Over recent years, Australian cities have started to take on a new vibrancy, boasting a spate of outdoor artistic spaces, well-designed street murals, and clever and colourful graffiti that includes social comment and political portraiture.
Large bare concrete walls are increasingly the domain of street artists. The clandestine late night aerosol-spraying of fences and buildings by a masked graffiti artist has now frequently evolved into an accepted and recognised art form.