No Cuts to Education! 2013

In Melbourne, Australia

Street Art piece for Laneways Music Festival 2013

inspired by the street art of Mark Jenkins, this piece was done for the Laneways music festival in Footscray, Melbourne. It’s a protest against Victorian state premier Ted Ballieu’s massive cuts to public education. Sign says “Ballieu Stole My Education”

click here for more information on the state of education in Australia

 

Street Art in Support of Free Education

footscray, Australia

Footscray, Australia

my website   van-thanh-rudd.net

Neo-Liberal attacks on education are escalating in many places around the world including Chile, the USA, Canada and Australia. Students and people in general are protesting against these attacks in large numbers in some of these places too. For more information click on the links:
Article by Jorge Jorquera – regarding Australian education system
Article by Jorge Jorquera – regarding Latin America
Student Protests in Quebec, Canada
Australian education system – Massive Cuts to Tafe in Victoria

(above photos) These were placed in Footscray, Melbourne. Thanks to the freely accessable street sculpture techniques of Mark Jenkins (USA), I’m keen to produce more of this type of work. I aim to be much more directly political with my work, than Jenkins, as I feel that he commented successfully upon the alienated individual under capitalism.