Outpost 14 November 2011

Had a late breakfast with the girls in Redfern and then to the city so I could get some thongs and change into shorts. It was really warming up. Cockatoo Island was next, off on the ferry across Sydney harbour, very tourist like. We were visiting to see Outpost, a street art collection with various collaborators and exhibits.
Banksy was supposed to be a pretty big part of it from what I'd understood, but as it goes I thought that Banksy's collection was fairly thin on the ground and very uninspiring, definitely in comparison to what was there in full size and had been painted "live" - all of Banksy's items were prints and only house painting size, whereas all of the other art was without fail massive and hand painted.

I found this stuff really inspiring. You (or I know I did) think of graffiti and street art as being really rough and uninspired, but the thing that struck me when viewing these close up was how crisp and well executed all of the paintwork was done.
It's a rough medium, but it's a smooth art.

Oh, and I really love bright colours, and this stuff provides.