Art on the Streets
Chalk the Walk Newcastle
24 September – 2 October 2022
Youth Chalk Art Workshop
September 21
Students from Newcastle High Cooks Hill Campus got down and chalky with Artist Dom Intelisano in Kuwami Place. The year 10 group learnt the basics of 3D street art technique and created their own immersive artwork to pose on and interact with.
This activity was proudly sponsored by Quest Newcastle.
3D art trail
September 24 – October 2, 2022
Explore the trail of amazing concrete canvases stretched across Newcastle’s beautiful CBD at your own pace and pleasure. Step into the 3D artworks, become part of the illusion and share your magic moments with us using #NewCTW.
Dial Dali
Artist: Anton Pulvirenti
Location: Kuwami Place, Hunter St
Anton’s artwork Dial Dali is a tribute to the great surrealism masters best-known work The Persistance of Memory and his famous Lobster Telephone sculptures. In the style of the painter himself, it’s an unexpected combination of objects, resulting in an artwork that is both playful and menacing.
Paint like Margaret Olley
Artist: Jenny McCracken
Location: Newcastle Visitor Information Centre
Paint like Margaret Olley. Margaret is one of the most widely recognised figures in Australian art. Born in Lismore, she fell in love with Newcastle, setting up a studio locally and documenting the city through her painting.
Jenny has drawn inspiration from Margarets own studio and paintings, much like the painter did herself capturing the beauty of the objects and scenery around her.
Pictured: Councillor Dr Elizabeth Adamczyk with Jenny McCracken
The Thinker
Artist: Leonardo Uribe
Location: Cnr Laman and Darby St
Leonardo’s caped interpretation of Auguste Rodin’s sculpture The Thinker might be considered a comment on the way society regards todays street artists in comparison to the masters that are exhibited in galleries and collections across the world.
Rodin was considered by some to be the founder of modern sculpture and when he isn’t creating great 3d street art, Leo is a sculptor in his own right exhibiting works in galleries across Australia.
Food for thought!
The Living Statue
Artist: Mealie B
Location: Civic Park
All the greatest sculptures are displayed on a beautiful plinth! For this years “Art on the Streets” Art Trail, Mealie B has created a classically styled plinth so that anyone passing through Civic Park for the New Annual Festival can pose easily as a Living Statue.
Pose on your own, with a dog, with a friend or the all-in like the Chalk the Walk team!
Son of Man
Artist: Fiesta Concarne
Location: Cnr Council and Darby St
René Magritte was a Belgian surrealist who became well-known for his witty and thought-provoking images.
Australian Artist Fiesta Concarne is certainly proving himself up to the task of paying homage to this great master with his version of the Son of Man, and the use of 3D street art technique is the perfect way to demonstrate how Magritte’s style and subject matter was designed to challenge his observers' preconditioned perceptions of reality.
Escape from Escher
Artist: Mealie B
Location: Hunter Street Mall
Mealie B’s artwork Escape from Escher may be smaller than the others in this years Chalk the Walk trail, but its packed full of the great detail, mind-blowing symmetry and explorations of perspective that the great master was known for.
Plus…. that lizard is damn cute to pose with for a photo :)
Photo credit: Newy with Kids
Starry Night
Artist: Rudy Kistler
Location: The Station
One of the most recognised pieces of art in the world, it was natural that Rudy Kistler would bring Van Gogh’s Starry Night to the streets of Newcastle. Rudy’s personal paintings lean toward an impressionist style and in this piece he has created a 3D illusion, depicting the painting as a jigsaw puzzle.
Whilst fun to pose on, it may also be interpreted as a comment on how commercialised this image has become with its popularity. Van Gogh had committed himself to an asylum at the time this painting was created, so the unstable nature of the jigsaw is a great visual reference for how he may have been feeling at this time in his life.
Photo credit: Newy with Kids
Local Artist Competition
November, 2022
Local Newy Artists were invited to chalk up the streets in our Local Artist Competition on Darby Street in Newcastle.
Here are the winners from that event:
Grand Prize: Liana Goninon
Highly Commended Award: Mariko Konno
Creative Expression Award: Sharnie Withers