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Melbourne Stencil Festival is Australia's premier celebration of international street and stencil art. Since being its inauguration in 2004, Stencil Festival has become an annual art event and touring exhibition.

Held for 10 days each year, the festival brings an colorful program of exhibitions, artist live demonstrations, artist talks, panel discussions, workshops, master classes and street art related films to the general public.

Its much anticipated festival exhibitions feature works by emerging and established artists from Australia and around the world.

In the past four years Stencil Festival has featured some 800 works by 150 artists including Logan Hicks, Kenji Nakayama, Broken Crow, Mephisto Jones, Sixten, and Australian artists Anthony Lister, Meggs, HaHa, Vexta amongst others. For many artists it has been the first major exhibition and a keystone for their career.

The first Melbourne Stencil Festival was held in a former sewing factory in North Melbourne in 2004. The 3day exhibition attracted audience numbers far beyond expectation. Its sellout show became soon talk of town amongst those who had visited the festival and those who had missed out.

The 2005 festival featured a 10day exhibition at the newly refurbished Meat Market art complex. The festival was supported by the City of Melbourne and saw more than 700 visitors on the opening night.

In 2006 the festival moved to Fitzroy, the heart of street in Melbourne, and was held at the Rose St Artists Market. For the first time the 4-day event was also held in Sydney. It received reviews in major mainstream media in Melbourne and Sydney

In 2007 the festival featured a total of 75 artists from 12 countries with more than 300 works. The Melbourne event alone was attended by more than 4000 visitors with 500 people on the opening night alone. It also attracts a wide range of media coverage including daily newspapers, community radio and street press.

It toured regionally with the support of Arts Victoria to Ballarat, Sale and Shepparton, and on its own effort interstate to Sydney, Brisbane and Perth.