Now that I’m looking for it I’m seeing a lot more high quality street art sculpture. Junky Projects and Malfunction have both been busy, or maybe I am just seeing more.
I don’t know who does these well-constructed boxes: “Suggestion Box”. (Vetti says that they are by Nick Ilton, see her comment). The Suggestion Box person has also done another box: “In Case of Paranoia…” (A friend rescued this one from destruction by M/train). Both are very clever sculptures, the subversive suggestion of interactivity that they present is fun. The suggestion box idea has been done before, for example see this photo, but it is still repeatable.
In several of Melbourne’s lanes there are these castings of the space between styrofoam packing. Casting the interior space is a very Rachel Whiteread kind of idea. These sculptures show that not all street art is figurative.
How will street sculpture develop? Melbourne desperately need more sculpture in an increasingly uniform urban environment and if the government won’t do it then individuals will take action.
Anyway here are some more photos of street art sculpture from around Australia; and if you want more see my street art sculpture video.
A legal street sculpture wall next to a parking lot in Adelaide.
A detail of that same parking lot wall in Adelaide
Seen on a wall in Brisbane's West End
Junky Projects, Melbourne
Mal Function, Melbourne
March 17th, 2010 at 11:11 PM
hi! the suggestion boxes are the work of Nick Ilton – he has a show in @ Off The Kerb about them until April 2. In case of paranioa was his response to the swine flu panic…
Mal Function has also been very busy – and has a show @ Per Square Metre from March 17
Love your pic of the Mal Function @ The Tote – didn’t manage to snap it before it vanished…
May 7th, 2010 at 12:04 AM
That wall by Matej Andraz Vogrincic was one of my faves..
May 1st, 2012 at 11:19 PM
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