{"id":214,"date":"2015-08-21T11:59:40","date_gmt":"2015-08-21T01:59:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inspectmyhome.com.au\/blog\/?p=214"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:01:01","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T05:01:01","slug":"marrickville-council-connects-home-owners-graffiti-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inspectmyhome.com.au\/blog\/marrickville-council-connects-home-owners-graffiti-artists\/","title":{"rendered":"Marrickville Council Connects Home Owners &#038; Graffiti Artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Two years ago the Marrickville Council mobilised the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.innerwest.nsw.gov.au\/art---events\/arts-and-culture\/opportunities-for-artists\/perfect-match\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perfect Match<\/a> initiative which connects home owners that have been targeted by graffiti with talented graffiti artists.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more-->The council hopes the connection will cut down on illegal street tagging and vandalism and provide an avenue for creative expression that the whole street can enjoy.<\/p>\n<p>Marrickville mayor, Mark Gardiner said, \u201cLaw and order doesn&#8217;t always work, so instead we turned to a creative way to deal with this problem.\u201d The artwork can be seen on the streets of Lewisham, Petersham and other Inner West suburbs. The huge murals which can measure anywhere up to 14 metres are both respected by the community and are not tagged over by vandals.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-public art program has been seen not to just cut down on illegal tagging but also as a way to bring the community out and about and together. Dale Chaffey believes he met more of his neighbours during the creative process which saw his home walls and caf\u00e9 walls turned into works of art. The works of artists like Birdhat, <a href=\"https:\/\/mulgatheartist.com.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mulga<\/a> and many more can be seen on the streets of Lewisham, Petersham, Newtown and Marrickville.<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/entertainment\/art-and-design\/marrickville-councils-perfect-match-between-building-owners-and-graffiti-artists-20150731-gioldj.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">READ ARTICLE<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/jam_project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">JAM Project<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two years ago the Marrickville Council mobilised the Perfect Match initiative which connects home owners that have been targeted by graffiti with talented graffiti artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nsw","category-inner-west","category-sydney"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Marrickville Connects Home Owners &amp; 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