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The Wonderwalls Street Art trail in Port Adelaide has expanded in spectacular style

Discover the incredible new artwork scattered around Port Adelaide this year as the Port Adelaide Street Art returns with new talent.

Image credit: City of Port Adelaide.

Following this year’s incredible Wonderwalls Street Art Festival in Port Adelaide on March 4th, the unbelievable, growing collection of large-scale murals in the area has again expanded.

The event showcased world class live painting and installations, and hosted numerous artists which saw the creation of 8 new murals as part of this iconic street art festival.

Over the years since its inception, Wonderwalls has transformed the streets of Port Adelaide with over 80 murals by local, national and internationally renowned street artists.

These unique works of art will take you along a trail of discovery through the streets and encourage you
to explore and uncover the secrets of Port Adelaide.

While the event has ended, the art remains, and is now part of a beautiful street-art trail which you can enjoy on a self-guided tour of the area.

This year’s lineup of new artwork includes murals from internationally acclaimed artists from Adelaide and beyond, including Ella Germein (Adelaide), Kate Kurucz (Adelaide), Smug One (Glasgow), Shane Cook (Adelaide), Lucinda Penn (Adelaide), Morris Green (Adelaide), Sofles (Brisbane) and Graff Jam by Demon, Erlos & TV Crew.

New Murals This Year

Ella Germein, 4 McLaren Pde (Menpes St Frontage)

Ella Germein, also known for playing in Aussie indie pop sister band GERMEIN, in which she plays Bass, is a renaissance artist. She has multi facets to her work which includes music, presenting and artistic sides. Her use of bold colours and detail through line work are her signatures in style. Ella is well versed on canvas  and has now been painting murals and upscaling her work.

A previous work by Ella Germein

Sofles, 6 Mercantile Dock

Russell Fenn, better known as Sofles, is an Australian graffiti artist originating from Brisbane. Self-taught, he has been honing his skills for over 20 years, exploring various mediums such as spraypaint, acrylic, drawing and brush painting, as well as digital and illustration works. Sofles’ large scale murals have taken him around the world ten times over and now grace many of the world’s largest cities, including Berlin, Copenhagen, Oslo, Las Vegas, and LA.

Many have been in awe whilst watching Sofles create artworks in real time. His preferred way to paint is to do so freely, with no sketch or preprepared plan. When one sees his vision transform from his mind to the wall or canvas, it is clear that he has an incredible imagination and expert skills and technique with his “tools”, be it a spray can, a brush or digital stylus. He explains, “Some graffiti pieces are painted with scrap paint and no plan. Others are large-scale, thoroughly planned artworks. My favourite process is to create large and detailed artworks in a free and unrestricted manor.”

A previous work by Sofles

Kate Karucz, 9-11 Todd St

Kate Kurucz is an early career artist working in Adelaide. Kurucz’s oil paintings explore the relationship between absurdity and the sublime and her current work is driven by an interest in loneliness and connection. Recent areas of interest include doomed expeditions, extraterrestrial communication, and world records.

She has been involved in several solo and group exhibitions and been awarded numerous opportunities, including the Guildhouse Collections Project, the R.S.A.S.A Portrait Prize and was recently created a portrait of Dame Roma Mitchell for the Adelaide City Council Chambers.

A previous work by Kate Karucz

Smug One, 9-11 Todd St 8 Karatta Dock

Originally from the South Coast of NSW, Smug has called Scotland home for 20 years.

An internationally renowned artist known for his realistic large-scale mural installations Smug takes inspiration from people and nature, exploring the harmony in the relationship between the two. With his trademark understanding of light and shadow Smug’s painting can often juxtapose themes together such as death, playfulness, melancholy and unadulterated joy.

Whilst his technique stays true to his foundation with traditional graffiti Smug’s murals can be seen as “stylized realism” with hyper realistic elements achieved freehand, primarily with spray paint.

A previous work by Smug One

Shane Cook, 137 St Vincent St (rear)

Shane Cook also known as Mankitya, is a proud Wulli Wulli man with many family connections throughout Queensland and Adelaide. He has many ancestors who were also artists. Shane has been adopted by and was named Mankitya which translates to “the scarred one” by Kaurna Tradition Owners. Shane was born on Kaurna Yerta, South Australia.

Shane is heavily inspired by both city and country environments, nature and urban landscapes, his people and his own personal journey.

A previous work by Shane Cook

Lucinda Penn

Lucinda Penn is an emerging artist bringing together art and design under the name of LCND. She works in the realms of large scale murals to up-cycling found canvases, and everywhere in between.

Since breaking onto the public art scene in 2019 on the main street of Stirling in the Adelaide hills, Lucinda’s work can be found all over South Australia. From Echunga to Henley Beach, the Barossa Valley to Noarlunga. Some of her clients include Department for Infrastructure and Transport, WOTSO Workspace, Adelaide Central Market, Two Hands Wines, City of Adelaide Council (CoA), Walker Corporation x Renewal SA and Adelaide Airport.

In 2022 Lucinda designed a 120m long printed mural on the hoarding of city’s new Festival Centre Plaza on King William Road, and hand painted a feature mural at the Adelaide Airport, launching the region as a National Park City in a new international environmental association with London.

A previous work by Lucinda Penn

Morris Green, 88 St Vincent St

Morris Green is a self taught aerosol artist with over 20 years painting experience focusing on strong contrasts and depth of field to create three dimensional paintings. Starting off on the streets of the Southern suburbs of Adelaide through the night, his work has developed and progressed towards photo realism private and commercial murals. He has been fine tuning his details and techniques on skin, tattooing black and grey realism for the past 7 years. Some notable awards and clients include works for The Adelaide 36rs, South Adelaide Football Club, Redbull and taking out the win in 2018 for Longview Vineyards “the piece project” event.

A previous work by Morris Green

Wonderwalls Street Art Trail

To check out the dozens of incredible artworks scattered throughout Port Adelaide, download the map and list of artists here.

Where: Port Adelaide.

When: Most artwork will be visible throughout the year.

Cost: Free.

Download the full map of where you can check out each piece here.

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