In recent decades there has been an explosion of art practice in our urban environments. Street art describes public artistic expression that appears outside traditional art venues, such as galleries.
Beginning as unsanctioned graffiti in the 1980s, street art has now evolved into a sophisticated range of practices including stencil art, poster art, spray painting, yarn bombing and installation art.
Australia has a particularly vibrant street art culture and this issue features four portraits by internationally respected artists painted in the streets of Melbourne and Adelaide.
Designer
John White, Australia Post Design Studio
Products released in this issue
- Minisheet
- First day cover (blank, gummed, minisheet)
- Maxicards
- Stamp pack
- Self-adhesive booklet of 10
Technical specifications
- Issue date
- 16 May 2017
- Issue withdrawal date
- 30 November 2017
- Denominations
- 4 x $1
- Stamp design
- John White, Australia Post Design Studio
- Product design
- John White, Australia Post Design Studio
- Printer
- EGO
- Paper - gummed
- Tullis Russell Red Phos
- Printer - self-adhesive
- EGO
- Paper - self-adhesive
- Secure Post C100
- Printing process
- Offset lithography
- Stamp size
- 26mm x 37.5mm
- Perforations
- 14.6 x 13.86
- Sheet layout
- Module of 50
- FDI postmark
- Melbourne, VIC 3000
- FDI withdrawal date
- 14 June 2017
Adnate’s large-scale works can be seen all over the world. Commissioned by the City of Melbourne, his 23 metre mural of an Indigenous boy was painted in Hosier Lane, Melbourne, in 2014.
Influential Adelaide-based artist Vans the Omega painted the vivid female portrait on a house in Railway Terrace, Adelaide, in 2015.
Australian artists Rone and Phibs collaborated on Forever curious, the expressive portrait of a woman in Rutledge Lane, Melbourne, in June 2013. As is the ephemeral nature of much street art, it was painted over with blue paint by another artist only two months later.
Read our interview with Rone.
Irish artist Fin DAC employed a stencil and spray paint technique to create the mural Shinka, as part of the Little Rundle Street Art Project in Adelaide in early 2016.
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