This trio has mapped hundreds of murals in Melbourne. Here are 15 of the best
So, two years ago, she teamed up with friend Andrew Haysom, and later Lia Arraiano, to add Melbourne's murals to the Street Art Cities database.
Today, Melbourne is the No.1 city in the world for total street art recorded on the platform, with 3639 masterpieces logged – up from being ranked 43rd in July 2023. This Victorian trio says it's added 3272 works.
'We've got so many wonderful artists across Melbourne,' says Haysom, who became Street Art Cities' Australian manager this year. 'That's why this city's scene is so special.'
In May, the trio lifted Australia to No.1 for total street art on the platform, which only accepts select 'hunters' with adequate photography skills to capture art and describe a work's location and background.
'It's very addictive,' says Nikolic. 'This is like the Olympics of street art.'
Melbourne's contemporary street art scene has also changed immensely in recent decades: First, there was the underground graffiti subculture of the 1980s and 1990s. Then, there was the Banksy-boom of stencils in the 2000s. Later, major murals took off in the 2010s.
But the first big wall-art installation, which helped kick-start the large murals across Melbourne today, was famed New Yorker Keith Haring's work at Collingwood Yards, which is now heritage-listed.
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