A detailed response to the City of Melbourne's draft Graffiti Management Policy 2026. Recommendations at the end.
Consultation response to the City of Melbourne Draft Graffiti Management Policy 2026
ABC Radio graffiti conversation with David Astle
As part of my response to the City of Melbourne Graffiti Management Policy 2026 draft, I went on live radio for a conversation with David Astle on his program Victorian Evenings.
Melbourne loves graffiti. So why is it spending millions to remove it?: article out now in Pursuit
A new policy promises round-the-clock graffiti reporting and removal. But do these proposed changes accurately reflect Melbourne's love-hate relationship with urban culture?
Urban Visual Dialogues 5: BLOCK TOWN by Lachlan MacDowall book launch
Join us for the book launch of Lachlan Macdowall’s BLOCK TOWN, a visual ethnography of security architecture in Melbourne.
Urban Surfaces Research Network workshop in Uppsala, Sweden: Art, Advertising, and Methods of Surfacing the City
That's a wrap for our seminar series funded by the Urban Studies Foundation, with "Art, advertising, and methods of surfacing the city" hosted by Tom Ward at Uppsala University.
COME WRITE HERE residency at MPavilion Parkville
Our public space mark-making project returned to MPavilion this September. After a successful iteration with SURFACITY in 2025, Chris Parkinson and I were invited to bring back our fencing, boards and painting tools to University Square, for a week of artist residencies, workshops, and collaborative mark-making.
I’m hiring! Research Assistant in Urban Visual Governance role now open for applications
Do you dream of interviewing walls, graffiti writers, and graffiti removers? I am hiring! 📢
Urban Visual Dialogues 4: Urban art and vandalism in Marikina and Melbourne
Join us to hear about municipal graffiti removal strategies as a form of urban art in the Philippines, and aesthetic practices inspired by buff in Melbourne.
My first keynote!
I gave my first keynote at the Cultural Geography symposium at the University of Melbourne on 2 July 2026. The title of my paper was "Walls speak. A research agenda for urban surfaces", and I presented some of my progress in thinking about surfaces.
