Rone (real name Tyrone Wright) is a artist you see a lot of in Melbourne, and in fact all around Victoria. In fact there are multiple books and an even a jigsaw of his work in my house, so you can say he is one of the best know of the Melbourne street artists, and definitely one of the my commercial and acceptable. I mean he has a Wikipedia page, not very street.
Potentially because this isn't challenging street art, it is beautiful and stunning and powerful, but you do have the issue that you have with a lot of street art of 'that's cool but I think I'd still be annoyed if someone painted that on my house.' If Rone painted his work on your house it's increasing it's value not prompting you to clean it.
So it's but surprising and not surprising to discover these two pieces of art last week, surprising in that they were tucked do a tony little alleyway which weaves between which does not more that create a entrance to an apartment building and join that entrance to another laneway which goes to (you guessed it in Melbourne) yet another laneway, normally Rone's pieces are more prominent that this, but it's unsurprising in that this would be modern private property, and the developers are using these artworks to give there otherwise boring apartment building some cache. I think it's worked.
