Mark Holsworth, Black Mark

@mholsworth.bsky.social

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Author of The Picasso Ransom, Sculptures of Melbourne and the long-running blog Black Mark - Melbourne Art & Culture Critic. He/him

Photograph of the graffiti on a tagged surface. The graffiti is in white copperplate handwriting.
Photos of a stencil of two ducks smoking on a garden planter bed.
Photo of a sculpture on the pavement that rises at a steep angle. The message is written in chalk on the surface.
Photograph of a wall with a tile covered in sequins and Jimcrack and the words "Weird Girls Club".
A graffiti piece where the green letters take the form of a spikey fish. The background is an underwater scene.
Photo of a pencil carved to a point in the middle.
Photo of two tabby cats
Photo of a paste-up with Gina's face on Jabba the Hutt's body (Star Wars reference) and the words "Gina the Hutt".
Photo of a window stacked with empty toilet paper rolls eight layers high.
A photo of a wall covered in graffiti with a stencil depicting a naked Donald Trump, holding a small nuclear missile, his spread legs and dipping his other fingers into a jar labelled "V". The words "Launch Me" are stencilled above him.
Photograph of a pencil sharpened so that both ends meet at a point in the middle.
Photo of a ceramic object in the shape of a sardine tin with lid pulled half open to reveal a fish and mermaid.
Photo of a sticker on a power pole. It has an ancient Greek Helmet with the word "Sharp" on the crest. Circling the helmet are the words: "Souhern Subs Sharps * Melbourne Antifa *"
Photo of a sticker on a power pole. The sticker has images of various masked people and the words: "Support your local Antifa".
Photo of a statue of a young, attractive man taking off a cowardly lion costume while holding a medal.
Photo of a wall covered in torn posters; among them is a paste-up with a photo of Sherrin Abu Akleh wearing her blue vest marked 'PRESS' and the words "Sheerin Abu Akleh RIP 1971-2022".
Photo of a grey tabby cat looking out from a bag.
Photo of a sticker on a bollard. "Bogans everywhere" on the sticker. It is a parody of the Bunnings logo.
Photograph of a wall with two b&w stencils on it, a cat and a dog. Also on the wall, the words "Coburg" and "Catdog" in alternating black and white sans-serif font.
Photo of two tabby cats, one looking at the other.
Mickey Mouse stands on top of a steel box and girders forming the shape of a cross. Mickey's is hooded and blind folded, his arms outstretched with wires attached in the manner of the infamous photograph of the victim of US army torture in Abu Ghraib prison.
Photo of a cat attempting to sit inside an upturned straw hat.
Photo of the back of a street sign on a city street where someone has attached painted bits of wood, creating a seascape with a seagull and container ships.
Photograph of a sticker on a pipe. The sticker reads: "God has a plan to Kill Me."
Photo of a street pedestrian signal with a black sticker with white sans serif font reading: Fear No Tea.
Photo of a paste-up of a security camera with cute cartoon eyes, stuck onto a security company's sign.
Photo of a transparent paste-up on a wall, the graffiti beneath it can be seen through the blue head of a bird.
Photo of a paste-up of an imitation of Andy Warhol's Velvet Underground album cover illustration of a peeled banana with green skin and a yellow banana with the black sans-serif capital letters 'ACAB'.
A photo of a tabby cat with a small toy cat.
Photograph of a paste-up paper on a wall, the paper has the words "Gina the Hutt" and a picture of Jabba the Hutt's fat worm body with Gina Rienhart's head.
Photo of two tabby cats
A photo of a pair of googly eyes stuck above a crescent moon on a round sign at a tram stop.
Photo of a wall with "Read Smut" spray-painted on it.
Photograph of a round sticker stuck to a metal surface on the street. On the sicker are a green and black poppy heads and the words "Plantifa Anarcotics Anonymous Agitate * Educate * Germinate"
Photo of a page with a reproduction of Joe Jackson's I'm the Man album cover with the words: "no relationship to Michael" written on it.
Photograph of a spray-paint stencil poster on a wall. The poster has the face of Mark Zuckerberg and the slogan "Mark Zuckerberg is watching you."
Photo of graffiti-covered wall with a low relief cat mask on a face with love hearts and blue hair.
A photo of a painting on a graffiti-covered wall of an unhappy-looking military band drummer with a smily face on the drum skin, along with the slogan 'I bang the drum you shake the booty'.
Photo of a sticker on a power pole with the words "Death Death to the IDF" on it.
Photograph of a city wall with graffiti, amid the graffiti is a black and white stencil of a skateboarder in an action pose.
Photo of two tabby cats ACAB