Here we are in Fitzroy,
where Shelton Lea hung out, in the grounds of the housing commission towers, with his mates, in the various pubs, sometimes to give readings, other times to drink and at his bookshop.
preparing the poems ready to paste up
The black cat.
Perseverance Hotel
a section of a poem by Shelton
This project is a series of artworks, placed in the haunts of Shelton Lea, in recognition and memory of his contribution to the life of Melbourne.
Two of Shelton’s lines
a bit of somebody saying something in Atherton Gardens, can’t quite get the gist of it though.
outside 122 A Gertrude st where Shelton had his bookshop.
we also discovered this wonderful mural that I have always heard about but never seen, it is the Keith Haring mural.
shelton lea was here 