Blender Lane artwork

Blender Lane artwork
Mark BaljakApril 15, 2013

Blender Lane and its artwork is the most visible legacy of a concept first created by celebrated street artist Adrian Doyle during the year 2000. While an extensive rundown of Blender Studios can be found here, the practice's aim is simple - "Blender has become more of an art complex and ideas factory where nearly anything goes. It is self-sustainable and tries to bring art to everyone."

To that end  Blender Lane off 110 Franklin St, Melbourne now pays homage to Blender Studios with a body of work from a variety of artists that is regularly changing. Whilst art installation such as those below appear occasionally, Blender Lane is best known for its free-hand paintings.

Blender Lane artwork

Having never heard of Blender Lane until earlier this year I paid the Lane a visit recently, with camera in tow.

Mark Baljak

Mark Baljak was a co-founder of Urban.com.au. He passed away on Thursday 8th of November 2018 after a battle with cancer. He was 37. Mark was a keen traveller, having visited all six permanently-inhabited continents and had a love of craft beer. One of his biggest passions was observing the change that has occurred in Melbourne over the past two decades. In that time he built an enormous library of photos, all taken by him, which tracked the progress of construction on building sites from across metropolitan Melbourne.

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