Manda Lane - Melbourne Artist | Murals, Paper Installations & Public Art
Manda Lane is a Melbourne street artist working across hand-cut paper installations, murals, and laneway pasteups. Her practice centres on the tension between nature and the urban environment, using plants as a lens to explore the concept of re-wilding in cities - the way vines reclaim brickwork, weeds push through concrete, and tree roots fracture footpaths. Her work argues that nature is not passive - it resists, reclaims, and persists within the built world.
Manda works from Everfresh Studios in Collingwood, Melbourne. Her visual influences draw from traditional botanical illustration and contemporary fine-line tattoo design. Her subject matter is drawn from the overgrown, weedy corners of inner-city Melbourne and the intricate details of native Australian flora.
Paper Installations
Manda's large-scale hand-cut paper installations challenge the perception of paper as a fragile material, demonstrating its structural strength and durability at scale. Recent commissions include work for the Ritz Carlton Hotel Melbourne, Visit Victoria, sculptural public art for Merri-bek Council, and pieces held in gallery exhibitions and private collections across Australia.
Murals
Manda's mural practice involves hand-painting detailed botanical compositions directly onto walls and architectural surfaces. Her murals combine intensely tangled fine detail with large-scale botanical forms, depicting plants climbing and interacting with the surfaces they inhabit. She was commissioned by the National Gallery of Victoria for the 2022 NGV Architectural Commission, and has painted for Dorsett Hotel Melbourne, the Metro Tunnel project, local councils, and private clients across Victoria and New South Wales.
Public Art & Laneways
Beyond formal commissions, Manda regularly installs hand-cut paper works in Melbourne's laneways and public spaces, placing art in neglected urban corners where the surrounding environment becomes part of the work itself.
Selected Clients
• National Gallery of Victoria (NGV Architecture Commission, 2022–23; Temple of Boom)
• Ritz Carlton Hotel, Melbourne
• Bendigo Art Gallery
• Dorsett Hotel, Melbourne
• Agriculture Victoria
• Visit Victoria
• Metro Tunnel Project, Melbourne
• Melbourne Design Week
• St Kilda Botanical Gardens
• ABC Arts (Tiny Oz)
• Merri-bek Council
• Various local councils and private clients, Victoria and NSW
About
Through her practice, Manda Lane investigates how plants and cities exist in constant tension - sometimes in conflict, sometimes in coexistence. Her work invites viewers to notice overlooked urban ecologies and to consider how nature continues to reshape, infiltrate, and outlast the human-built environment
Photography credits - P1xels