Founder of the Wonderwalls Festival Simon Grant talks about how he started getting into street art as a teenager. Video by Marlene Even from August 2023
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00:00 I just knew that being a part of what was then graffiti art or aerosol art or whatever was happening at the time,
00:07 I just knew that it was something that I wanted to pursue and something that I needed to be a part of,
00:11 so we just forged forward and made it up as I went along.
00:17 The big one for me was when I was about 15 or 16, I was still in school,
00:24 and I was approached to paint a mural for the Ribbonwood Centre, which was just opening in Dabdo.
00:33 We also manage and deliver the Street Art Festival Wonderwalls, which takes place every year.
00:41 It started in Wollongong and is now in Port Kembla.
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