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 has grown from three, working in the inner city of Sydney to people working across Australia, and across the world!

People from 8 to 71 years of age are now active in BUGA UP. These include 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 site is dedicated to the activists 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.