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Canberra: graffiti « Previous | |Next »
June 19, 2007

It's very discreet, but its there:

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Gary Sauer-Thompson, Graffiti, Canberra. 2006

The graffiti I mean, in the form of tagging.

| Posted by Gary Sauer-Thompson at 12:22 AM | | Comments (2)
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I've just moved to Canberra from Melbourne (5 months now). I'm a fan of graffiti, even the ugly stuff. I find it more interesting than a bland grey electricity box. melbourne is spoilt by the quality of its public art. unfortunately in canberra, public art seems to mean political monument.

i notice you described Canberra as more like a country town than a small city. i think its more accurate to describe it as an isolated suburbia. Canberra doesn't have the population density that makes a city and is too spread out to offer the charm of a town.

nevertheless, i liked it enough to move here, and i guess i'll find out if i like it enough to stay.

bigzlilk,
yes you are probably right about Canberra being suburbia--a series of suburbias as it is a very elongated garden city.

I only know Kingston, Forrest, Barton including the Manuka shops. I walk and catch taxis when I'm working here so I do not really know Canberra.

I caught the taxi out to Woden and back today and I noticed a lot of colourful graffitti