Each year since 2011, walls in Newtown, Jeppestown and the Johannesburg CBD have been decorated by both international and local graffiti artists who are invited to decorate designated buildings with high-quality graffiti and wall art. The annual graffiti festival was originally in 2011 established with the aim of marketing Johannesburg as an international graffiti viewing destination and to dispel the negative notions associated with this art form. Although it never seems well advertised at the time, the outputs, especially in Newtown, are really spectacular.
The Public Art Festival and Pinki’s Inn, Jules Street, Jeppestown
It is now 2023, about eight years after the 2015 Johannesburg Graffiti Art Festival. By some unknown arrangement, the outside walls of a very old corner shop building in Jeppestown, and operating as “Pinki’s Inn”, were painted with world class graffiti during the 2015 graffiti art festival. While many of the Newtown examples of wall art have been painted over with new art several times to retain their quality and originality, this wall art has been allowed to deteriorate.
The original Jules Street and Auret Street corner shop art work, showing work in process in 2015. Art work by SOLO ONe from Britain. Jeppestown, 2015 (Unity Murals)
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