Simon Grant started Wonderwalls Festival | November 26, 2023 | Illawarra Mercury - video Dailymotion

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Founder of the Wonderwalls Festival Simon Grant talks about how he started getting into street art as a teenager. Video by Marlene Even from August 2023

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00:00 I just knew that being a part of what was then graffiti art or aerosol art or whatever was happening at the time,

00:07 I just knew that it was something that I wanted to pursue and something that I needed to be a part of,

00:11 so we just forged forward and made it up as I went along.

00:17 The big one for me was when I was about 15 or 16, I was still in school,

00:24 and I was approached to paint a mural for the Ribbonwood Centre, which was just opening in Dabdo.

00:33 We also manage and deliver the Street Art Festival Wonderwalls, which takes place every year.

00:41 It started in Wollongong and is now in Port Kembla.

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Simon Grant started Wonderwalls Festival | November 26, 2023 | Illawarra Mercury

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