I have always liked this art, and have often thought that I'd like to get a 'graffiti' artist to do a piece of work at my home. Perhaps on a wall in the back garden or on a wall inside the house.
I suppose it would be quite hard to find someone to do such a piece of work, unless of course you knew someone personally.
It's a great form of art, which I love, when it's not done somewhere it will cause annoyance.
Two art students who went on a two-year graffiti spree in Liverpool have been spared prison.
Ian Town, 24, and 23-year-old Charlotte Backhouse, both from South Drive, West Derby, admitted 26 charges of damaging property at Liverpool Crown Court.
The couple are believed to have caused damage estimated at about £65,000.
Both were given nine month sentences which were suspended for two years after their university lecturer gave them glowing testimonies.
John Young, a senior lecturer in graphic art at Liverpool John Moores University, said he believed the pair had ceased criminal behaviour by the time of their arrest in 2006. more...
Has anyone snapped the pair's work? I've seen it all over Liverpool:
Two art students who went on a two-year graffiti spree in Liverpool have been spared prison.
Ian Town, 24, and 23-year-old Charlotte Backhouse, both from South Drive, West Derby, admitted 26 charges of damaging property at Liverpool Crown Court.
The couple are believed to have caused damage estimated at about £65,000.
Both were given nine month sentences which were suspended for two years after their university lecturer gave them glowing testimonies.
John Young, a senior lecturer in graphic art at Liverpool John Moores University, said he believed the pair had ceased criminal behaviour by the time of their arrest in 2006. more...
Has anyone snapped the pair's work? I've seen it all over Liverpool:
I wish they'd gone down for it. They've done a few nice pieces but a majority of their stuff is simply obnoxious tagging.
Words of Hope. I think they refer to the shopping precinct which like many others in Liverpool deteriorated badly with the advent of the large Supermarkets. These central parade shops are due for demolition to be replaced by a new shopping centre ironically based aroud yet another supermarket.
Well we woke up on Sunday morning to find someone had stencilled our front door ,It was a stencil of bleedin Arnie Swarz whatever his name is, of all people to have on your door, i was bloody livid , Had to buy graffitti remover , which brought it off completly , They also stencilled a neighbours garage doors , They seem to like the white flat surface . I've had a laugh about it since , but i'd still like to rearrange the culprits teeth ,
I love graffiti art thats done well, rather than random tags, theres even magazines like graphitism now which goes to show its taken more seriously. I go to a studio space in parr street, used to love seeing the changes on the jump ship rat walls, its now a greek restaurant. Does anyone have photos from that?
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