Published Thursday 27 January, 2022 By Adrian Doyle When Howard Arkley painted a tram in 1980 for the Transporting Art project initiated...

By Dr. Adrian Doyle COVID has been bad for Melbourne, it has made a struggling city fall to its knees. With restaurants, galleries,...

By Adrian Doyle Published October 27 2021 Many of Melbourne’s most important lanes are being annexed by developers for giant commercial...

By Adrian Doyle Published: September 23rd 2021 As we keep the city locked down Melbourne is slowly dying. As we wait for inevitable...

By Adrian Doyle Published: August 25th 2021 So, all these shops in the city have closed. And now there are whole sections of the CBD up...

By Adrian Doyle Published: June 24th 2021 It has always been a problem that young or emerging artists put their art near a far more...

By Adrian Doyle Published: May 28th 2021 There was a time when talking to yourself in public meant that you were crazy. Now when I’m at...

By Adrian Doyle Published: March 25th 2021 The people disappeared, the shops shut, and the galleries closed. It has been a struggle at...

By Adrian Doyle Published: February 24th 2021 As the planet completes another rotation of the sun, and things really ramp up in 2021 I...

By Adrian Doyle Published: November 25th 2020 Hosier Lane has seen some hard times in the past few years, with the opening of Culture...

By Adrian Doyle Published: September 23rd 2020 In the 1990s Melbourne was a very different city. Most people used the city only for work....

By Adrian Doyle – Blender Studios Published: August 26th 2020 As Melbourne is moving towards the end of lockdown 4, all the artists in...

By Adrian Doyle Published: June 25th 2020 Whether it’s the sound of the trams rattling down the road or the endless rows of amazing and...

By Adrian Doyle Published: April 23rd 2020 So, what is isolation like for an artist? It has been boring with no parties and openings and...

By Adrian Doyle Published: February 20th 2020 Hosier Lane has been an unaesthetic free-for-all for many years now. After Amac left the...

By Adrian Doyle Published: January 22nd 2020 One of my friends who was recently painting in a local laneway runs an important blog on...

By Adrian Doyle Published: September 25th 2019 It’s been a while since I have written an article. That’s because I have been busy getting...

By Adrian Doyle Published: February 22nd 2019 So, over the past six years street art in Melbourne has dropped in quality and quantity....

By Adrian Doyle Published: October 29th 2018 In the 1990s Melbourne was a very different city. It was a suburban city, with elements of...

By Adrian Doyle Published: October 29th 2018 So I run the Melbourne Street Art Tours and have done since 2008. When you go on a tour you...