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Joshua Smith is a Miniature Sculpture and Stencil Artist based in Adelaide, South Australia. Showcasing his work all around the globe in galleries in London, Paris, Berlin, Melbourne and soon Hong Kong the artist perfectly recreates gritty and decaying urban landscapes. Initially a Stencil Artist for 16 years as well as running an art gallery Josh turned to the world of miniature sculpture last year to try something new.

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On Facebook. In Stockholm, Sweden. Photo by Andreas Lindahl.

You have to look incredibly close to see it, but Joshua Smith packs an immense amount of detail into his miniature worlds. The Australian artist has a flair for the microscopic, and his latest project captures the familiar grit of urban life in a fascinatingly small-scale model.

Hi Everyone I just completed my latest project I'm calling Graffiti Condemned City Building which took me a lot longer than normal to build, plus I was also taking my time with trying to give it a more artistic look to it. It was very challenging for me to try and cover up my brick work that I was very proud of with Graffiti, but I so wanted to give it that old city run down look. I spent about a month creating this building and tried a different technique for my paperclay brick work that I…

Graffiti Desktop Dumpsters by Ryan Christensen of Steelplant are artist-decorated desktop planters or containers that look like real dumpsters

Artist Joshua Smith's tiny creations replicate real buildings.

Photographer Emily Paxton and artist Pam Glew of PaxtonGlew have curated an exhibition of tiny houses, stores, and train cars that is unlike your typical model village. Instead of pristine new buildings, each model is hand-painted with graffiti and colorful murals. Together the miniatures form a well-worn city from the collective imagination of over 40Continue reading "A Subversive Village of Urban Miniatures Covered in Graffiti and Tiny Murals"