Street art in Melbourne

Melbourne, the capital of Victoria and the second largest city in Australia, has gained international acclaim for its diverse range of street art and associated subcultures. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, much of the city's disaffected youth were influenced by the graffiti of New York City, which subsequently became popular in Melbourne's inner suburbs, and along suburban railway and tram lines.

Melbourne was a major city in which stencil art was embraced at an early stage, earning it the title of "stencil capital of the world";^[1] the adoption of stencil art also increased public awareness of the concept of street art.^[2] The first stencil festival in the world was held in Melbourne in 2004 and featured the work of many major international artists.^[2]