Let's Paint the City
Published Thursday 27 January, 2022 By Adrian Doyle When Howard Arkley painted a tram in 1980 for the Transporting Art project initiated...
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Street Art Crisis
By Dr. Adrian Doyle COVID has been bad for Melbourne, it has made a struggling city fall to its knees. With restaurants, galleries,...
Artists Don't Work for Free
By Adrian Doyle Published October 27 2021 Many of Melbourne’s most important lanes are being annexed by developers for giant commercial...
Creative isolation
By Adrian Doyle Published: September 23rd 2021 As we keep the city locked down Melbourne is slowly dying. As we wait for inevitable...
Melbourne's Creative 'Do-Over'
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...
Visual Junk Ruining Melbourne's Laneway Culture
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...
The Reflection of an Augmented City
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...
Is Melbourne at Risk of Losing it's Cultural Credibility?
By Adrian Doyle Published: March 25th 2021 The people disappeared, the shops shut, and the galleries closed. It has been a struggle at...
New Mural for Melbourne
By Adrian Doyle Published: February 24th 2021 As the planet completes another rotation of the sun, and things really ramp up in 2021 I...
Deck the Walls With Awesome Art
By Adrian Doyle Published: November 25th 2020 Hosier Lane has seen some hard times in the past few years, with the opening of Culture...
Cultural City
By Adrian Doyle Published: September 23rd 2020 In the 1990s Melbourne was a very different city. Most people used the city only for work....
Artists in Isolation
By Adrian Doyle – Blender Studios Published: August 26th 2020 As Melbourne is moving towards the end of lockdown 4, all the artists in...
The Stains of Time
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...
Isolated Artist
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...
Tourist Location in Total Disrepair
By Adrian Doyle Published: February 20th 2020 Hosier Lane has been an unaesthetic free-for-all for many years now. After Amac left the...
The Future of Creative Melbourne
By Adrian Doyle Published: January 22nd 2020 One of my friends who was recently painting in a local laneway runs an important blog on...
Stop Complaining About Culture
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...
Major Tourist Attraction in Decay
By Adrian Doyle Published: February 22nd 2019 So, over the past six years street art in Melbourne has dropped in quality and quantity....
I Want to Create a 'Space Bank'
By Adrian Doyle Published: October 29th 2018 In the 1990s Melbourne was a very different city. It was a suburban city, with elements of...
Our Laneways Need Serious Help
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...