I love being proved wrong. Last year I wrote in this blog:
“Although Melbourne has many footpath decorations and a great street art scene writing/tagging in wet cement has not become a street art form. I have never seen anything in sidewalk concrete that could be called art, no matter how broadly you want to apply the term. It is the most basic of text and slogans. Scratching into wet cement is a largely an opportunistic act. (The character of Wanda from the Canadian sit-com Corner Gas is a serial wet concrete graffiti writer, see Season 5, Episode 16 “Coming Distractions”.)”
As I love being proved wrong, I have been keeping my eyes open for art done in wet cement footpaths. The fish scales on the concrete of Ilham Lane in Brunswick were better than average but then on the Fitzroy housing estate, just behind the three giant Matryoshka Dolls, I saw the best incised drawing on wet concrete that I have yet seen.
It was not by street artists but local aboriginal artists, not old school but ancient traditions. The traditional forms make the work both artistic and relevant in the area. These simple incised drawings shows that traditions can be kept alive in the urban environment and that even concrete paving can be part of street decoration.
P.S. Even better on a suburban street in Coburg, Melbourne.
Black Mark 
October 14th, 2014 at 5:34 PM
This is awesome – especially the adaptation of ancient artforms to subtly reclaim a part of inner Melbourne that used to be a traditional (and until recently still used) Koori meeting place. Concrete being such a longlasting medium too.
October 14th, 2014 at 6:54 PM
Yes, from petrogyphs to concrete the tradition survives.