Frankston Street Art Murals
Frankston has strong claims on being the best location for street art in Melbourne outside the CBD. It has an annual street art festival and there are currently more than 60 murals in the central part of Frankston created by the best Australian and international street artists. Murals are added during the Big Picture Fest Frankston which is held each year and some of the murals are Augmented Reality artwork.
Frankston City won gold in the 2021 and 2022 Australian Street Art Awards for 'Best Street Art Tour'. The 1.5 hour walking tours cost only $15 per person, which includes coffee, tea or hot chocolate. One tour is held each week on either Saturday or Sunday.
You can download maps of the mural locations suing the links at the end of the blog.
The murals are:
1. Coexistence Mural
By Colombian artist Camilo Delgado (REFUZ). Fear is never about what has happened but about what may happen, about the future and future is yet to happen. Although fear will never disappear, don't let it to paralyse you from taking action. On this path let the heart to be your guide.
Location: Arthurs Lane, Frankston
2. Memory Loss Mural
By Scott Nagy and Krimsone from New South Wales. This mural explores how our information obtained and gained through personal experience, upbringing and education has been lost in our technical world.
Location: Plaza Lane, Frankston
3. Carlitos Way Mural
By Ling, a Melbourne based graffiti / street artist. "Portrait of a good friend + great human"
Location: Plaza Lane, Frankston
4. Giant Skeleton Mural
By Smug, an Australian contemporary street artist of great skill residing in Glasgow who is known for his photo realism graffiti work.
Location: Between Braap and Hoyts Cinema in Park Lane, Frankston
5. Moonlighting Mural
By Melanie Caple and Frankston High School Mural Students. Pastels, play and native sea life.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
6. Ghostpatrol and Monterey Secondary College Mural
In conjunction with students from Monterey Secondary Collage, Ghostpatrol (David Booth) created this artwork piece as part of the Big Picture Fest 2022. Each student had their own strong ideas about what they wanted to paint to have a voice on the wall. The laneway is buzzing with positivity and good vibes.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
7. Crimson Rosella Mural
By Jimmy Dvate (DVATE), a Melbourne based artist. The work features an adult Crimson Rosella, based on an amazing photo by local photographer Mark Lethlean, taken less than 20km away at Devilbend.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
8. Vans The Omega Mural
An augmented reality piece by Vans the Omega from Adelaide. To activate this artwork download the Big Picture Series appand point your camera at the artwork to see it come to life.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
9. George Rose Mural
By George Rose, a Melbourne-based artist.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
10. Morano Mural
By Catalan artist Morano.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
11. Baxter and McClelland College Mural
Location: Wilsons' Car Park upper level west wall (use ramp at corner of Station Street and Gallery Lane), Frankston
12. 23rd Key Mural
Location: Wilsons' Car Park upper level west wall (use ramp at corner of Station Street and Gallery Lane), Frankston
13. Adnate Mural
Location: Wilsons' Car Park ramp (corner of Station Street and Gallery Lane), Frankston
14. Benjamin Knock Augmented Reality Artwork
Augmented Reality artwork. Download the 'Big Picture Series' app to locate and activate this artwork and watch it come to life.
Location: Wilsons' Car Park stairwell (use ramp at corner of Station Street and Gallery Lane), Frankston
15. Maelstrom 263 Mural
By Zedr (Ryan Peik), a Melbourne based street artist.
Location: Gallery Lane, Frankston
16. Bond TruLuv Augmented Reality Piece
An Augmented Reality piece located at the Frankston Train Station during the 2022 Big Picture Fest. No longer available.
Location: Frankston Train Station, Frankston
17. Hypnagogia Mural
By Lucy Lucy, a French-Parisian born currently residing in Melbourne. The mural is capturing the elusive joy and wonder of the lucid dreaming state by depicting a bedtime traveller, wandering around the subconscious landscapes.
Location: Gallery Lane, Frankston
18. You're Not Forgotten Mural
By Helena Martin from Austin, Texas. The mural depicts an 8m high Australian Kelpie. It is the artist's hope that the viewer will feel connected to the dog and therefore not alone.
Location: Gallery Lane, Frankston
19. Songailo Ceiling Mural
By Sam Songailo is an Adelaide artist who is inspired by electronic music. The mural is a site specific response to the space informed by the architecture it occupies. The emptiness and coldness of electronic music is a feeling he tries to impart into his art work.
Location: Stiebel Place, ceiling, Frankston
20. Beast Mode Mural
By local artist, Sheldon Headspeath. This artwork's positive focal point is a comic book based character. The commonly-used phrase Beast Mode is another way of saying 'Get it done'. The bottom of the wall depicts the numbers 3199 (Frankston's postcode) in the colours from the sky to balance the wall.
Location: Gallery Lane, Frankston
21. Emerge Mural
By Melbourne spray paint muralist CLAP Meataxe. The artist's intent was to use water to express the energy and connection Frankston has to the shoreline while recognising the troubling side to Frankston. The two needed to be merged in some way, or Emerge. In the deep depths, pulled down. In the beauty, but trapped by the beauty also. Breathing is pure, but breathing is short lived.
Location: Gallery Lane, Frankston
22. 'As She Lay' Mural
By Gold Coast based artist and illustrator Loretta Lizzio. This artwork was inspired by reconnecting with nature. The artist believes that immersing yourself in nature regularly has a great impact on humans flourishing - our social, psychological, and emotional life. Being in nature, living near nature, or even viewing nature in paintings and videos can have positive impacts on our brains, bodies, feelings, thought processes, and social interactions. Lizzio wanted to bring a little piece of this to the backstreets of Frankston.
Location: West side of the Alley Barber in Steibel Place, Frankston
23. Fearless Mural
By Brigitte Dawson and Melissa Turner (Melbourne Murals). The artists have made the bold choice of a lion in the hopes that it would remind viewers to be brave and fearless in the face of adversity.
Location: Stiebel Place, Frankston
24a. Resurrection Mural
Portrait in profile by ZEDR. This has been painted over and is now the location of #24.
Location: East side of the Alley Barber in Steibel Place, Frankston
24. Untitled PichiAvo Mural
PichiAvo is a duo of street artists from Valencia, Spain. The wall depicts Epicurus, an ancient Greek philosopher and sage who founded Epicureanism, a highly influential school of philosophy. PichiAvo's style is renowned for the combination of classical art and graffiti, offering a new approach to ancient mythology and classical art.
Location: Stiebel Place, Frankston
25. Kinetic Eye Mural
Kinetic eye by Seb Humphreys (Order55). The painting almost breaks down time into frames, fragmenting the observer's perception by creating space and moments of pause between each visible plane. Taking reference from nature, fantasy, science fiction and exploring perception beyond the traditional five senses, the paintings create surreal universes and resemble energy more so than matter.
Location: Second story behind Robinson's Bookshop on Steibel Place, Frankston
26. From the Start to the Beginning Mural
By local aerosol artist Silence. This is the artist's story - starting as a teenager in the grey section, excited by graffiti on trains and along the Frankston train corridor. The green segment depicts the artist developing this creative passion with colourful masterpieces. The brown section explores the feeling of stagnation, confusion and frustration as the artist questions his hobby/obsession. The pink and orange section represents the clarity of the artist feels when he emerges with his own style and forges a new beginning.
Location: Gallery Lane, Frankston
27. Local Artists Collaboration Murals
A feature of Frankston's Gallery Lane, these pieces are a bit of a mystery. You will notice this wall changing periodically, with no explanation.
Location: Gallery Lane, Frankston
28. Purple Platypus in Pollution Mural
By Mike Maka. This piece highlights an obvious environmental problem of human plastics ending up in our shared oceans and waterways. This results in many issues for animals, and inevitably humans too. The rubbish cleverly spells out the artist's name.
Location: Gallery Lane, Frankston
29. Mary Jayne Mural
By Lucy Bonnin, an Adelaide based artist. An artwork that conjures memories of childhood play and wonder. The whimsical bubbles and plaited hair float across the wall like a memory that floats across your thoughts.
Location: Station Street at the northern end of Gallery Lane, Frankston
30. Flower Girl Mural
By Melbourne Murals. This collaboration between Bayside Centre Vicinity Centres, The Bunurong Land Council and Melbourne's Murals, the Flower Girl was launched at the end of May 2019 during Reconciliation Week. They painted the Flower Girl with the bouquet in front of her face so she can be anyone, regardless of age. The Indigenous dress pattern was designed by Brianna Webster, a local Bunarong artist, the half circles represent people sitting around the fire (the dot in between) listening to the elders. The wavy lines represent water ways and the land.
Location: Ross Smith Avenue East, Frankston
31. Dreaming Beyond Duality Mural
By Peter 'CTO' Seaton, a Melbourne based urban contemporary artist. Enamel and acrylic on wall. A speculative inquiry into the possible architecture of reality: Cause and effect; Night and day; Cold and hot; life and death; Joy and Suffering. Seemingly dualistic laws that govern the human experience. The artist is asking the question: Where does the phenomena of consciousness exist? beyond it all? And is this scale of existence in place to give our reality definition?
Location: Ross Smith Lane, Frankston
32. Aghi Mural
By Vesod (Italy). The title of the work Aghi in english means needles. The painting is a seam between reality and dream, where matter loses its physical properties as well as space. The dream becomes a window on another reality.
Location: Ross Smith Lane, Frankston
33. Counterbalance Mural
By Venezuelan artist, SatOne who now lives and works in Munich. A counterbalance is a force that balances another, as when two objects of equal weight, energy or influence are acting in opposition to each other. These objects are then said to be in counterbalance.
Location: Beach Street, Frankston
34. Frankston Mural
This mural full of Frankston icons was created by the local youth and Sheldon Headspeath. The Frankston Youth Service offers a street art program which provides young people with the opportunity to express themselves in creative, pro-social ways, while reducing vandalism and connecting with their community in a positive way. Participants work alongside youth workers and professional artists, who upskill and offer guidance to the group as they design and paint murals around Frankston. This program offers support for young people who wish to pursue their aspirations through education and employment pathways. The mural includes the following: Brake Care (a nod to the building the mural is painted on), seagull, landmark bridge, dolphins, Frankston station, comfort station, South East Water building/Nepean Highway, Olivers Hill lookout and Frankston pier.
Location: 6 Dandenong Road West, Frankston
35. The Graceful Ascent Mural
The Kotuku, also known as the Great Egret or White Heron, is a local bird to Frankston and has a deep spiritual connection with indigenous Maori of New Zealand, especially around a time of tangi mourning. The artists explain, "Our great uncle Dr Haare Williams said the Kotuku is the carrier of souls to Hawaiki ancestral - spiritual home. We wanted to capture the movement as it gracefully ascends carrying the loss to Hawaiki nui, Hawaiki roa, Hawaiki pamamao, your resting place, their resting place. We think of our 51 fallen heroes"
Location: Ross Smith Avenue West, Frankston
36. All This Mayhem Mural
By Tristam Kerr. All This Mayhem is an acknowledgement to the troubled Melbourne skateboarders, the Pappas brothers, who fell from grace after a hedonistic lifestyle. The piece is a nod to Frankston's positive cultural change and evolution of its identity.
Location: Cnr Olsen Street and Olsen Lane, Frankston
37. 'Students against Graffiti' Mural
Murals painted by local primary and secondary schools as part of a Council Responsible Street Art Program. The project introduced students to the process of legal graffiti. The quote "For the strength of the wolf is the pack and the strength of the pack is the wolf" inspired the art. Students placed their personal mark on a panel and all are contained in an image of the wolf. The six panels on the other side are winners from a street art competition.
Location: Wells Lane (off Keys Street), Frankston
38. Plover Lover Mural
By Jimmy Dvate (DVATE), a renowned Australian contemporary artist, specialising in large scale murals. The artist always bases his murals on flora and fauna of the local area, hopefully raising awareness of an endangered species. He spent a lot of time researching Frankston and surrounds and ended up choosing the Hooded Plover as the focus of his artwork. This endangered species is found all along the coast. Nesting on the beach they are often threatened by human interaction, dogs etc so he felt they were a really important species to highlight. Only 2.5% of chicks make it to fledgling stage, one of the lowest success rates for breeding in the world. This artwork reflects the lifecycle of the hooded plover - from egg to chick to fledgling to adult - all surrounded by abstract hazard tape as a symbol of their vulnerability. The artist worked with the local community group, Friends of the Hooded Plover Mornington Peninsula to create the concept and enjoyed access to many reference photos taken by Mark Lethlean.
Location: Cnr Wells Lane and Keys Street, Frankston
39. 'Not All is Lost' Mural
By Andrew Frazer, a multidisciplinary artist from Gelorup, Western Australia. This artwork is inspired by the resilience of those affected by the devastating Australian bushfires in late 2019 / early 2020 and their stories of hope beyond the ashes.
Location: Wells Lane, Frankston
40. Home Mural
By Abbey Rich, a Melbourne multidisciplinary artist. Returning to her home town of Frankston to make this work, Rich has focused on her relationship to the environment. Abstract shapes come from cellular structures to represent pathways and a return to home. A contorted body hangs from the roof, feeling unsettled but also somewhat comfortable. The colours flow across the three sides of the building to create a cohesive yet multi-faceted work.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
41. Upwords Mural
By Puzle, a Melbourne based graphic visual artist. This is a composition of typography styles based around the foundation of traditional graffiti art. The words and meaning become secondary to the overall aesthetic and pattern. The fluorescent colour palette and retro feel are a nod to the 80's surf and beach culture.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
42. Submerged Mural
By Melbourne spray paint muralist CLAP Meataxe. Submerged is a follow up to Emerge. She isn't trapped. She is free to breathe, but chooses to stay submerged. Not wanting to lose the harmony of the water and leave behind it depths.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
43. 'All the Green Year' Mural
Murals created by Brigitte Dawson and Melissa Turner (Melbourne Murals). This was a storytelling project to honour Don Charlwood - an author who lived in Frankston. His classic tale, about a boy called Charlie Reeve and his journey towards adulthood, is set in a small town on the Mornington Peninsula. Thompsons Lane has been transformed with an underwater mural and street scene of Frankston in the 1880's. From the 1965 classic book by Don Charlwood 'All the Green Year', the huge mural includes Oliver's Hill and two boys sitting high in a pine tree over the street. A graceful turtle also swims through the seascape as a boy jumps off Frankston pier.
Location: Thompson Lane (off Wells Street), Frankston
44. The Castle on the Hill Mural
By Melbourne-based artist Adrian Doyle. With such a large wall and creative freedom, Doyle wanted to play with the idea of creating fine art in a street art context. Having grown up in Frankston and with suburbia being a large component of his conceptual obsession, Doyle's artwork is an honest critique of the suburban dream.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
45. Get Along Gang Mural
A collaborative mural by Melbourne artist David Booth (Ghostpatrol) and a group of Year 8 students from Monterey Secondary College. Over multiple classroom sessions twelve students worked with Booth to develop the artwork, exploring mural planning, design and drawing techniques. The final artwork serves as a portrait and time capsule, with each bright, colourful character representing a student individually, sharing their personality, thoughts, feelings and interests at this time in their life. The process of creating this work was just as important as the outcome - discovering the fun and freedom that comes with working together to paint something bigger than themselves.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
46. Blue Banded Bee Mural
By Frankston artist Maxine Gigliotti. "This mural is starring our native Blue Banded Bees, that can be found in our own backyards here in Frankston! These beautiful insects are very small just over 1cm but are super important for pollinating our native plants. Unlike the honey bee, they 'buzz pollinate' by vibrating their wings which for some native plants is the only way they can be pollinated. Bringing native flowers into our gardens will help attract these beauties and keep our environment thriving. Next time you're in the garden maybe you will see some of these blue beauties dancing around your flowers!"
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
47. Rise Mural
Artist Wina Jie creates imagery exploring the Asian Australian identity experience. The artwork calls upon oneself to face their inner demons in order to find inner peace. This can also be reflected as a call to action to unite during times of crisis. The artist's role now is to inspire the collective during the uncertain times of the global pandemic. Honouring the artists' Eastern background by incorporating the dragon and the depiction of the 'Superhero' self as the girl in artwork. Rising above the fear to answer your calling in life, in her case it is the pursuit of her arts practice with stronger determination and being grateful for the opportunity to contribute to society in a positive Light.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
48. Melanie Caple and Frankston High School Mural Students Mural
The design for the mural came about while being influenced by a few things - Frankston as an urban city, Frankston as a coastal city, and the high school student's creativity with colour and design. After thinking about the duality of the landscape where they attend school, colour and shape was used to express a certain symbolic playfulness. These elements have come together on the wall in coastal pastel hues, alongside an ibis that represents Frankston as an urban centre, and a pelican representing the waterfront and ocean - two birds that people can reflect themselves upon as they dwell in this diverse environment.
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
49. Love, Live, Ours Mural
By Brett Ashby, an international mixed multimedia artist from Melbourne, and local youth. The mural was a collaboration of creativity from Elisabeth Murdoch College as a part of the Responsible Street Art Program, Youth Central and Frankston City Council. The artwork was designed and painted by Ashby, based on the colours, shape, font and words nominated by students during structured workshops. Lines are used for healing, growth, wealth and luck. It focuses the viewers gaze on a gathering point for vibration. The students learnt about public art, while exploring the negative impacts of illegal graffiti compared with commissioned street art. The work is about self-acceptance that leads to authenticity. Ashby's vision was to showcase the voice of the youth and link the creative solution to the space and place, making it relevant for the community of Frankston.
Location: 122 Young Street, Frankston
50. The Messenger Mural
By Julian Clavijo, a nationally and internationally renowned award winning artist currently based in Melbourne. The mural is an open story. However, to the artist, the boy is the last human remaining after our societal-system made the planet collapse. He will remain in his child form forever, wandering the universe in an eternal sunset of ever evolving reverberating colours. The whale, the last largest mammal to exists continues to carry the link of interdependence between water, earth and air where most creatures used to coexist. The bonsai tree, an ancient Saman, contains the relative notion of time and space; of the actuality of the here and of the now. The turtle, longevity, eternity and wisdom.
Location: Arthurs Lane, Frankston
51. Digital Still Life Mural
By Dave Court, an Adelaide based multi-disciplinary artist. This painting is part of an ongoing exploration of the blurry line between digital and physical modes of creating and perceiving. The work operates as a tromp l'oeil, a type of painting that creates a visual illusion of depth and physicality. Traditionally tromp l'oeil is about creating a realistic representation of a real world object, whereas this painting is a representation of 3D rendered abstract shapes - simultaneously handmade and computer rendered, 2D and 3D, physical and digital. This work also contains an augmented reality (AR) element, if you visit the filter tab on the artist's profile @dave.court on Instagram, you should be able to activate a filter called 'Big Pic Frankston' which will be triggered by aiming your camera at the painting.
Location: Plaza Lane top carpark (access ramp from near 13 Davey St), Frankston
52. The Embrace Mural
By Jason Parker, a fine artist/mural artist from New Zealand. This mural is an expression of the artist's hope for humanity. Often we find ourselves at ends with one another, tense and projecting our own hang-ups onto our fellow man. We need to begin to disarm ourselves, embrace our differences and come together. If we do this and learn to grow as a society humanity and our earth will reap the benefits for generations to come.
Location: Plaza Lane, Frankston
53. A Longing Distant Connection Mural
As a child, a sole Quandong tree existed near to our house in South Western NSW. Every season we'd ride our pushies down to check for fruit and share thoughts on its history.
Being unable to travel to visit family in recent times has been difficult for many. Missing out on annual family traditions shared a lot from my childhood through obscured thoughts and unfocused memories. For some reason, riding to the Quandong tree seemed to be the clearest.
This restriction on connection with family was upsetting but it would be nothing compared to what was endured by the people of Melbourne and Victoria during lock-down.
Being welcomed to share the native Quandong, which can be uncommon in Victoria, serves as a gesture of reconnection between two states but also myself and the people of Frankston. It is a reminder of more enjoyable times of interstate travel, connection with distant family or communities with hope that heart felt adventure can be reintroduced to our lives again soon.
Out of the many people I conversed with while painting this wall, only two people had heard of a Quandong. To paint something that was not immediately recognisable, on trend or frequently existent in the street art world was a challenging task but truly rewarding. I'll be taking on this approach as often as possible.
Location: Plaza Lane, Frankston
54. 'Alice in Wonderland and Nutcracker' Murals
Murals created by Brigitte Dawson and Melissa Turner (Melbourne Murals). Alice in Wonderland characters brighten the exterior with the Cheshire Cat, Mad Hatter and many more. Alice in Wonderland is an age-old classic with universal appeal across generations. It gives the library a colourful, playful and friendly entrance. The artwork engages children while paying homage to the importance of storytime in children's development.
Location: Frankston Library Forecourt, 60 Playne Street, Frankston
55. 'Stacked Bookshelves' Mural
Murals created by Brigitte Dawson and Melissa Turner (Melbourne Murals). Giant Library books decorate the Frankston City Council Library, bringing Playne Street to life. The giant books are Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, On the Beach by Nevil Shute, The Nutcracker, All the Green Year by Don Charlwood, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Picnic at Hanging Rock by Joan Lindsay and Rascals Shadows by Paul Jennings. Some of the authors and books are closely linked with Frankston. Rascal the Dragon, a character from Paul Jennings books, was added as a fun interactive touch for the kids.
Location: 60 Playne Street (near Frankston Library), Frankston
56. Peeta Ead Mural
By Peeta Ead. This is a study of the context and a deep will to make the mural perfectly mingle with the surrounding environment while it stands out at the same time causing a temporary interruption of normality. Its shapes follow the original lines of the architecture and at the same time, create new volumes and new voids, redesigning the original shape of the building.
Location: 60 Playne Street (Eastern wall of Frankston Library), Frankston
The 2023 Big Picture Fest
The following murals were added during The Big Picture Fest in 2023. See the map below.
1. Sofles Mural
Location: Cnr Beach Street and Evelyn Street, Frankston (on Bayside Centre building)
2. Maria Pena Mural
Location: Beach Street, Frankston (Left of entrance to Bayside Centre)
3. Hard Thirteen Mural
Location: White Street Mall, Frankston
4. Heesco Mural
Location: Gallery Lane, Frankston
5. Olana Janfa and Abbey Rich Mural
Location: Park Row, Frankston (near Wells Street)
6. Smug One Mural
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
7. Mistery Mural
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston (near Nepean Highway)
8. Hayden Dewar Mural
Location: Thompson Lane, Frankston
9. Katherine Gailer Mural
Location: Frankston Library, 60 Playne Street, Frankston (Front facade)
2024 Big Picture Fest
The following murals were added during The Big Picture Fest in 2024. See the map below.
The Big Picture Fest was held from 18-24 March 2024, bringing eight Australian and international street artists to Frankston to create new large-scale murals. The festival also featured digital projection art, miniature street art installations, guided walking tours and a Block Party in Park Lane. By the end of the festival, Frankston had more than 70 street artworks.
See the 2024 Frankston Street Art Map for artwork locations.
See the 2024 Big Picture Fest Map for the original numbered festival locations.
1. Demsky - Digital Projection
By Spanish artist Demsky, whose work has its roots in graffiti and draws inspiration from futuristic imagery, science fiction, arcade games and the visual culture of the 1980s and 1990s. Demsky was one of two digital projection artists participating in the 2024 festival. This was a projection artwork rather than a permanent mural.
Location: Cube Gallery, 37 Davey Street, Frankston
2. Tinky - Miniature Art Installations
By Melbourne artist Liz Sonntag, known as Tinky. The artist creates humorous miniature scenes using vintage objects, small figurines and wordplay. For the 2024 festival, Tinky created ten miniature worlds, with two located at Frankston Library and Cube Gallery and another eight hidden around Frankston's streets and laneways.
Location: Cube Gallery, 37 Davey Street, Frankston, and other locations throughout the city centre
3. Snowday Mural
By American artist JEKS, who specialises in highly realistic murals and portraits created using spray paint. His work includes detailed portraits of musicians, cultural figures and other subjects.
Location: Park Lane, Frankston
4. Frank & Kat Mural
By Dutch artist Marcus Debie, known as GOMAD. He began painting graffiti in the early 1980s and has created murals in numerous countries across Europe, the United States and Australia. The mural is titled Frank & Kat.
Location: Park Lane, Frankston
5. Fraz the Wizard - Digital Projection
By Adelaide artist Fraz the Wizard. His experimental film Evolution was screened during the Block Party on Friday 22 March 2024. The film explores connections between energy, dreams, particles, people and the future. This was a temporary projection rather than a permanent mural.
Location: Park Lane, Frankston
6. Siesta en la Playa (Nap on the Beach) Mural
By Peruvian-born artist Bronik, who began painting murals in Lima in 2009 and later lived in Barcelona before moving to Melbourne. Her colourful artworks often feature playful characters surrounded by animals and plants. The Spanish title translates to "Nap on the Beach".
Location: Nepean Highway, Frankston (location on original festival map)
7. Ratbag Mural
By Australian artist Calum Hotham. The mural depicts a man travelling with rats hidden in his luggage. The character represents the artist travelling away for work, while the rats represent his wife and son, who want to accompany him. His son is shown climbing into the bag because he is always getting into mischief, while his wife is peeking out of the luggage.
Location: Nepean Highway, Frankston (location on original festival map)
8. Interstellar Noctua Mural
By Australian artist Vexta, one of the pioneering female artists in Australia's street art movement. Her work combines figurative imagery with symbolic geometric shapes and patterns inspired by flowers, fungi, coral and the natural world.
Location: Bayside Shopping Centre, Keys Street, Frankston
9. Interchange Mural
By Melbourne artist Daniel van de Wiel, known as Danny Legs. He has more than 25 years of experience working across graffiti, mural painting, sculpture and design.
Location: Olsen Street, Frankston
10. Untitled Mural
By German artist Ursh. His work combines traditional graffiti with contemporary graphic design and is influenced by Bauhaus and Brutalist architecture. The mural was created on the exterior of Bayside Shopping Centre.
Location: Bayside Shopping Centre vehicle ramp, near Horne Street, Frankston
11. New Growth Mural
By Melbourne artist Kitt Bennett, whose work ranges from illustrations and graffiti to enormous murals and ground paintings. His artworks often incorporate comic-book influences, unusual perspectives and freeform compositions.
Location: Station Street, Frankston (location on original festival map)
2025 Street Art Festival
The following murals were added during the 2025 Street Art Festival. See the map below.
The Frankston Street Art Festival was held from 17-23 March 2025, adding new large-scale murals and a digital projection artwork to Frankston's outdoor art collection. The festival included guided street art tours, workshops, exhibitions and a Block Party.
See the 2025 Frankston Street Art Festival Map for the artwork locations.
1. Fleur du Bitumen Mural
By French-Australian artist Simon Beuve, also known as Flaber.Gasted. The artwork draws inspiration from Frankston's urban environment, incorporating sweeping marks and textures that reflect the city's architecture and metallic surfaces. The artist describes the work as emerging from the urban fabric and merging with its surroundings.
Location: Fletcher Road, Frankston
2. Push Pull Mural
By Melbourne-based artist Damien Arena. Also titled Pushpull, the artwork was created for the 2025 Frankston Street Art Festival. Arena is a multidisciplinary artist with experience working across different artistic mediums and environments.
Location: Olsen Street, Frankston
3. Untitled Mural
By Spanish artist Guirao, who was born in Málaga in 1998. A self-taught painter and muralist, his work combines traditional painting techniques with contemporary approaches. His interest in literature influences the narratives and symbolism in his artworks. Since 2020, he has created large-scale murals for festivals, universities and other organisations in Spain and Australia.
Location: Keys Street, Bayside Shopping Centre, Frankston
4. Fun House Mural
By Argentinian artist Candela Alconada, known as Candela Colours. Her artwork combines colourful characters and imaginative illustrations inspired by the natural, fantastical and human worlds. Candela was invited to participate in the 2025 festival after winning the People's Choice Award at the 2024 Frankston Street Art Festival.
Location: Ross Smith Avenue East, Bayside Shopping Centre, Frankston
5. Logical Progression Projection Artwork
By SWEL of OPT/MIST. This digital projection combines graffiti lettering with animation and three-dimensional design. The work transforms traditional graffiti into a moving digital display, with letters bending, changing form and appearing to move through space.
Location: NetFocus IT window, 50-52 Wells Street, Frankston
6. Tommy Day III - Mural Not Painted
Tommy Day III was scheduled to create a mural for the 2025 Frankston Street Art Festival but withdrew before completing the artwork. No mural was painted at this location.
Location: Wells Street area, Frankston
7. He Could Change Where He Was With His Eyelids Mural
By Adelaide artist Jasmine Crisp. The artwork was inspired by a poem by Melbourne artist SEAGULL, particularly a line about crushing a mountain with an eyelid. Crisp used this idea to explore how looking at familiar surroundings differently can transform their appearance and meaning. The painting incorporates imagery from her own shared home, including everyday objects and her housemate Conor. The artist describes the work as finding beauty in ordinary domestic environments through imagination and a change in perspective.
Location: Park Row, Frankston
8. Glory to the Historian Mural
By Mornington Peninsula artist Trent Downie of TD Illustrations. Downie studied art and illustration at Chisholm in Frankston before working as an electrician and later becoming a full-time mural artist. His artwork is influenced by the coastal environment, native flora and fauna of the Mornington Peninsula. He also uses his electrical experience to incorporate LED and ultraviolet lighting into some of his artworks.
Location: Young Street Car Park, 122-124 Young Street, Frankston
9. On the Hunt for Power Mural
By artist Aleks Grilz, whose character-driven artworks explore humanity's relationship with nature and technology. His work combines science fiction-inspired imagery with humour and imagined futures.
Location: Near Frankston Arts Centre, 27-37 Davey Street, Frankston (location indicated on original festival map). Might be outside Bayside Shopping Centre food court, opposite the roundabout.
2026 Street Art Festival
The Frankston Street Art Festival was held from 16-22 March 2026, with nine large-scale murals and a projection artwork added to Frankston's extensive collection of street art. The festival featured local, national and international artists transforming walls and laneways across the city centre.
Download the 2026 Frankston Street Art Festival Map
1. Would You Take a Seat Mural
Created by Scottish-born artist Shaun Devenney, who is known for realistic paintings that capture moments of everyday life. The mural revisits a painting from his 2025 solo exhibition, with a dramatically reworked background inspired by J.M.W. Turner's painting of the burning of the Houses of Parliament in London in 1834.
Location: 43B Davey Street, Frankston
2. Jack Rowland Mural
Created by Melbourne artist Jack Rowland, whose distinctive style transforms natural landscapes using highly saturated colours. His artworks reinterpret familiar scenery as vibrant, surreal environments, exploring the relationship between landscape, colour and perception.
Location: 101 Young Street, Frankston
3. Buff Diss Mural
Created by Australian street artist Buff Diss, known for his distinctive approach to transforming urban surfaces. His work combines bold shapes, textures and contemporary street art techniques to create striking large-scale compositions.
Location: 43 Playne Street, Frankston
4. Arina Apostolova Mural
Created by artist Arina Apostolova, whose murals combine realistic imagery with symbolic and illustrative elements. Her artwork frequently draws inspiration from nature, particularly birds, wildlife and plants, creating detailed compositions that blend natural forms with imaginative storytelling.
Location: Rear of 80-82 Young Street, Gallery Lane, Frankston
5. Creature Creature Mural
Created by Melbourne-based artistic duo Creature Creature, known for playful illustrations, bold patterns and imaginative characters. Their vibrant artworks combine elements of street art, illustration and design to create distinctive visual worlds filled with colour, movement and personality.
Location: 31 Beach Street, Frankston
6. Father Marker Mural
Created by street artist Father Marker, whose work draws inspiration from Australian flora, fauna, mythology and storytelling. His murals combine organic forms, symbolism and bold graphic elements, often reflecting the character of the surrounding environment.
Location: 15 Beach Street, Frankston
7. Portals Mural
Created by Korean-Australian artist Sam Absurd (Samuel Kim). This colourful and imaginative mural depicts portals in outer space, combining astronomical imagery with science fiction themes. The chaotic yet balanced composition explores the absurdity of reality, space and time. The many interconnected elements also represent the different individuals who collectively form a community.
Location: Olsen Street, loading dock at Bayside Shopping Centre, Frankston
8. Juzpop Mural
Created by artist Juzpop, whose colourful, surreal paintings explore imagination, emotion and the natural world. Her distinctive style often features female figures intertwined with plants and other natural elements, creating dreamlike compositions filled with flowing forms and vivid colours.
Location: Wells Lane, Frankston
9. Mick Russell Projection Artwork
Created by artist Mick Russell, who specialises in animated and projection-based artworks. Using light, movement and digital imagery, his immersive installations transform building surfaces into dynamic visual displays, bringing a different dimension to Frankston's street art collection.
Location: NetFocus, 50-52 Wells Street, Frankston
10. Guardians of the Wild Mural
Created by Belgian-born artist Kitsune Jolene, whose dreamlike artworks combine expressive figures, botanical imagery and rich colours. The mural highlights the importance of protecting wildlife threatened by climate change and habitat loss, encouraging viewers to consider the natural world as a shared home for humans and animals.
Location: Thompson Street, Hoyts Cinema building, near The Sporting Globe, Frankston
There is also an extensive collection of sculptures and murals in the remainder of the Frankston council area.
Some other murals in the area are:
Burgers You Love Mural
Location: 7a Thompson Street, Frankston
Tree of Dreams Mural
By local Frankston resident Sara Catena. The outside world seems like a very different place now, not as warm, welcoming and safe as it used to seem. We are bombarded with stories of illness and fear daily from the mass media and around the world. We have become afraid to hug and leave our homes and this is taking a toll on our well-being, our spirit, our community and our ability to feel positive about the future ... The Tree of dreams' is a reminder that within all of us there is still joy if we allow ourselves to feel it. It is a mindful moment to dip into that place of joy within, a place of love, and of hope beyond fear. A reminder to dream of a positive future. The visuals are the setting of childhood - a timeless moment of bare feet, blue skies and limitless dreaming. A time when anything was possible. What if you could return to that time and place again, just for a moment? Dream away at the 'Tree of dreams'....
Location: Cnr Cylde Street Mall and Ross Smith Avenue, Frankston
Peace Mural
Location: Under Fletcher Road overpass, Frankston
Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS) Mural
A mural in the car park of the Youth Support and Advocacy Service (YSAS) in Frankston.
Location: 62 Playne Street, Frankston
Chimpanzee Mural
By Melbourne Murals
Location: Cnr Park Lane and Thompson Lane, Frankston
Colonel Sanders Mural
Location: KFC Outlet at Bayside Centre, Frankston (outdoors)
Ross Smith Lane Mural, Frankston
Location: Ross Smith Lane (south end wall), Frankston
More Frankston Street and Public Art
Map of Street Art Locations:
Web Links
→ Frankston Street and Public Art
→ 2022 Frankston Big Picture Fest Map (56 murals)
→ 2024 Frankston Big Picture Fest Map (70 murals)
→ 2025 ONLY Frankston Big Picture Fest Map (9 murals)
→ 2026 ONLY Frankston Big Picture Fest Map (10 murals)
