This is the most visible of the art locations in the street; there are now seven. This guy works in marble, seems fairly traoitional. There's also a gallery, with a new exhibition weekly/fortnightly. A glass artist (also painter), two media-unknown-but-by-repute, and a
timber-based craft/art workshop collective. And for the seventh, I'm including the graffiti artists, because this is the second major and imposing work, and they're a big improvement on industrial briok walls. The making of the
first piece was filmed: this piece appeared while we were away - I think the authorship overlaps the original, but I haven't analysed it systematically.
That's not including coffee art. This is from "Two Blokes", technically on Chapel St., the
second bike maintenance /coffee shop in Marrickville, also the sixth coffee place on the Illawarra /Sydenham/Victoria/Addison block. (If I allowed myself a 50 metre extension, I could add four more). Lots of things to like here, timber/brick light/shade ambience, great crockery vis-a-vis colour and texture, $2 long blacks, and a small-simple-cheap menu. Plus, indestructible coffee art: that cappuchino is already half drunk!
We also have a new car-replacement company, who've painted their premises, the old panel beater's has gone for a major facelift and now looks very smick and #'s 8 and 10 are reinstating their wrought iron balconies.
Those verge gardens are growing up in a whole new neighbourhood.
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