Many of his works were created on buildings without permission and were therefore created illegally, but a work by Banksy is now more likely to become an international tourist attraction than be removed by the local council.Ĭlearly not every work is going to be of that standard and councils around the country have rejuvenated dead spaces by working together with street artists. His works are now sold for millions, highly sought-after and much imitated. Last week Senator Michael McDowell wrote an opinion piece arguing that street art without permission is vandalism and that most of the work in Dublin is so sub-standard it doesn’t deserve to be called art.Īny discussion about street art will invariably bring up the name of Banksy. It can tell a story, it can provoke, it can educate and enrich an area. Today, street walls, gables and derelict buildings are the modern rocks and caves.įor two centuries the Aboriginal community was marginalised in Australia and their culture ignored.īut through art they were able to express themselves and that’s why street art is so important. Nothing compares to Sinead O'Connor's voiceīy comparison, Newgrange, which has almost 100 kerbstones featuring rock art patterns itself, is only about 5,000 years old.Īboriginal rock art is the oldest uninterrupted artistic tradition in the world.Oscar Wilde's nephew really packed a punch.It starts with two Aboriginal feet to symbolise that the first people in Australia were the indigenous people 40,000-60,000 years ago - not Captain Cook 250-odd years ago.Īnd the mural is a great example of Aboriginal art, a tradition that is thousands of years old.Ī two-metre long painting of a kangaroo in Kimberley is the oldest known intact Aboriginal rock painting at around 17,000 years old. READ MORE: There’s a difference between collecting and hoarding - when a habit becomes an unhealthy obsessionīack then, it was a disadvantaged area lacking in many of the amenities that more wealthy parts of the city enjoyed, but a place that was bursting with life, noise and colour. Many years ago myself and some friends shared a house in Redfern while living in Sydney for a year.
It's the first thing you see when you come out of Redfern train station in Sydney.Ī mural celebrating the culture of Australia’s indigenous people that reads: ‘40,000 years is a long, long time.’įirst painted in 1983, the mural became a symbol for the Aboriginal civil rights movement and was restored as recently as 2018.
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