Graffiti artists

Ta Alex might try to do a little zine with it.

Nice! And cheers for the follow back ;-)

I’ve been rummaging around in my photo shoeboxes for old photos of mine. Annoyingly I only seem to have early stuff, from when I was mainly painting London/herts/Cambridge. I think my Bristol stuff was post-film, early digital camera-owning days and the photos just havnt survived.

Good motivation to get out and paint some new stuff I suppose

yeah, agreed, you really need to go with a note book. the info panels are really good, they contextualise really well; i note that Beyond the Streets did all this not the Saatchi, I'm inclined not to give too much kudos to the Saatchi!

yeah its all the beyond the streets guys. im gonna head back in a week or two

yeah get out and paint some bits im tempted to head out and do some simple stuff in leek st. or even the bowl in kennington oval

took Mrs M to see the Beyond the streets exhibition, and her honest opinion were two points. Underwhelmed and clearly curated through a white lens.

I like the collection, especially the personal stuff (whilst not graffiti, is anchored in a time of my life I can relate) i will probably visit again alone since I have membership and can drop by anytime. however Mrs M also pointed out that street art should be witnessed insitu, not in a downtown gallery that is sterile, out of context, to the tune of £25

I’ve not seen the exhibition in question, but I’m inclined to agree in broad terms. There is a lot of street art that, stripped of its context, is just mediocre art or worse. I tend to think this about graff. A piece can look absolutely fantastic on a train or even a legal wall, but do it on a canvas and hang it up and it just looks lame. There’s also the transient nature of graff/street art. There’s something that appeals to my sort of artistic nihilism that you can spend time and effort on something that could be gone before you next walk down that street.

These look great

Would definitely be interested in this. Love the concept.

as i understand it, the exhibitions have attempted to draw local context (in this case uk/europe) into the history of graffit. if there are poc graffiti writers who need to be in the history of graf in the uk/eu and are missing from the show, it’s important to me to have that pointed out.

I've been doing some 'pick a random work' outlines with a mate recently. Anyone fancy doing some here? If so, someone pick a word!

SLAM

When you look at the names, it is very white dominated but also a lot of the artists I dont think you know who they are so they could be anyone. I guess street art is now the hype thing to sell to people with too much money or money to burn and want the next great thing.

I really like that guy Priest's stuff but also think £25 for entry is a bit of a bump.

Cool. A mate I went to school with (who subsequently did pretty well in the street art world) wrote with someone called Slam

I'll try to get an out line done tonight.1✌️

SLAM

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Ooooooh yess...that S.🔥

Great stuff. Killer M.

Fun word to do for me as I hate an S and I’m not that fond of As 😄

Ta the m is nice A came out a bit wonky the top needs to thicker but was trying a different style

Your s on slam is so good love the style

Both sick. I wanna play.

Cheers! My old stuff was always just complicated for the sake of it (you’ve probably seen my old pieces on my insta) but the letterforms were junk. I’m trying to keep things simpler and pay attention to the letters a lot more, these days.

Dü it! Also you just volunteered to choose the next word :-D

This is a good thing to have on hand for lettering inspo.

I probably can’t play until the weekend (work/kids) but here’s a new word: case.

I always find ‘c’ and lowercase ‘e’ difficult to get happy with.

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