King Street is the main street of Newtown and centre of commercial and entertainment activity. Enmore Road branches off King Street towards the suburb of Enmore at Newtown Bridge, where the road passes over the railway line at Newtown Station. The main shopping strip of Newtown is the longest and most complete commercial precinct of the late Victorian and Federation period in Australia. King Street is often referred to as "Eat Street" in the media due to the large number of cafes, pubs and restaurants. Newtown is a centre of Thai cuisine, but its diverse culture has attracted an astounding array of cuisines, including Balinese, Chinese, Vietnamese and Japanese, Indian, Italian, Greek, Mexican, Spanish, African, French, Turkish, Sri Lankan, Lebanese and both traditional and modern Australian. Cafes, restaurants and galleries can also be found ini the streets surrounding King Street - in particular Enmore Road, Wilson Street and Australia Street.
Since Newtown is city of first suburban shopping centre outside the City Centre it has large number of people that visits this town. The mood of Newtown is very cultural, as well as unique with all different individual style of shops all around the main road, King Street. Today this thoroughfare us still a shopper's mecca - lined with hundreds or stores, cafes, restaurants and lively pubs. Also the Newtown area has long been a very diverse melting pot, with people of many ethnic backgrounds and this vibrant local colour and 'flavour' extends into neighbouring suburbs around Newtown. Newtown is very open and individual cultural area which relates to all creativeness to this town. Relation with music, performing art different type of sex, such as gay and lesbians, different culture and clothing.
For this Project 3, the theme of Newtown links strongly with the contemporary art, because of its individuality of design and unique creation of art works and its use of colour and materials also gives strong connection to characteristic of Newtown.
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