Local Streets
Local Streets showcases the work of rising artists as they explore the places that inspire and shape their creative journeys. Through a variety of mediums and perspectives, these artists interpret their surroundings—both real and imagined—offering fresh insights into landscapes, cityscapes, and personal spaces.
This exhibition highlights the evolving relationship between artists and their environments, revealing connections to place through memory, experience, found items and experimentation. Each work invites viewers to see familiar spaces in new ways, celebrating the influence of place on artistic growth and expression.
Installation view. Photo credit: Jeremy Weihrauch.
Rodney Dutton
Rodney Dutton has been a graffiti artist since the 1990s. He loves that graffiti is a way of expressing the way he feels every day. Rodney would like people to look at his artwork and say that they like it, appreciate it and that it inspires others they can draw, you just have to put your mind to it.
Rodney is inspired by old school artists from New York and The Bronx and all other artists out there painting and believing in their dream.
Installation view of Drift. Photo credit: Jeremy Weihrauch.
Bella Taylor
Drift
Drift is a vibrant exploration of connection, community, and expression, inspired by the Murray River and its cultural significance on Wiradjuri land. Rather than seeing the River as a divide, the Wiradjuri People understand it as a life-giving thread that ties together land, flora, fauna, and community. Drawing from this, I approached the River with deep respect, recognising water as a fluid, nourishing force that allows everything around it to flourish.
Each of the five works in this series is connected by the flowing movement of water, flowing through them as a visual and conceptual link. My colourful, street art-inspired monsters embody emotion, eccentricity, and imagination. They interact with the water, clinging, merging, and growing from its flow. These creatures are not just characters; they’re expressive forms shaped by my inner world and emotional states during the creative process.
Drift is a celebration of expression, colour, shape, and raw emotion. A manifestation of my imagined reality brought to life. I invite others to witness, feel, and connect with the energy that flows through both the River and my work.
Bella Taylor is an Australian multimedia artist. She blends graffiti-inspired design with various visual media to create bold and dynamic works. Passionate about the power of art to uplift and inspire, her practice explores colour, movement, and form across painting, sculpture, and digital media.
Currently studying design at the University of Wollongong, Bella documents her creative journey on her Instagram page, BBTdoodles. Her work is influenced by street art, pop culture, and the world around her, reimagining ideas with a playful and distinctive approach. She has painted murals at James Fallon High School and on free graffiti walls in Wollongong, with aspirations to become a professional muralist. Through her vibrant and energetic style, Bella seeks to create art that sparks joy, invites engagement, and offers a refreshing visual escape from the everyday.
You can see more of Bella’s artwork here.
Installation view of Relics. Photo credit: Jeremy Weihrauch.
Nash “Spike” Holden
Relics
“Relics”, Nash Holden’s series of paintings, time capsules the current remnants of Albury/Wodonga and its surrounding areas history of dependence on rural industry, every warp of the metal, and every loose piece of wood is on display in these stylised monochromatic paintings, every piece having their own unique colour combined with the stark black illustrations of the decayed architecture. The artist feels a connection to these relics, buildings that will likely be demolished with no farewell or documentation that they were ever there. All these buildings, from a Dairy in Thurgoona to the remains of a family home in Granya will soon vanish back into nature.
Nash LJ Holden also known locally as “Spike” is a multi-disciplinary artist who works within a range of mediums such as painting, ink and graphite Illustration, sculpture, graphic design, photography and videography, with his primary field being illustration, ink, graphite or digital, Nash particularly enjoys portraiture. Born in Wodonga and living primarily in Lavington. A childhood with trauma, parental neglect and desertion, Nash was diagnosed with High Functioning Autism as a child and later with extremely Severe Depression, anxiety and PTSD, working through his pain through his artwork and writings is a way to articulate very complex feelings and subject matter he has experienced.
You can see more of Spikes work @spikes_art
Installation view of Impressions of Nature. Photo credit: Jeremy Weihrauch.
Summer Le-Lar
Impressions of Nature
“Impressions of Nature” invites viewers to experience the natural beauty of the Albury-Wodonga region through the lens of Summer Le-Lar’s printmaking practice. The artist’s work explores transformation by breathing new life into fallen leaves. Featuring birds, flowers and flowing water shapes, each piece reflects a connection to the local landscape.
Summer is an emerging visual artist, whose work is grounded in curiosity, emotion, and exploration. Drawn to the beauty in everyday moments, Summer creates art as a way to express her feelings toward the world around her—translating personal experience into visual form. Still discovering her artistic voice, Summer’s practice is evolving as she experiments with different styles, materials, and ideas. Her work often reflects a deep sensitivity to her surroundings, inviting viewers to see the familiar in new and thoughtful ways. As part of Albury City’s public art display on Lane Street, Summer’s contribution marks an early but heartfelt chapter in a growing creative journey—one driven by the simple but powerful desire to connect through beauty and self-expression.
You can see more of Summer’s work @summer.lelar
Laneway Lightbox Open-Air Gallery is a public art initiative launched by AlburyCity, presenting lightbox installations along Amp Lane close to Albury’s cultural precinct. It is an ongoing program with rotation of artworks every four to six months. Each exhibition brings together creative and bold ideas. By stretching the limit of where and how art is consumed, it aims to open up meaningful conversations in a wider audience for social changes.
If you are interested in this project, please feel free to contact: culturalactivation@alburycity.nsw.gov.au
