At the height of the COVID19 lockdowns, West Australian visual artist Sam Bloor and Melbourne-based photographer Jesse Marlow found a creative connection across closed borders. The series began with a simple exchange: Marlow’s photographs sent across the country, Bloor’s words written in response. Installed as paste-up posters in their respective cities, the works appeared unannounced in public space. Rooted in a shared attentiveness to the street and its textures, both artists work with the visual language of cities: the unnoticed, the residual, the poetic potential of public life. Marlow’s photographs, captured with clarity and restraint. Bloor’s short-form text works read like aphorisms or fragments of overheard thoughts. Together, they offer a space to pause, notice, think and feel. The city doesn’t know your name (2025), from the series Street posters (2020–2025) is shown for the first time large scale.

Image: Photo by Tim Palman.