The Street

Garden of Stories

You are invited to stroll along the street to enjoy works that give meaning to our shared world.

The sacred and the spectacular: how Bengal’s Durga Puja pandals morph into temporary art galleries - Aishani Gupta from MAP Academy reports on one of the world's great artistic events, held on the streets of Kolkata, for the eyes of the gods.
Steal This ✿ Melissa Cameron confesses to her role in a lawless jewellery gang - Melissa Cameron tells the story behind Melbourne's radical street jewellery scene of the 2000s.
Tiago Ishiyama ✿ It’s all or nothing in the favela - Paul Sepaniak pays tribute to his friend, an inspiring Brazilian street artist of Japanese ancestry
The World returns to Charters Towers - The Charters Towers' Wall of History returns past glory to a legendary country town.
Blurred lines: Threshold floor drawings and their mediation between private and public - Alolika De from the MAP Academy presents the rich and constantly evolving variety of traditions involving threshold decoration in India.
Industry relief: The Newport Railway Workshop Project - Geoff Hogg recounts a poignant public art project to honour the treasured history of a railway workshop
The Protest Banner Lending Library: Democracy in the making - Aram Han Sifuentes' banners aren't just about protest, the workshops for making them provide a rare opportunity for open dialogue between political differences.
Rhonda Murray ✿ The shoes of strangers - Rhonda Murray gives identity to the familiar but anonymous people who populate our streets.
The flip side: Art protest and making ceramics - Joana Partyka explains the paradox of making expressionist ceramics while also defacing masterpieces to highlight the damage of fossil fuel projects.
Petersham Escarpment: The mountain comes to the city - Through the mysterious alchemy of the kiln, Simon Reece brings the landscape of the majestic Blue Mountains to an inner urban plaza.
Cabramatta: The nostalgic poetry of Asian shops - Bic Tieu casts her childhood memories of a Sydney Indo-Chinese suburb.
Walking in the expanded field of jewellery - Roseanne Bartley recounts a series of pathfinding projects that take jewellery to and from the streets.
Vginmary: A Madonna of street art - Emma Cieslik documents Vginmary's project to re-sacralise the vulva in Poland's religious iconography.
The Big Build: Industry by needlepoint - Jessie Deane honours the ugly but beautiful industrial landscape around her, stitch by stitch.
The Selkirk House commission: Drawing is knowing - Bren Luke's illustrations highlight the precious details of heritage architecture.
Measuring up: Public art in Queensland through a craft lens - Pamela See writes about public works by Brian Robinson, Bruce Reynold and Judy Watson where the making is part of the message.
Hugs and Bugs: Everything is on the street - In response to the horror of war in her Ukrainian birthplace, Sveta Dorosheva immersed herself in the absurdist theatre of her Tel Aviv neighbourhood.
A City Canvas for refugees in Hong Kong - Sharon Tsang-de Lyster's project allows refugees in Hong Kong to make their stories public through murals.  
Street Sweepers: Adornment for outside care - Anke Kindle pays homage to the invisible labour of street cleaners with a jewellery practice that turns brushes into jewels.
Traffic Island Oasis - Sharon Massey and Sean Derry find a rare piece of public land on which to stage fanciful worlds in cardboard.
Capybara comes home - Yolanda Pocetti reintroduces the world's largest rodent to the busy commuters of Tigre.
Michelle Hamer helps us all slow down - Michelle Hamer reflects on two decades of making tapestries that lovingly render the emptiness of our urban road signs.
A “bin chicken” redemption - Napam is a street artist who lends her unique migrant perspective to walls for everyone to enjoy.
The healing wall - Through her wall mosaic, Jane du Rand brings the healing power of the Spring Mountain White Rock Conservation Estate to the Ipswich Mental Health Unit.
A shadow on the evil eye: The displaced idol makers of Dehradun - LOkesh Ghai finds one of the few idol makers on the streets of Dehradun. Now he has gone, who will protect us from the evil eye?
Chloë Waddell ✿ Make a dream home - Inspired by New York cityscapes, Chloë Waddell has developed a practice of memorialising domestic havens.
Nepalese street art: Democracy at the wall - Gary Wornell is impressed by the creativity, skill and commitment to Nepalese culture by the new generation of street artists.
Grunge and graffiti repair - In the exhibition Expressive Repair, Lela Kulkarni finds Miron Kiselev, who helps translate graffiti to textiles.

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