Alleyway Gallery Bankstown

A Curated Public Art Project for Canterbury-Bankstown Council

Blackbook Ink was engaged by Canterbury-Bankstown Council to curate and deliver a multi-artist mural project in a pedestrian alleyway connecting Bankstown Train Station to Bankstown Sports Club.

The project was titled Alleyway Gallery, reflecting the idea of transforming a functional pedestrian route into an open-air gallery of framed street art and graffiti-inspired murals.

Rather than creating one continuous mural, the project featured six individual artworks by six different artists, each painted within a defined section of the alleyway.

Each artist was allocated a section measuring approximately 2.5m wide x 1.9m high, creating a collection of individual artworks that worked together as one larger public art experience.

The project was completed over two days, with strong positive feedback from local residents and people passing through the space.

Watch the Alleyway Gallery Come Together

This short project video shows the Alleyway Gallery taking shape over the two-day installation, with each artist painting their framed mural section inside the Bankstown pedestrian alleyway.

The video captures the transformation from a standard pedestrian link into a curated open-air gallery connecting Bankstown Station and Bankstown Sports Club.

Project Overview

Project Title: Alleyway Gallery

Client: Canterbury-Bankstown Council
Location: Bankstown, NSW
Site: Alleyway between Bankstown Train Station and Bankstown Sports Club

Project Type: Public art / curated mural project / multi-artist mural
Artists: Mystery, Peque, Sekt Compton, Paul Riots, Phibs, Chris Woe

Installation Time: 2 days

The Brief

The brief was to improve the appearance of a busy pedestrian alleyway in Bankstown through a curated public art project.

The project was named Alleyway Gallery to reflect the idea of turning the alleyway into a walk-through public art experience.

Rather than commissioning one single mural across the full site, the concept was to bring together multiple artists with different visual styles and backgrounds. This allowed the alleyway to feel more like a public gallery, with each artist contributing a unique artwork within a consistent framed format.

The project needed to:

• Improve the appearance of the alleyway
• Create a stronger visual experience for pedestrians
• Support public art in Bankstown
• Include artists with strong graffiti and street art backgrounds
• Bring together different styles in one cohesive project
• Connect with the local community
• Be completed within a short installation window
• Create a professional and visually organised outcome
• Present the alleyway as an open-air gallery

Curating the Artist Lineup

Blackbook Ink curated a diverse group of six artists, selecting each artist for their unique style, cultural relevance and connection to graffiti, street art or Western Sydney creative practice.

The artist lineup included:

Mystery

Mystery is an iconic Sydney graffiti writer with strong roots in the local area. His inclusion helped connect the project to Bankstown’s graffiti and street art history.

Peque

Peque is an international artist from Mexico known for his characters, technical ability and unique visual style. His work brought an international street art influence to the alleyway.

Sekt Compton

Sekt Compton, Blackbook Ink’s lead artist, contributed his own mural section to the project, bringing his long-term experience in graffiti, mural painting and public art.

Paul Riots

Paul Riots is a Western Sydney graffiti artist known for portrait-based mural work. His inclusion added a strong figurative and realism-based element to the project.

Phibs

Phibs is known for his distinctive graffiti art style, often featuring bold linework, layered forms and thick hieroglyphic-style influences.

Chris Woe

Chris Woe is a local graffiti artist known for quirky two-dimensional characters and a playful visual language.

Together, the six artists created a broad mix of graffiti, character work, portraiture, illustration and abstract street art.

The Alleyway Gallery Concept

A key visual idea for the project was to make each mural feel like an artwork inside a gallery frame.

To achieve this, each artist was given a defined wall section measuring approximately 2.5m x 1.9m.

After the artworks were painted, a cornice was mounted around each section and painted gold. This created the illusion that each mural was framed, turning the alleyway into the Alleyway Gallery.

This approach helped bring consistency to the project while still allowing each artist to maintain their own individual style.

The gold frames also elevated the presentation of the artworks, making the finished project feel deliberate, curated and more refined than a standard alleyway mural.

Project Delivery

The project was completed over two days.

Blackbook Ink managed the artist coordination, site layout and overall project delivery to ensure the artworks worked together visually while still giving each artist enough freedom to create in their own style.

The delivery included:

• Curating and briefing six artists
• Dividing the alleyway into individual mural sections
• Allocating each artist a 2.5m x 1.9m space
• Coordinating painting over a two-day period
• Managing the overall visual flow of the project
• Mounting cornice frames around each artwork
• Painting the cornices gold to create a framed-gallery effect

This created a strong balance between individual artist expression and a cohesive public art outcome.

The Outcome

The completed Alleyway Gallery transformed the Bankstown alleyway into a more vibrant, engaging and visually memorable pedestrian route.

By using multiple artists, the project created variety and discovery along the walkway. Each artwork had its own identity, while the gold frame treatment tied the whole project together.

During the two-day installation, many local residents and passers-by commented on how much the alleyway had improved and how good the artwork looked.

The final outcome achieved several goals:

• Improved the appearance of a public pedestrian route
• Created the Alleyway Gallery as an open-air public art experience
• Brought together local, national and international street art influences
• Supported graffiti and street art culture in Bankstown
• Created visual interest between Bankstown Station and Bankstown Sports Club
• Encouraged positive feedback from local residents
• Demonstrated how smaller mural sections can work together as one larger public art project
• Delivered a council mural project within a short timeframe

Why This Project Worked

This project worked because it treated the alleyway as more than a wall to be painted.

By naming the project Alleyway Gallery and dividing the space into individual framed sections, the project created a gallery-style experience that encouraged people to look at each artwork separately while still reading the full alleyway as one curated public art project.

The artist selection was also important. Each artist brought a different visual language, from iconic Sydney graffiti and Mexican character-based street art to Western Sydney portraiture, abstract graffiti forms and playful local characters.

The result was a public artwork that felt layered, accessible and connected to street art culture.

This project is a strong example of Blackbook Ink’s ability to curate, coordinate and deliver community murals and public art projects for councils and public spaces.

Services Used

This project included:

• Public art curation
• Council mural project management
• Artist selection and coordination
• Multi-artist mural delivery
• Graffiti and street art curation
• Site layout planning
• Outdoor mural painting
• Framed mural presentation
• Gold cornice installation
• Public space activation
• Open-air gallery concept development
• Community-facing artwork

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