The Beautiful Women of the Tenderloin

Olive and Larkin and Geary
The Tenderloin

This beauty (though sadly tagged) is by Melbourne-based artist & Everfresh member, RONE.  Made possible by Rogue Projects, the wall spans more than two car lengths and is located just off Larkin and Olive.

Just at the end of the Olive on Larkin is this other lovely creature by RONE.

This is at Larkin and Geary.

RONE  has this to say on his website:

Rone’s posters are some of the most iconic in Australia, hiding under overpasses throughout Melbourne. He is renowned for the stylised images of ‘girls’ faces – it wouldn’t be a stretch to say that he’s had more posters in his home town’s streets than any other artist in history.

Rone is one of the original members of Everfresh Studios where he still works daily. His ‘girls’ come with him as he travels and now appear on the streets of Los Angeles, New York, London, Toyko, Barcelona and Hong Kong. Of all the stencil artists from the initial Melbourne stencil boom of the early 2000s, he is the only one still consistently putting his work up.

Rone’s art has been acquisitioned by the National Gallery of Australia, and in 2011 he sold out his first ever solo show in Melbourne before it even opened, highlighting his status as the literal poster boy of Australia’s next crop of street artists.