The concept is an international one, it’s a battle of lyricless wit between choice graffiti artists across a wall wider than your mother's sari, judged 'Eight-mile' style by the audience, and with the incentive to be elevated through a national league system hoping to literally take on the world.

Artists were billed as performers and impressed everyone who went through the door or even just wal…

Is street art devaluing Nottingham, or rather enhancing the city's culture? Despite the council's efforts to clean up Nottingham and bring an end to graffiti, the urban phenomenon lives on. The question is, should this form of cultural and political expression really be deemed illegal? Or should a difference be made between creative street art and mindless tagging and vandalism?

Friday 31 August 2012

Notts Property graffiti and street art festival comes to a full stop today.

"A 25-year-old English Defence League member has pleaded guilty to daubing racist graffiti on land being considered as a site for a mosque." (BBC News)

Interestingly, the incident was reported on 23rd June and they've already managed to find him and drag him in front of a magistrate. Was he stupid enough to brag about it online? Or did he just get caught on, and recognised from, CCTV?

According to an article in the Newark Advertiser, Nazi graffiti has appeared in Newark, with swastikas being scrawled on the front door of an internationally-renowned French fashion photographer, Michel Haddi, of Millgate, who has a Jewish girlfriend and on a car belonging to Ruth Vella who lives nearby. It is unclear if these are the actions of idiot kids or indicate something more serious.

A Graffiti Session, exhibition, and a bit of a party etc.

A Graffiti Session, exhibition, and a bit of a party etc.

Artworks graffiti on a record shop on the Mansfield Road, Nottingham.



Portrait of a little bit of civil disobedience.



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