More Aussie Graffiti - A.Wall

Published in the mid-1980s under the cheeky pseudonym “A. Wall,” this follow-up dives even deeper into Australia’s glorious tradition of public scribble warfare. The book collects hundreds of graffiti slogans, insults, political jabs, toilet-door philosophies, pub scrawls, and train-station declarations from across the country, preserving the kind of fleeting street humour usually scrubbed away by council paint crews. Every page feels like overhearing the nation muttering to itself through marker pen and biro ink, equal parts absurd, cynical, filthy, and unexpectedly poetic.

What gives the book its staying power is how vividly it captures pre-digital communication culture. Before comment sections and social media feeds, walls were the message boards, and Australians treated them like open-mic confessionals. Some graffiti reads like punk one-liners fired from the hip, others like accidental literature born at 2am after too many beers. Together they form a rough-edged social snapshot of Australia in the 1980s, where humour, rebellion, loneliness, boredom, and sharp political commentary all fought for space on brick, steel, and bathroom cubicles.