RPM: Revelations Per Minute - Street Art Social
Graffiti in the Northern Quarter, by Hayley Proudfoot Graffiti in the Northern Quarter, by Hayley Proudfoot Graffiti in the Northern Quarter, by Hayley Proudfoot Graffiti in the Northern Quarter, by Hayley Proudfoot
There's a lot of it out there - street art is now as much a feature of the city's character as its iconic buildings or historic art collections.
Only in Britain, unless you're Banksy or Cutup, most it goes uncredited. And yet it's often a witty and intelligent comment on the area is it created in. Take Banksy's sewer rats, Paul 'Moose' Curtis' clean graffiti, created by washing the dirt off the wall, or Another Limited Rebellion's Skull-A-Day project, drawing skulls on the streets of NYC around the trodden-in splats of chewing gum.
So, I'm launching the Street Art Social, which basically means that me and my helpful assistant Hayley Proudfoot will be scanning the streets of Greater Manchester looking for fine examples of street art, taking pictures of it, and putting up a new weekly post of fine examples here for the world wide web to appreciate.
Hayley's taken some shots in the Northern Quarter of the city, all viewable by clicking the image above. If any of them are yours, give us a shout.
And I want your contributions! If it's your art - CLAIM IT! Send me a link to your website or more examples of what you've done and we can post it up here. And if you want to recommend cool street art websites, do that too.
But I also hope it'll open up discussions about the value of street art, provoke questions around the legal issues surrounding it and, perhaps, create both a map of some of our greatest examples of street art and a virtual map of our city's finest street artists.
If you want to get involved, claim work or discuss stuff email me at sarah.walters@citylife.co.uk or comment on the relevant post.
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Published: Tue, 24 March, 2009
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