The Thousands

I’m not going to lie to you. There are 1,000,000 art shows on during the Adelaide Fringe Festival in March. But there is shit all going on in Adelaide in the first week of January. So, I’m going to get my ‘filler’ on, and tell you about our local street art scene.

There are always remnants of Chris Tamm around town. Chris is a bit of a local legend. He has flown the coop to Sydney now, but in the heyday he was sort of like Adelaide’s resident I-look-like-a-homeless-guy-street-art-dude. Try the alley behind Miss Gladys Sym Choon on Rundle.

And surely you know about the ‘it’s free!’ guy. Walk anywhere. No, seriously just walk anywhere in the CBD and look for ‘it’s free!’ written in chalk. It is sort of like an Adelaide hipster reincarnation of Arthur Stace. There’s this guy called anklepants too, always something fresh and new. In the same classy vein there is ‘Licio’. She/He just paints ‘Licio’ everywhere in this sexy cursive. My personal favourite can be found in the alleyway next to the Advertiser building between Franklin and Grote St, look up for ‘Licio’. It is good for you, the sun is up there you know.