Melbourne Street Artist Rone Unveils Nine-Storey Mural in CBD

Stunning images of Melbourne's most epic street art.

Shannon Connellan
April 07, 2014

Melbourne street artist Rone has completed his latest and most industrious work to date, a nine-storey portrait in Melbourne’s CBD. Sitting at 35 metres high and 23.5 metres wide, the gargantuan face of Byron Bay model Teresa Oman looms from the external wall of 80 Collins Street. Based on a photograph Rone had taken of "one of the most re-blogged models in the world" according to Nylon, the work sports the title, L’inconnue de la rue (unknown girl in the street).

The colossal mural, commissioned by wall owner QIC Global Real Estate, took seven days to create, with Rone working for ten hours a day from a cherry picker until the wall was complete. "It took a lot longer than expected and was no doubt the most challenging project I had ever taken on," said the Melburnian muralist on his website. "This is one of those walls you dream of. When it was offered I took it with a grain of salt as not to get my hopes up, as there has been a few things like this talked about in the past that just never happened."

Long celebrated Melbourne-wide for his signature style of tightly cropped, magnified portraits of glamorous female faces on crumbling walls, Rone’s work has expanded from local lanes to interstate spots in Adelaide and Sydney to the streets of Berlin, Port Vila, Queenstown and Miami. Rone will now return to London, where his first UK solo exhibition Wallflower at Stolen Space Gallery opens April 10.

Rone - Unknown Girl in the Street - Image by Ben Wesley

Rone - Unknown Girl in the Street - Image by Ben Wesley

Rone - Image by Ben Wesley

Rone - Unknown Girl in the Street - Image by Tony Owczarek

Images by Ben Wesley and Tony Owczarek.

via Lost At E Minor.

Published on April 07, 2014 by Shannon Connellan
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