Art Out in Newtown (North); Self-Guided Tour
Suggested route below (but start anywhere or in either direction) featuring Galleries, Street Art, Cafes & Bars
1989 Arcade Bar
A Street Fighter 2 World Champion practices here – 1989 Arcade Bar has one of the best collections of dark beer in Sydney with packed arcade machines and retro Art on every level (Virtual Tour) & Kerrie Lowe Gallery is right across the road (Virtual Tour)
Eden and the Willow
Eden and the Willow took its name from the former on-site beauty clinic; now “focusing on the inner beauty.” A new Newtown Gallery curated by Founder Ivan Buljan, the Gallery hosts performances and talks with ‘Shifting Horizons’ & ‘Awakening’ so far the major exhibitions to date (Virtual Tour)
Church Street Art
Prolific Muralist Fintan Magee’s ‘Flood emergency supply drop’ was completed in 2013 (Virtual Tour) with yet another work featured further down Church Street (Virtual Tour)
Lennox Street Art
‘Promise’ (2016) & “Women’s Honour” (2019) by Ox King & Brad Robson respectively are a part of the Inner West Council’s Edge Art project. Ox King’s subject Eliza Emily Donnithorne is said to have inspired Dickens’ Mrs Havisham while Robson’s work was inspired by the 2019 Women’s Honour Roll (Virtual Tour); head around the corner for Alex Lehours ‘The Devine Within’
Camperdown Memorial Rest Park
Ox King’s Mural is a part of the Inner West Council’s Edge Art project (Virtual Tour) with more Murals skirting the Newtown Festival home (Virtual Tour)
212 Blu
Coffee specialists, 212 Blu features illustrations by Daniel Steele Jon Aldridge completed in July 2020 (Virtual Tour). If you’re feeling a beer Sydney Illustrator and Photographer Scotty Williams’ ‘Going Nowhere’ Mural acknowledging Cadigal Country sits astride the Courthouse ‘Courty’ Hotel just next door (Virtual Tour) with the other half of the work just over on Eliza Street, Newtown (Virtual Tour)
King Street
Juilee Pryor and Andrew Aiken’s iconic ‘I Have A Dream’ Newtown Mural was completed over a weekend in August 1991. You can also find one of Captain Earwax’ recognisable abstract portraitures at this juncture (Virtual Tour)
If you’re feeling like a copy swing over to Beantown en route to the next stop and check out their 3D house Mural!
Whateley Lane
One of Newtown’s two most iconic murals, the other situated right across the road, Whateley Lane’s Africa rendering has gone through numerous iterations accomodating geographic changes (Virtual Tour). It sits astride the Newtown Mission
Wilson Lane
The Wilson Lane Car Park mural is as large as any building on King Street and tucked a block away from Newtown’s busiest corner (Virtual Tour)
Rising Sun Workshop
Good for a signature ramen, coffee or to fix your bike, Rising Sun Workshop features regular exhibitions and when COVID-19 hit, instead of cancelling Christopher Pearce’s show Rising Sun blew up the Art and featured it all along it’s facade for all to see (Virtual Tour)
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