Today is the birthday of the Land Of Sunshine blog – the 8th year to the day of posting about Melbourne street art and graffiti and what better way to celebrate than to show the progress shots of this incredible mural by Lucy Lucy. For years I have loved the French street artist’s style and […]

The first time I really spent time with LING was years ago when we worked together on a project for a musical festival in Melbourne. Since then, I have seen loads of the incredible graffiti pieces he has painted on the streets, under bridges, and in abandoned factories – all done with some serious skills. […]

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As a documenter of street art and graffiti myself, there are some other photographers out there that I respect and admire – first and foremost Henry Chalfant and Martha Cooper for their amazing efforts in the 70’s and 80’s in New York, and then comes Rennie Ellis who was taking photos of graffiti he spotted in the lanes and […]

This is what happens when you throw two street artists on a killer wall and let them go nuts. Deams and Shida couldn’t be more opposite – one extremely strict using perfect straight lines, curves and geometry, the other more organic and fluid with bodies that weightlessly dance. I am pretty fortunate that I get […]

This country is clearly divided about marriage equality, in fact I think the issues surrounding the topic have brought out some of the the best and the worst in Australians. I still do not understand why the politicians are spending millions of our tax dollars to pay for this process when they could have, SHOULD […]

Sunshines Top 10 Melbourne Street Art & Graffiti – August 2017

There is no denying that Melbourne’s LUSH is getting up around town like no other. The media can not get enough of him and his political and celebrity meme driven work on the streets with Seinfeld taking a photo at his portrait in Fitzroy just the other day. He was even foolishly mistaken for Banksy […]

Sunshines Top 10 Melbourne Street Art & Graffiti – July 2017

Sunshines Melbourne Graffiti & Street Art Top 10 – June 2017

There are certain artists that really inspire me and my imagination – I see their work around town, don’t know their identity and yet fall in LOVE with what they do. I look at Bode Klein’s previous work on the streets and think wow, what an awesome message, clearly a lot of thought has gone […]

Sunshines Top 10 Melbourne Street Art & Graffiti – May 2017

Sunshines Top 10 Melbourne Street Art & Graffiti – April 2017

Sunshines Top 10 Melbourne Street Art & Graffiiti – March 2017

I recently supplied a list of Melbourne murals to Vogue. The brief was to show a range of different street art which were still available for anyone to go and track down and see for themselves in reality and in context… see the article and all thirty two murals here http://www.vogue.com.au/culture/features/galleries/melbourne+street+art+map,41820

Sunshines Top 10 Melbourne Street Art & Graffiti – February 2017