Hosier Lane is a cobblestone artery choked with layers of spray paint, where the walls serve as a revolving gallery for street artists. This narrow passage earned its reputation in the late nineties when city officials embraced an urban…
Melbourne Laneway Art Walk
This walk takes you through Melbourne's iconic hidden alleyways to see how raw graffiti, towering murals, and quirky installations transformed the city's cobblestone lanes into an open-air art gallery.
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1. Hosier Lane
2. AC/DC Lane Graffiti
AC/DC Lane is a narrow, brick-walled alleyway in Melbourne that serves as a permanent, rotating canvas for street artists. The city officially renamed the former Corporation Lane in two thousand four to honor the band, mounting a street…
3. Duckboard Place Graffiti
Duckboard Place is a narrow, dead-end lane defined by walls covered in layers of aerosol art, paste-ups, and tags that stretch from the pavement to the fire escapes. While most of the city’s graffiti is scrubbed away, these brick surfaces…
4. Croft Alley Graffiti
Croft Alley is a narrow, compressed corridor between buildings that serves as a constantly shifting gallery for aerosol art. Unlike the sanctioned, city-run laneways nearby, this space operates through an informal agreement between the…
5. Drewery Lane Street Art
The walls along Drewery Lane are covered in layers of aerosol paint that change every few weeks. While other parts of Melbourne have designated street art zones, this narrow alleyway functions as a rotating canvas for artists who often…
6. Union Lane
Union Lane is a narrow, compressed corridor that slices through the block between Bourke Street and Little Collins Street. Its walls are plastered with thick, overlapping layers of aerosol art, created by a rotating roster of street…
7. Presgrave Place Artwork
Presgrave Place is a narrow, dead-end alleyway in Melbourne where the walls are covered in framed pictures, small mirrors, and mismatched objects. It functions as an unofficial, rotating outdoor gallery. In two thousand and eleven, local…