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Mark Holsworth, Black Mark
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Author of The Picasso Ransom, Sculptures of Melbourne and the long-running blog Black Mark - Melbourne Art & Culture Critic. He/him
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Artemis and a mini cat. #Caturday
A photo of a tabby cat with a small toy cat.
November 15, 2025 at 8:05 AM
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Gina the Hutt
Street art and Star Wars references can be cruel.
Photograph of a paste-up paper on a wall, the paper has the words "Gina the Hutt" and a picture of Jabba the Hutt's fat worm body with Gina Rienhart's head.
November 7, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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I'm quoted in Dr Penelope Jackson new book Unseen - Art and Crime in Australia.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
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Apollo and Artemis #caturday
Photo of two tabby cats
October 25, 2025 at 7:43 AM
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A pair of googly eyes and instant face pareidolia
A photo of a pair of googly eyes stuck above a crescent moon on a round sign at a tram stop.
October 25, 2025 at 5:57 AM
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Read Smut
On a wall next to the local Catholic school.
Photo of a wall with "Read Smut" spray-painted on it.
September 29, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Plantifa * Anarcotics Anonymous * Agitate * Educate * Germinate
Photograph of a round sticker stuck to a metal surface on the street. On the sicker are a green and black poppy heads and the words "Plantifa Anarcotics Anonymous Agitate * Educate * Germinate"
September 27, 2025 at 6:10 AM
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The Ergot Derivative
September 24, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Joe Jackson - No Relationship to Michael
Photo of a page with a reproduction of Joe Jackson's I'm the Man album cover with the words: "no relationship to Michael" written on it.
September 17, 2025 at 2:25 AM
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Mark Zuckerberg is Watching You
Melbourne street art, stencil paste-up
Photograph of a spray-paint stencil poster on a wall. The poster has the face of Mark Zuckerberg and the slogan "Mark Zuckerberg is watching you."
September 16, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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Teeny Fletcher, street art sculptures, Melbourne
Photo of graffiti-covered wall with a low relief cat mask on a face with love hearts and blue hair. Photo of a graffiti-covered wall with a low-relief cat mask with clouds, drips and stars.
September 16, 2025 at 8:46 AM
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Cover image is a reference to Marcel Duchamp's Coeurs Volants Fluttering Hearts
September 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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SB6Six, 'I bang the drum you shake the booty', Melbourne street art
A photo of a painting on a graffiti-covered wall of an unhappy-looking military band drummer with a smily face on the drum skin, along with the slogan 'I bang the drum you shake the booty'.
September 1, 2025 at 8:42 AM
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Death Death to the IDF
sticker in Melbourne
Photo of a sticker on a power pole with the words "Death Death to the IDF" on it.
August 29, 2025 at 12:38 AM
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VKM, skateboader, stencil, Melbourne street art.
Photograph of a city wall with graffiti, amid the graffiti is a black and white stencil of a skateboarder in an action pose.
August 23, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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This is Apollo and Artemis.
They are why I now sleep with a water pistol from 6 a.m.
Photo of two tabby cats ACAB
August 22, 2025 at 4:24 AM
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Street art mosaic of a fish seen in Yarraville.
A photo of a mosaic fish made from broken ceramics attached to a concrete wall.
August 18, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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Alan Vega - no relationship to Suzanne
Photo of an image of Alan Vega's album cover Collision Drive with a black and white photo of Alan Vega, written on the paper in marker pen is "No relationship to Suzanne".
August 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Don't Scream
Photo of a door with a sign on it in Chinese and English: Don't Scream.
August 13, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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"Fuck Israel" graffiti in Coburg.
I don't think it goes far enough.
Fuck Israel and all those who support it.
August 13, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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The words "Fuck Israel" and only those words are written in a neat hand on a black painted pillar.
August 13, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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I finally saw one of the street art sculptures Lego men. He was a little bit damaged, like an Ancient Greek statue.
Photograph of a small sculpture of a Lego man attached to the side of a building. The Lego man has the slogan "I came, I saw, I had anxiety: I left" on his shirt.
August 11, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Nathan Beard's Cicerone at Gertrude Glasshouse in Collingwood would be disturbing if it weren't so funny. All those long fingers wrapping around objects with a SE flavour.
Photo of a sculpture depicting an extremely long finger twisted completely around a durian fruit. Photo of a sculpture depicting long fingers, hands, some touching the heads of idols. Photo of a sculpture depicting two hands, one holding a flower, the other contorted back.
August 10, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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Unknown, Collingwood, street art
August 10, 2025 at 1:24 AM
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Happy International Cat Day to Artemis and Apollo.
August 8, 2025 at 4:51 AM