The streets of Darwin are being taken over wall by wall by large scale artworks. The Darwin street art festival is back for it's eighth year and with an additional 22 murals going up around the city, there is now artwork on every main street in the Top End capital.
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00:00 This year's Darwin Street Art Festival has a few firsts.
00:11 There's the first mural that features Auslan symbols, communicating in a way the artist
00:15 knows best.
00:17 My first language is Auslan, so it's not English.
00:22 And here I want to show my thinking and bring my mind out for you all to see.
00:28 And you can see what's going on in my thoughts.
00:31 His artwork's resonating with other members of the deaf community too.
00:34 I didn't expect to meet that many deaf people here.
00:37 It's been great.
00:38 So they come to see the art.
00:40 People have been curious and then they're looking at their own hands in an interesting
00:45 way thinking, "Oh, maybe I can use my hands to sign as well."
00:48 In another festival first, Maxi is using UV paint that will light up in the dark.
00:53 It has two elements to it.
00:55 So there's this daytime image and then using glow paint there will be a nighttime image
01:00 that's slightly different and it's the kids' imagination of what they're playing with.
01:06 So the fish becomes alive.
01:08 The festival artists heralding from far and wide.
01:11 Mayonnaise has travelled up from the street art capital of the country, Melbourne, to
01:15 leave his own personal touch up north.
01:18 The amount of graffiti in Darwin was so...
01:21 I was blown away because I didn't think there was going to be that many people interested
01:25 in painting, especially people from the community.
01:27 So maybe not commissioned walls, just walls that people paint for fun.
01:32 While others let Darwin influence their work.
01:35 Like Mary's mural, which features territory iconography.
01:38 For the locals you've got things like the Million Dollar Barrel, Paul's Iced Coffee
01:43 and a few others.
01:45 And for some of the tourists, the big crocodile is always a big standing out point.
01:50 Every artwork has a QR code that leads to more information about the artist and an app
01:55 shows you where you can find murals around town.
01:59 Festival organisers say they want to fill every street with artwork and they're already
02:03 well on their way.
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