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At pavement graffiti asphalt rules and grey is good. The focus is on roadways and footpaths, and ‘graffiti’ means anything written, drawn, scrawled or stencilled on them.
At pavement graffiti we will traverse the asphalt, concrete, flagstones and cobbles. And we will contemplate the inscriptions there — from graffiti tags to public artworks, children’s games to political slogans, stencilled ads to personal messages, traffic signs to memorial plaques, manhole covers to mysterious marks.
I have been photographing pavement graffiti since 1999. Now I am taking a closer look at those photographs for a postgraduate project at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
I welcome your comments. Or perhaps you would like to be a guest blogger? Let me know.
Megan
#1 by woo on 7 May 2009 - 10:12 am
Excellent, thanks for the trackback – I’ll pop by again, sounds like an interesting project
#2 by John Ake on 18 June 2009 - 7:16 pm
Had a read of the blog and it’s great. I’ll stop by every now and then and keep up with the any changes and updates.
It’s very hard to go past Arthur Stace’s effort. The very simplicity of that word – eternity – speaks volumes .. it’s poetic, prophetic and the lettering is artistically attractive. My prediction is, this simple “artwork” and it’s message, will reverberate down the generations long after you and I are gone.
I’ve just been watching the Channel 9 evening news and they carried a story on three (3) aussie males prosecuted in London for their graffiti work on London trains – “train graffiti”. Apparently they’d done the same in Japan and Spain and are reputedly part of an international train-graffiti movement.
#3 by Lisa Orander on 19 April 2010 - 4:14 pm
Hi! My name is Lisa Orander. I’m a student at Sydney Film School. We are shooting a short film and are in need of a chalk artist. I googled and found this blogg. I just wondering if you have any contacs with artists that could possibly think of coming a do a drawing of our film shoot?
Kind Regards / Lisa Orander
#4 by Colin Hubert on 19 July 2010 - 6:07 pm
On Wilson St – http://www.flickr.com/photos/25063581@N08/4806718733/
#5 by Att store wireless on 16 September 2010 - 3:28 pm
It’s very hard to go past Arthur Stace’s effort. The very simplicity of that word – eternity – speaks volumes .. it’s poetic, prophetic and the lettering is artistically attractive. My prediction is, this simple “artwork” and it’s message, will reverberate down the generations long after you and I are gone.
+1
#6 by Jennifer Preston on 20 January 2011 - 1:15 pm
Very interesting project. Have you come across graffiti on public stairways? If so do you think the stairway influences the design or type of graffiti? I am writing a PhD on Sydney’s public stairways.
Jen
#7 by megan on 25 January 2011 - 7:18 pm
Your project sounds lovely, Jen. Now that you have me thinking about graffiti on public stairways, I am going to dig out some photos and have a closer look at them (and a closer think about them).
Best wishes
Megan
#8 by dimitrios kianidis on 19 July 2011 - 9:00 pm
I have just completed a self published book on footpath graffiti in Brunswick and Coburg in Melbourne, Victoria. I have about 400 images .. mostly text, and all quite interesting to read. Happy to share if you’re studying this type of ‘social comment’ and ‘street art’.
#9 by Saving Our Trees on 15 November 2011 - 11:20 am
Hi Megan, I recently photographed some stencilled advertising on the footpath for the new IKEA at Tempe & thought of you. I’ll send them if you are interested.
#10 by megan on 15 November 2011 - 8:00 pm
I’d love to see them, thanks.