Street Art Graffiti

Information on the Colour in Canberra competition and graffitis and murals

Notices

• The Turner Tennis club, hit up walls, are no longer a legal graffiti practice site. Painting at this location is an offence.
• A painted traffic control box as part of the Colour-in Canberra Competition was destroyed in a motor vehicle accident at the corner of Callum Street and Corinna Street in Woden.
• Due to competing priorities. No graffiti will be removed by the government from privately owned assets. For more information please call the Graffiti Hotline on Ph: 13 22 81. (15 Dec 2006)
• For information on, Do it Yourself graffiti removal kits or to arrange purchase please call the Graffiti Hotline on Ph: 13 22 81. (15 Dec 2006)

Street Art Graffiti

Community Art is art that is generated, organised and produced by the community. It can take the form of painted murals in high profile places such as shopping centres, bus interchanges and underpasses. Graffiti Art is practised by young people for a variety of reasons and is often seen as graffiti vandalism. Sites for community art include underpasses, toilets, dressing sheds in parks and ovals, tennis walls and privately owned buildings. These are selected on location and approved by the asset owner.

Murals

Community murals help to brighten and enrich public spaces and give people a sense of ownership, pride and commitment to their community. They also have the effect of making public places more attractive and less prone to vandalism.

Benefits of community art projects include:

• reduction and control of graffiti at specific community locations by encouraging each group to take pride in and responsibility for maintaining their work;
• an enhanced understanding of the roles and values of community groups in each location; and
• reduction of vandalism to community assets

Legal graffiti Art sites are available to graffiti writers on an ongoing basis. Community Art Murals are commissioned in areas where graffiti art is inappropriate. The Police, City Rangers and contracted graffiti removers are notified that the particular site has been given the status of a legal wall and the artists are given approval to paint there.

• Legal graffiti art site guidelines 30th May 2006
• Community Graffiti Art Brochure 14th January 2005 ( PDF )