If These Walls Could Talk

For Reko Rennie, art doesn’t belong to rarefied spaces. It’s woven into the fabric of our cities, as democratic as the air we breathe. When Rennie was ten, he would criss-cross the suburbs of Melbourne. The work of image-makers that came before him was seared into his consciousness, shaping the artist he’d one day be.

“I’d see graffiti popping up along the train lines, along the streets, and it really resonated with me,” he says. He gives a mischievous laugh. “I got to see a lot of political work—those images