‘Ten more years’: Helen Wilding, the artist sketching the whole of Melbourne’s Brunswick Street
Wilding has been drawing the same street for seven years, taking in cafes, pubs, homes, churches, markets, shops and a branch of the legendary A1 Lebanese bakery• More summer essentialsOnce a week you can find Helen Wilding and friends sitting on the side of the road, pens in hand. This time...
<p>Wilding has been drawing the same street for seven years, taking in cafes, pubs, homes, churches, markets, shops and a branch of the legendary A1 Lebanese bakery</p><p>• <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/culture/series/summer-essentials">More summer essentials</a></p><p>Once a week you can find Helen Wilding and friends sitting on the side of the road, pens in hand. This time she’s perched on a tiny folding stool between a couple of pot plants, focusing intently on a plant nursery. It appears to be shut.</p><p>Wilding has been sketching this same street in inner Melbourne for seven years. Stretching for a couple of kilometres through Fitzroy, one of Melbourne’s oldest suburbs, <a href="https://www.visitmelbourne.com/regions/melbourne/destinations/fitzroy/brunswick-street">Brunswick Street</a> has everything – cafes, pubs, homes, churches, markets, shops and a branch of the legendary A1 Lebanese bakery.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2026/jan/04/helen-wilding-artist-sketching-whole-melbourne-brunswick-street">Continue reading...</a>
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