page_title: Newtown area graffiti and street art
section_title: The "Great Wave" mural
hierarchical_section_title: Newtown area graffiti and street art / Murals and wall art of the Newtown area / The "Great Wave" mural
caption_attribution_description: English: The "Great Wave" mural by members of the street art collective 'Big City Freaks'
context_page_description: Since the 1980s, the area surrounding the inner-Sydney suburb of Newtown, New South Wales, Australia—including the suburbs of Newtown, Enmore, Erskineville, Camperdown and St Peters—has been known for its wide range of prominent graffiti and street art on walls. The public visual art in the Newtown area consists of a variety of styles and methods of execution, including large-scale painted murals, hand-painted political slogans, hand-painted figurative designs, spray painted semi-abstract designs "tags", and other stylistic developments such as stencil art and street poster art, "Yarn bombing", and sculptural items cast from plaster and other materials.
context_section_description: One of the largest and longest-lasting Newtown murals is the "Great Wave" mural, painted on the side of a house located at the corner of Munni St. and Gowrie St. in south Newtown. Created in 2000, it features a striking combination of elaborate 3D style abstract pieces and pictorial images on a Japanese theme, including a huge image of a breaking wave rendered in the style of the famous Hokusai woodcut The Great Wave Off Kanagawa. The work is credited to artists "DAYS", "DMOTE", "PUDL" and "SNARL", members of the street art collective "Big City Freaks" (BCF), whose initials can be seen on the far right of the Great Wave mural. In October 2009 members of this group rendered a new mural along the rear wall of the Ausscrap building, facing Wilford St.
caption: BCF: Great Wave Mural Munni/Gowrie St, Newtown, 2000.
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