Tastey Street Art Fest 2011 a hit
WITH a final splash of colour and the hiss of an aerosol can, the new face for Grafton St's legal graffiti wall has been declared finished.
Australia’s best graffiti and street artists descended on Cairns over the weekend for the Tastey Street Art Fest – three days of painting, workshops, skate demonstrations and parties that saw the mega 75m wall given a new skin.
Beginning life as a collaborative project with local arts collective The Upholstery in 2009, Tastey has developed the concept over the past three years to the point where it’s one of Australia’s most recognised and loved legal street art projects, attracting artists and art-lovers from around the world.
It was voted 2009’s The Alley Project and 2010’s Tastey Graf Jam as winner of Best Art Show or Exhibition in the timeOUT Awards two years running and has seen many other local businesses signing up for their own legal graffiti wall, according to Josie Zulaikha from Tastey who says it will get bigger and better.
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Tastey: Caroline Mudge leaves her indelible imprint in Cairns. Picture: BRENDAN FRANCIS
