Rone is the pseudonym of Tyrone Wright (born 1980), an internationally renowned street artist based in Melbourne, Australia. History Rone grew up in the city of Geelong, Victoria, before moving to Melbourne in 2001. In 2002, he started decorating skateboards and skate parks before beginning to put paste-ups and stencils on walls around Melbourne. He is known for his iconic "Jane Doe" images. In the earlier years of his career, Rone used to use wheat pasting to do quick paste-ups in busy locations, but nowadays Rone's work on the streets are mostly created using traditional painting materials such as rollers and paintbrushes. Some of the locations he has painted include New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Miami, Paris, Berlin, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Santo Domingo, Mexico, Havana, Christchurch, and Port Vila. Rone’s work is now found as often in galleries as it is on the streets. His work has been acquisitioned by institutions such as the National Gallery of Australia and the National Gallery of Victoria and has been shown by Stolen Space in London, Opera Gallery in New York, White Walls in San Francisco, Urban Nation in Berlin, and Backwoods Gallery in Melbourne. He has also worked on a Jean Paul Gaultier museum exhibit and is a brand ambassador for Uniqlo. In February 2021, Rone received an arts grant from the Australian federal government for $1.86 million. It is one of the largest amounts awarded to a single artist in Australian history. Exhibitions Since 2016 Rone has been creating immersive art installations in abandoned buildings. The first of these, EMPTY, took place in the old Star Lyric Theatre building in Fitzroy, Melbourne. Opened in 1911 and once seating 2,300 patrons, it was one of the first permanent movie theatres in Victoria. When Rone found out the building would soon be demolished, he asked to use the space for an art exhibition. 12,000 patrons came to the show over 10 days, and photographs featured in the show are now part of the National Gallery of Victoria's permanent collection. In 2017, he was invited to transform the machine rooms of the old Alphington Paper Mill, which was built in the 1910s and was Victoria’s first paper mill. A clandestine project, Rone completed a series of murals inside the decrepit building in secret. Because of health and safety requirements, only a small group of people were able to view the works, which