Once a lesser east-west partner of Hunter Street, King Street gained functionality, and considerable notoriety, as a city throughway in 1973 when it abutted Parry Street after carving its way through Birdwood Park.
This gallery covers roughly a decade of street art from 2005 on.
212 King St
August 2007. Above and below: Includes the rear of 301 Hunter St.
November 2019
Askew's 2013 Hit the Bricks Festival work "How the environment is constantly changing us and our individual identity."
Misc.
Above: August 2005. Between Watt and Bolton streets, around 31-ish.
360 King St ~ Interrelate
4 May 2008
279 King Street
A stairway joins Gibson Street. The staggered retaining wall challenges not only artists, it doesn’t help photographers either.26 December 2004
4 May 2008
20 December 2009
291 (Parking station)
Admate and Numbskull's multilevel "clash of styles" work on the King Street parking station.March 2016
City Motel aka Jolly Roger (many more here). Long gone and demolished for residential high-rise.7 June 2009
20 December 2009
July 2013
February 2014
With derelict structures out of the way, new vistas of the inner city became briefly accessible, as did large inviting walls to creatively vent upon.Above ~ From left, viewed north to east at "380" King Street
Above ~ looking south towards King St
Is that another effort from the ubiquitous AMF?
Resistance is never futile.
Above ~ Looking south west from the floor of a former Hunter Street shop
Love Shack at rear of King Street
January 2007 2007
61 Parry Street in 2019
Parry St. is included with King St. for the practical reason that there's nowhere else to drop these.
146 Parry Street
March 2014 ~ Around the back, that is, in what we'll call Eddie's Lane.
113 Parry Street ~ East Coast Autos
7 January 2007
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