The new Star Wars character Porg adorns a wall in the city centre Dublin, Ireland on November 22, 2017. (Photo by Brian Lawless/PA Wire)





A woman passes by a work of art featured in the street art project “Laman Seni” in Shah Alam, Malaysia, 05 December 2017. Laman Seni is organized by a local council and aims to redefine un-used and un-utilized spaces and encourage creativity among youth and student artist, as well as and make a useable space for the community while enhancing the urban condition, to improve the standard of life in the neighborhood where the art is displayed. (Photo by Fazry Ismail/EPA/EFE)





In this Sunday, December10, 2017 photo, an apartment building is covered with the eyes of Venezuela's late President Hugo Chavez during mayoral elections in the 23 de enero neighborhood of Caracas, Venezuela. After the ruling party captured a majority of mayoral seats across the country, President Nicolas Maduro said opposition parties would be banned from future elections as punishment for boycotting the races. (Photo by Ariana Cubillos/AP Photo)





Pedestrians walk past a mural named “Rise Up in the Dirt” created by a street artist who is known by his nickname BK Foxx and his initials placed in a corner of the giant graffito, in Kiev, Ukraine, 30 November 2017. BK Foxx is a New York-based street artist who creates large-scale murals and is ususally working with spray paint. (Photo by Sergey Dolzhenko/EPA/EFE)





In this December 5, 2017 photo, a man walks past a wall mural depicting a child superimposed on a representation of the Brazilian national flag, in Sao Paulo, Brazil. After suffering through the deepest recession in its modern history, the largest corruption scandal in Latin America and a year under a deeply unpopular president, Brazilians are deeply frustrated and some are looking to extreme solutions. (Photo by Andre Penner/AP Photo)





A mural decorates a downtown building in Lumberton, N.C., Monday, October 30, 2017. In Robeson County, whites, blacks and Native Americans split the population – and many often remark at how well they've overcome the scars of segregation to struggle together, side by side. (Photo by David Goldman/AP Photo)





A man walks past a giant mural depicting boys running after a wheel, in Dubai on November 30, 2017. (Photo by Giuseppe Cacace/AFP Photo)





Israeli forces walk past a barrier at the Qalandia checkpoint in the occupied West Bank during clashes on December 20, 2017 as protests continue following the US president's controversial recognition of Jerusalem as Israel's capital. (Photo by Thomas Coex/AFP Photo)





A man walks down a sidewalk beside a mural in the Kensington section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., October 25, 2017. (Photo by Shannon Stapleton/Reuters)





A woman takes a picture of a mural of Donald Trump in Dublin, Ireland, December 1, 2017. (Photo by Clodagh Kilcoyne/Reuters)





Lou Chamberlin has been photographing street art in Melbourne, Australia, for more than a decade and, like the city, her new book, Burn City, has collected the best of it. Here: Manofdarkness, Melbourne CBD. The girls in the intricate stencil paintings by Manofdarkness are oblivious to onlookers. They are totally absorbed in what they are doing and display an innocence and a vulnerability that we seem to lose as adults. This is clear in the complex monochromatic figure of the girl holding a hummingbird. The greyscale palette of Manofdarkness helps to give his works a nostalgic and timeless quality. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Rone and Mayonaize, Brunswick. A founding member of Everfresh Studios, Rone first began leaving his mark on Melbourne’s streets and laneways in 2004, about the time the studios began. He is known for his haunting images of women’s faces; his female muses are strong, yet fragile. Rone’s mastery of tone is nowhere more visible than in this golden collaboration in Brunswick, with the calligraffiti of Mayonaize. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





LucyLucy, Box Hill. LucyLucy is a French artist who has made Melbourne her home. Her works always suggest a story or a relationship. This wall in a Box Hill laneway is a celebration of sisterhood with a Japanese city. Her exclusively female characters are always beautiful but she adds to their charm by draping them in delightfully patterned fabrics or twining them with flowing ribbons. Lucy is a member of the AWOL street art collective. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Vexta and ELLE, Collingwood. Vexta’s coloured shards are a much-loved presence in Melbourne. Recently she teamed with fellow New Yorker ELLE to create a wall in the courtyard of a pop-up cafe operating from a refitted caravan in Collingwood. The image on the wall contains layers of symbolism, from ideas of the feminine (constructed by ELLE from a collage of faces of women of different races and ages), to Vexta’s spirit birds, which represent the currawong and the magpie. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Fin DAC, Brighton. Irish artist Fin DAC is based in London but painted one of his distinctive masked women in Brighton when he visited Melbourne in early 2016. She is one of his series of Hidden Beauties. Fin travels the globe, painting each of his female characters with a splash of colour over their eyes. On his recent Antipodean trip he also painted an enormous figure on the ground in Sydney. She is extra special because she can only be truly appreciated from above. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Nychos, Collingwood. Austrian artist Nychos painted this enormous kangaroo in Collingwood in early 2017. Chosen for its local relevance, the ’roo and her joey have been “dissected” in Nychos’s distinctive style. The cut-away anatomy, which leaves the bodies transparent and the organs visible, and the attention to detail are typical of the animals Nychos has painted on walls around the world. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Heesco, Windsor. Born and raised in Mongolia and now living and working in Melbourne, Heesco is well known for his skill in rendering photo-realistic portraits. They speak to the viewer in a way that the subtext is enjoyable to decipher. Just what is the Blue Lady’s message? The sunglasses might mask the confronting gaze but her body language fills in the gaps. Heesco’s characters often wear traditional jewellery and clothing that remind us of his Mongolian cultural heritage. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Adnate, Brunswick. Adnate is one of the world’s pre-eminent large-scale portrait artists. Over the past few years he has spent time in remote Indigenous communities in Arnhem Land and the Kimberley, photographing the people in the portraits he paints. Adnate recently painted members of the local Indigenous community on a set of disused grain silos in the Wimmera. Through his work he hopes to raise awareness of Indigenous issues. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Cam Scale, Fitzroy. Cam Scale enjoys working on a very large surface. Tyesha, painted on a factory wall in a back street of Fitzroy, is a perfect example of his mastery of scale. He is also a fine artist who paints using acrylics and oils as well as aerosol, and has had a number of successful exhibitions. Cam’s love of going big is obvious in his recent towering painting on a set of silos 60 metres wide and 25 metres high in Kimba, South Australia. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





23rd Key, Ringwood. Jess Kease, working under the pseudonym 23rd Key, won the prestigious Australian stencil art prize in 2011. She cuts finely detailed stencils and uses them to create multi-layered works. This portrait of rapper Kanye West conflates the celebrity with William Shakespeare. Kease is one of the few women working in this largely male-dominated medium, and her work is often impressive in size, as with this wall-sized image. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Dvate, Belgrave. Dvate is an artist and graphic designer with a strong reputation for graff lettering, as well as photo-realist skills when painting native animals. This platypus swims in a stream filled with rubbish; further along the wall there is an oil drum and a partially submerged shopping trolley. The Yarra Ranges council funded the wall at the Belgrave station to encourage stormwater drain awareness in an area where the platypus still lives but is vulnerable to pollution. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Guido van Helten, Windsor. This portrait of deaf contemporary dancer Ana Seymour was painted by Guido van Helten on a seven-storey building at Melbourne Polytechnic in January 2017. She is lost in the dance. Van Helten, who is based in Brisbane but spends much of his time travelling and painting, creates site-specific murals that connect with the human stories of the area. This mural reflects the polytechnic’s links to the deaf community via its Auslan diploma course and the presence of the organisation deafConnectED. (Photo by Lou Chamberlin/The Guardian)





Here's Will Ferrell as you've never seen him before. The Hollywood funnyman appears in the latest work by New York City graffiti artist, Hanksy, 2012. “Feral Cats” features the actor's head from various movie roles plastered on to the bodies of several different cats. Hanksy found fame by combining the likeness of actor Tom Hanks with the stencil-style of British street artist Banksy. This latest work was unveiled on a wall in New York's Lower East Side. (Photo by Jason Winslow/Splash News and Pictures)





Pregnant Kate Middleton poses semi-naked – in the latest work by street artist, Pegasus, 2014. The artist, who has been dubbed “the new Banksy”, unveiled his latest creation on a North London wall. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures/Pegasus)





Melbourne street artist LushSux has painted a wall in Melbourne's trendy suburb of Richmond, depicting the controversial scene from Kanye West's music video for “Famous” with Kanye, Kim Kardashian and Taylor Swift in bed together, 2016. The large scale street art shows a naked Taylor Swift lying next to a naked Kanye West. Kim Kardashian is also naked and is lying on the other side of Kanye West. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)





A mural of a topless Melania Trump has been painted on an alley way wall in Melbourne, 2016. A mural of Donald Trump's wife, Melanie Trump, has been painted on a a wall in Collingwood, an inner city suburb of Collingwood. The mural was painted be local graffiti artist “Lush Sux” and shows a topless Melanie Trump with “I'm With Her” written up the top, and Melania xo written underneath. (Photo by Splash News and Pictures)