Colour Eclipse Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
By n0w0rries on 22-Jan-17. Waypoint GA9626

Right in the heart of the city, Hosier lane is a must see with your camera. It may be debatable whether Graffiti spoils the look of the city or is an art form, but this lane surely is very interesting and gives a different feel to it.

  Melbourne is known as one of the world's great street art capitals for its unique expressions of art on approved outdoor locations.
Street art includes stencils, paste-ups and murals.

The ever-changing nature of the art on the walls of Hosier Lane means that it will be different every time you walk through.
The stencil-work and graffiti art makes for a lot of variety on the walls

HOSIER LANE

Hosier Lane lies opposite the entrance to the Atrium at Federation Square on Flinders St, a prominent position in the city.

Framed at the Flinders Street end by the minaret of the Forum and lined with piss-addled doorways, the majority of the laneway’s allure arrives from its seductive sangria of street art: cartoons, shrooms, vampire faces, Brixton briefcase, girls, monsters and ninjas, laughing skulls and skeletal hugs. The lassoed layers of filth, tags and rags providing an uplifting array of stories, rhymes and lullabies to paralyse.

Right in the heart of the city, Hosier lane is a must see with your camera. It may be debatable whether Graffiti spoils the look of the city or is an art form, but this lane surely is very interesting and gives a different feel to it.

Take a moment and make a detour here. The entire alleyway is covered with great street art that is bursting with creativity and beauty. It's completely different from the city center that will leave you thinking that you were transported somewhere else.

Cool, cluttered and collected, Hosier Lane is one of Melbourne’s most obvious attractions. But unlike many of the city’s hidden or long-reaching laneways, Hosier provides an easily accessible example of how the council allows Melbourne’s minds to wander.

RUTLEDGE LANE

Halfway along Hosier is Rutledge Lane; a surrealistic Super Mario shoot off that sucks in the soul through a cluster bomb of creativity before cutting them adrift at the opposite end of the laneway.

Regularly displays work from emerging underground artists located all over Australia. The theme is loose, experimental, conceptual, and never cut from main cloth.

Recently in the news spotlight (26 Aug 2013) due to Artist Adrian Doyle using 150 litres of a single colour of paint to cover all the existing graffiti in Rutledge Lane, off Hosier Lane. A team helped him paint the lane after receiving permission from Melbourne City Council.

Melbourne Mayor Robert Doyle says it was a deliberate idea to give Rutledge Lane a blank canvas for emerging artists. "That really is the lane where our next generation of artists will learn their craft and learn the culture of street art and the respect that goes with it," he said.

There may be more to Melbourne than the life that lies living and breathing in this alley, but for a newcomer it’s the starting gun for a sprint through the artistic side of the city. A way to engage and acquire, a direction to point and shoot – a tourist’s hand rail to hades, if you will.

DON'T FORGET YOUR CAMERA!!!!!!

PLEASE ADD PICS TO YOUR LOG TO SHOW THE EVER CHANGING, EVER EVOLVING LANES OF MELBOURNE

THANK YOU AND ENJOY

TO LOG THIS VIRTUAL CACHE YOU WILL NEED AT LEAST ONE PHOTO INCLUDING YOU OR YOUR GPSr AND ONE OF THE STREET SIGNS OR THE NAMED NO STANDING SIGNS.
EITHER HOSIER OR RUTLEDGE LANES.

(An honourable mention for  KRAZYK:-p for the original GC cache - 'GC4M00Y Colour Eclipse' in Rutledge Lane.)

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