Monster

 
When is graffiti no graffiti.  When its authorised and done by the council.   Japan has this respect for superheros you just dont get anywhere else.  Can you imagine London councils painting Fat Slags over public toilets or the US spray painting XKCD sencils onto New York subway walls. Not likely.
Link (from Gizmodo)

My Newtown Graffiti book

The final touches to my Sydney, Newtown graffiti book have finally been completed.  Check it out at Blurb.com (link is inlcuded below).
It’s so cool to have it finally completed.  It catalogues about 4 years worth of photos I’ve taken of Sydney’s graffiti neighborhoods of Newtown, Erskineville, Enmore, Camperdown.  
There approxamately 120 photos in all including [...]

Reverse Graffiti

 

I love this.  Reverse Graffiti takes the elements of graffiti  that highlight the hypocrisy of council policies, public property laws and definitions of vandalism and ratchets them all up a notch.
It’s so clean in its pure expression of the clumsiness of policy to deal with public art. Reverse Graffiti is the removal of dirt or [...]

Pest Control v Vermin

 

Seems like the art-graffiti showdown is upon us as Pest Control, the Banksy-backed authentication body set up by Steve Lazarides of Lazarides gallery is attempting to get Vermin’s street art Banksy’s removed from the Lyon & Turnbull Contemporary artauction, set to start viewings on Thursday this week in Marlebone.
The Telegraph has a update on the controversial auction: 
“The [...]

Banksy authentication

Artnet have a very interesting article on the companies formed around providing some credibility (note, not authenticity) around street art and more specifically Banksy’s work.
The first is Pest Control, which is loosely based around Lazarides gallery.
This in itself isn’t very surprising as it is the largest distributor of Banksy artwork and prints and [...]

Cans Festival 2 at Waterloo

Leake street has gone through another incarnartion as officially sanctioned graffiti zone. The first Cans Festival in May was restricted to stencil art but this bank holiday has been extended to free hand.
No Banksy’s on display on this one, I’m afraid. But stacks of burnt out cars with Jackson Pollock-syled paint splatterings [...]

American Graffiti

The Antonio family caught between taggers and the council. They can graffiti their own walls how they like it and at their own expense and face arrest or they can paint the wall of their shop a dirty beige and leave it for the taggers to nail.
Echoes of how councils have little idea on how [...]

Sign o’ the times

Seems construction workers around cheapside (and there are a few of them) have been contributing their own opinions on their apparant second class status.
Saw a truck driving around the city the other day – I think it was HSH Tools and the tag line under the corporate logo was [...]