February 2011
Moving on from the colourful and often carefully planned type of wall decoration, with its self-defined (though fluid and variable) boundaries, we meet the inevitable scribbling and random tagging.
More …February 2011
Personally, I don’t feel better about my world if I see a load of greyish concrete, and as far as I’m aware, grey concrete underpasses usually have no architectural merit. So if I’m cycling down one of the urban cycle tracks and see colourful embellishments of the more skilful variety covering a bit of grey concrete, I’m often cheered up, rather than offended. And I know I’m not alone.
More …August 2010
One of the reasons for my recent visit to the Hungate area was to see this community art exhibition on the theme of York’s city walls. The artwork was created in May and June … More …
3 November 2006
There’s been colour on these walls down the side of Clifton Bingo for as long as I can remember. Every now and then, it changes. It’s just been repainted recently.
I don’t … More …
Summer-autumn 2004
There’s been an anti-graffiti campaign locally inviting residents to ‘turn in a tagger’. This is obviously a controversial issue – it costs a lot to clean up graffiti, and much of it is an ugly mess. But some of it is colourful or witty and is found … More …
