Graffiti artists

Very similar

I didn't do this by the way, and I know I probably shouldn't, but I lol'd.

some nice pieces on the thames wall by beckton sewerage works

and one from somewhere along the north circular nr beckton, stevenage road

both from brick lane, should have got closer to the ukranian tractor one hopefully it's visible

I love the tractor! I copied it to photos, ready to steal it to my shooting forum. And then realised that nobody at all would get the reference, which made me sad. So I have just kept it in my photos to make me smile. Kudos to the artist.

God I miss graffiti so much. Ive moved and theres a wall I go past everyday that was perfect and bare and now is pieced out to max. I love it so much. Seems like euro is finally dying out and proper (to me) writers are here to stay.
Now I jist need to find my flow again and buy some plywood, Im too old to be naughty :(

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As northern monkey as I am London has the best canals, these are so good!
Manchester too.

Love it! Keep posting up.

Quick piece done at an exhibition launch last week

Mine on the left and another local artist emic on the right

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Nice one. Love them pumas

Gotta rep the old skool pumas

Fun piece yesterday in Belfast as part of a streetart festival

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Nice one

Another fun one today with the legend that is Andy council

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really good.

Hung up today.

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Oh yesssss.

Oh, that's nice

Looking crisp!

Some recent shutters for a shop in town

Didn't think the client would go for the hot rod prams but I took a chance on it and he loved it

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Nice one 👍 👏

Brilliant!

That’s awesome

so as somebody who isn’t into ‘graff’ can anyone explain the schism between street art and graffiti?
looking in from the outside it seems that street art is the palatable socially acceptable end and the true graffiti artists detest this with a passion so will tag the shit out of it. is this the case?

there is a Gary x Pref piece near me and it didn’t take long for it to to be tagged and essentially vandalised.
happy to be educated on this bit it seems that the extreme ends of the spectrum really don’t like each other?

You've got it spot on

Graff writers generally aren't fans of street artist.
Graffiti is generally done illegally and is self taught or passed on from toehr writers
In my view they generally look at street artists as people who only paint legal walls, don't follow 'the rules' of Graff, do it for the wrong reasons. I could go on here
Then there's the whole stencils/projectors etc. That Graff writers can't stand due to it being seen as colouring in

Tldr: street art is usually pretty pictures and Graff is hard to decipher and usually done by writers for writers not general consumption