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Illustrated Town on Oct26 2008

Kurri Kurri nsw

Kurri Kurri is a tidy town (they have awards to prove it) about 40 minutes west of Newcastle.

Image, right: The old "Store" building.

Under our "Ambiance" department I’ve added a page dedicated to Kurri. You see, the place is awash with street art.

Yep, this little village of 6000 people share and enjoy more public art than the entire City of Newcastle which - last time I looked - had around 150,000 scribblers available.

Each time I return to gather a few murals missed on the last visit, more have appeared. So the collection is not complete, and may never be!

For example, still to be added: The Maypole, Wedding, Bachelor and Working Underground, clustered around the pub, corner Lang & Victoria St.

Out of town I’m missing Heddon Greta Speedway, Abermain Newsagent, Spotters Tower (Abermain), Masonic (Weston) and Early Life (Pelaw Main public school).

Image: Kids wander past the Workers’ Club mural depicting World War 1

Oh, and the bowling club, which is a bit hard to get a good shot of.

If anyone might kindly supply GJMan with copies he would be overly grateful. Preferably not from your mobile phone, unless it’s super quality.

Email to gjman at graffitijunction dot com (make a real address of that; email harvesting robots, you know).

There’s little more to say here. This is just a pointer to the permanent page: Kurri Kurri, the Illustrated Town.

gjman is bemused admirer of commissioned and uninvited street art that flouresces and fades around Newcastle
Email this author | All posts by gjman | Topic: murals, sanctioned | Tags: kurri kurri, murals

07.05.08: s&w building ~ end near (0)

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