Tag: Street Art
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Banksy: from Kirkwall to Glasgow
I am one for letting journeys unfold, as planning ahead is not my forte. Sometimes one experience segues into another, like when I managed to get a ticket to the Cut and Run Exhibition at the Glasgow GoMA. This exhibition is probably the closest Banksy will come to doing a retrospective and sharing something of…
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Kirkwell: home of discreet street art
The Orkney Islands are known for their archaeology – and I will get to that – not their street art. Graffiti is very much an urban art form in my mind, part of the gritty jumble of cities where built environments create ‘canvases’ in alley ways, underpasses, overpasses, abandoned buildings, and on unadorned walls. I…
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The synergy of weeds and graffiti
While walking along the bike track along the Yarra River in Richmond, Melbourne I found joy in weeds for once. I love the way nature completed the graffiti artwork.