Street Art: Australia

Chamberlin, LouLou Chamberlin is an artist, author and arts educator. For more than 10 years Lou has been photographing and chronicling international street art. Urban Scrawl is the fifth book she has published. By visually preserving various forms of creative expression in photos, Lou contributes to a greater appreciation of the role street art plays in the cultural life of cities around the world. She has been teaching and writing about art for more than 20 years.

As you walk down the street in cities and towns across Australia from Perth to Benalla, Toowoomba to Melbourne, you might stumble across a seven-storey-high painting of a woman's face on a building; a giant echnida painted onto a wall; a tiny paste-up on the back of a telegraph pole. This glimpse of art on an otherwise dull street both transports and intrigues you: who was the artist? What is the story behind the painting?

Street art photographer Lou Chamberlin is following on from the success of her book Street Art: Melbourne with Street Art: Australia, a celebration of street art across the country, featuring the art, artists and collaborations who have shaped the street art scene in Australia over the past 10 years. You might find some recognisable artists and faces in the book, as Lou takes us, lens by lens, on an epic journey across the most exciting art in the country.