The Gallery has been updated with more of our 'Greatest Hits'
Plus, the BUGA-UP Youtube Channels have several clips and documentaries.
NOT A GROUP - A MOVEMENT
A lot of paint has sprayed from the can since the inception of BUGA-UP in October 1979. Since then the number of graffitists actively involved in BUGA-UP grew from three people working in the inner city of Sydney to people working across Australia, and across the world!
People from 8 to 71 years old were active in BUGA-UP. These included entire families - carpenters, domestic and health workers, graphic artists, hairdressers, taxi-drivers, a wrestler, journalists, students, pensioners, research and metal workers, kindergarten teachers, technicians, public servants, unionists and clergy - to name but a few!
Originally the BUGA-UP campaign was broadly aimed at all unhealthy billboard advertisements.
However, in response to public opinion we soon focussed our attention on tobacco & alcohol promotions
and other promotions that were socially and visually assaulting.
This was one of the earliest examples of
Culture Jamming
in the world, and certainly in Australia.
This site is dedicated to the activistes who have not only risked arrest,
but injury through fence-jumping, scaffold-climbing, dog-chasing
and the dreaded spray-back on those cold windy nights.
The Billbored Newsletters - 1982-1985 in the
Publications
section provide a chronological documentation of many BUGA-UP activities,
and provide a good historical record of the movement.
BUGA UP – You’ve come a long way baby article by Frances van Zinnen published in Overland magazine, August 2012