Located in the heart of Melbourne, between (Bourke Street) and Corinth Street (Little Collins Street), Union Lane is a short, residential alley, one of Melbourne's two famous doodles (the other is Hosier Lane, Hocer Lane).
Melbourne is the art capital of Australia, and graffiti is an important cultural symbol of Melbourne. In fact, the regulations governing graffiti are quite strict. Graffiti workers need to apply to the government for permission to create works, and they also need to obtain the consent of the building owners. There are application forms available for download on the municipal government's city website. Building owners can also contact government officials to clean up graffiti on their walls, and graffiti without permission would be subject to huge fines if caught in force. But all this is only an official attitude. Ordinary people, especially graffiti enthusiasts, generally don't buy it. Most of the Melbourne graffiti is not approved by the government. They just grab a bucket and put on a mask and start creating themselves on the canvas of bricks and stones. And the government has basically turned a blind eye, and the owners of some buildings are not so harsh. Most people who find a beautiful painting on the side wall of their house are happy to accept it. Some street restaurant owners have even paid well-known graffiti painters to renovate the exterior walls of their restaurants, when the city's graffiti culture has been whispered as an important reason to attract tourists from abroad. The government began to put the art on the table and began to promote it. Melbourne may have been the first city to openly embrace and publicize graffiti. In 2004, Melbourne also hosted the Street spray painting Festival, attracting many graffiti enthusiasts from around the world. In 2006, the local government also published "Melbourne Design Guide," which interprets Melbourne's graffiti art from an artistic design perspective, and private organizations of the Melbourne graffiti sightseeing route, leading tourists to look for those beautiful paintings deep in the market. Explaining the stories involved, Melbourne also has some graffiti clubs and communities to develop graffiti skills for people interested in, as if they were painting classes in the formal Academy of Arts. Melbourne also has a number of well-known graffiti painters, who are well-known and well-known in the circle, as well as Melbourne and some well-known overseas graffiti writers. For example, the UK's most famous street graffiti painter, known for its anti-war theme, Banks (Banksy), has several works in Melbourne. When his late 1990s painting "skydiving Mouse" was inadvertently damaged by an unknowingly plumber during construction in May 2012, it also drew social condemnation. It is evident that graffiti art is deeply popular in Melbourne. Many people love to appreciate graffiti, create graffiti, and also know how to identify different painters, just as people study the characteristics of different painters in art galleries.
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