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EastLink sponsors 2026 Frankston Street Art Festival (16 - 22 March)
2026 Frankston Street Art Festival
Monday 16 - Sunday 22 March
Frankston City Laneways
EastLink is a sponsor of this event.
Save the date for 2026 as Frankston’s Street Art Festival returns for its 9th year.
From 16–22 March 2026, Frankston’s city centre will ignite with colour as nine large-scale murals and projection artworks transform the CBD into a week-long open-air gallery. Expect bold walls, fresh energy and the full force of Frankston’s award-winning street art culture.
By the end of the 2026 festival, Frankston will be home to more than 100 murals by leading Australian and international street artists.
Artists will be actively painting throughout the week — visitors are encouraged to drop by, watch the process, and experience the works as they evolve.
Street Art Studio
As part of the Frankston Street Art Festival and South Side Festival, an empty retail space at Bayside Shopping Centre will be transformed into a pop-up street art gallery located upstairs in the former Toys R Us space off Shannon Street Mall. The pop-up gallery will have artists creating murals, graffiti writing, paste up and cut outs which will be open from Thursday 19 to Sunday 22 March (10am – 4pm daily), giving the public a rare chance to see mixed media art being created in real time.
Artists will paint on temporary walls, with selected removable sections available for public bidding through a silent auction, offering the opportunity to own an original piece of street art created during the festival. Details of the auction site will be uploaded here but you can also scan the QR codes within the gallery once you are in the space and viewing the artwork.
Come to the Street Art Studio Launch Party on Saturday 21 March (6pm-10pm), for music, drinks, and to view the nearly completed works.
The gallery will then continue to open every Saturday (10am–4pm) until the South Side Festival closing party on Saturday 16 May, when bidding closes and artworks can be collected by the lucky bidders!
Hyper State - A solo exhibition by Jack Rowland as part of the Frankston Street Art Festival
Thursday 26 February - Saturday 28 March
Cube 37 - Cube Gallery 37 Davey Street, Frankston
Hyper State presents a series of realist landscapes reimagined through hyper-saturated, unnatural colour palettes. The works explore altered perception and heightened visual states, blurring the boundary between the natural and the surreal.
Free Street Art Tours
Friday 20, Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 March
Discover new artworks on our award-winning street art tours, led by expert guides who bring the city’s walls to life. These free tours unpack the stories, symbolism and creative processes behind each artwork, offering rare insight into the artists and their practice. You may even encounter artists painting live and see new murals taking shape in real time.
Meeting point: 60 Playne Street, Frankston (Frankston Library Forecourt)
Tour Length: approx. 1 hour 15 minutes
Dates: Friday 20, Saturday 21 and Sunday 22 March
Phone: (03) 9784 1060
Book online:
Bookings are essential, limited availability, please book here
Free Street Art Workshops
Saturday 21 March (1pm and 4pm)
Frankston Library forecourt
Free with pre-registration here
Ages 12+
Street art workshops bring the energy of the streets into a hands-on creative experience for young people. Participants experiment with bold mark making and stencil techniques, layering colour and textures onto canvas. Guided by a practising artist you’ll learn how to create stencil designs to cut out and paint. Gaining hands on advice on digital design editing, stencil cutting, application of aerosol, material options and techniques. Each young creative leaves with a finished street art artwork to take home.
