle Street.  Step away from the noise and the dust and into the wonderland of the  Mirror Mirror Gallery. Try this when you want time-out, are curious or want to check out a mirror for your home.  See if your mood changes when you step through the [...]

Thomas Demand is a conceptual artist where photography is an essential part of the end product.  The photograph is then mounted on Plexiglass. I got to see Thomas Demand’s exhibition, which is now showing at the National Gallery of Victoria, because the price was included in the ticket for Jeff Wall’s Photographs at the Ian [...]

I went to this exhibition because photographs make up so much of our every day.  We snap everything.  A table we might buy, the cafe we’re in, the food we’re eating, our latest nail polish effect, our cat doing something silly and so on. We send these quick pics to our friends and family with [...]

Is graf art or urban art taking on a new look? Where are the strong and vibrant colours we usually see in a piece? This piece decorates the wall along the side of Westbury Street as it intersects with Carlisle Street in Balaclava. I love it.  I don’t miss the vibrant wake-me up colours. It [...]

Raglan Street runs along-side the railway line near the Balaclava station. On Sunday morning the street-scape featured a shrink wrapped car. It was very well wrapped. It would have taken a number of packs of cling wrap to secure the vehicle is such a way. There should be a prize for the person who can [...]

Graff Art in Alma Park lifted my spirits on a cold dull winter morning. The wall that separates the Army Reserve buildings from the park are a magnet for Graff Art as well as what I think of as ugly badly formed tags. This Piece is one of the best. I love the colours, the [...]

The St Kilda community has created a wall to bring people together rather than shut them off from each other.  They are calling it the Great Wall of St Kilda. This wall is 11 metres x 5 meters and made of clay tiles, in total 807 tiles. Two hundred and seven large tiles that capture [...]