It was a hot summer’s afternoon in 2013. My brother and I had just been watching a documentary on the street art culture in New York when all of a sudden, inspiration hit.
“You know,” my brother said, “we could do that.”
“Do what?”
“Paste ups…all we have to do is draw something, cut it out, mix up some glue and… paste it up.”
From this idea, swift (me) and ctrl v (my bro) was born. We spent the next many years riding around on our fixies adding colourful creations to the laneways around fitzroy, collingwood and beyond.
I hope you enjoy the archives of our collection!
Massive baby & brains – Collingwood children’s farm
Sweaty santa – Richmond
Baby – Hosier lane
Family pastes – Budd street Collingwood
ET in collingwood
Margaret Thatcher – Hoddle street Abbotsford
Nanna with bird in Fairfield
Penelope
Brunswick velodrome
Creature in Abbotsford
We were contacted by CULT magazine who wrote an article on our art
Hosier lane
CBD Melbourne near Croft Institute
Hoddle street
Budd street collingwood
Lady Penelope – Budd street Collingwood
Cam Winn paste
Monster and brains on the corner of Hoddle and Johnstone street, Melbourne
Hosier lane
David Hasselhoff was here
Rainbow egret in Benalla
BSG group show
Brunswick street, Fitzroy
Triangle lane, Alphington
Kew Boulevard
Brunswick street
Triange lane, Abbotsford
Collingwood children’s farm
Rainbow slothie
BSG Group show
Kew Boulevard
Heidelberg
Heidelberg
Heidelberg
Wall art for VCA project – fabric and paper pinned to wall
Wall art for Melbourne Arts Club – Fabric and paper pinned to wall
Floating baby – found object project for VCA
Nan
Sphinx paste up for VCA project made entirely out of post it notes
Media project for VCA
‘Onward ever, backward never’
Puggle paste ups, Eltham
‘A nice place to rest’ Eltham
epic collage
still from Long Gully film, VCA
Little drop of poison cafe paste, Eltham
Mural for Melbourne Arts Club
Paste up mural for my Grandparents in Alexandra
Hosier lane
film stills, Long Gully, VCA project
Eltham paste
Eltham
Eltham
Rainbow bull dog commission paste – Good Day Club
Jig sawing creatures
Eltham
Rainbow tapir commission paste – Good Day Club
The Lady, Abbotsford
B-Dog and co, Abbotsford
Spinning under Keith Haring’s mural, Collingwood
Mural collab at Little Drop of Poison, Eltham
Footscray pastes
Paste up commission
Paste up commission
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