Event organiser and celebrated urban artist Inkie explained:
“Nothing of this size and scale has ever taken place in the UK and it’s an event that has captured the minds of some the world’s most respected street artists. It’s a major coupé that we’ve managed to pull this off in Bristol.”
(http://whatshotinbristol.com/news-2/see-no-evil-international-street-art-music-event-at-nelson-street-bristol-18th-to-20th-august-2011)
Tuesday 3 January 2012
Wednesday 28 September 2011
Feedback:
As I live in Bristol, I now intend to contact the organisers of the recent Street Art Exhibition currently seen on Nelson Street in order to find out why and how they managed to get the governement to back and allow commision to the project. I also intend to do this with the Banksy exhibition held at the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery in 2009.
As a recommendation, I will watch 'Exit Through The Gift Shop' as this apparently follows the journey of a unknown street artist who breaks through the mainstream in order to get his work in an exhibition. - Thus highlighting the issue of when does graffiti become street art?
As a recommendation, I will watch 'Exit Through The Gift Shop' as this apparently follows the journey of a unknown street artist who breaks through the mainstream in order to get his work in an exhibition. - Thus highlighting the issue of when does graffiti become street art?
Wednesday 21 September 2011
Proposal:
As a starting point to my extended project, I would like to explore the idea: "when does graffiti become street art?".
After recently watching an interesting programme on the long battle between famous graffiti artists Banksy and Robbo, it claimed that some of Banksy's artwork is protected by the government whilst others are simply washed off. This, to me, raised the question as to when does the government concider graffiti to actually be legal 'street art'?
This idea was also partly triggered by the recent 'street art' painted in Bristol on Nelson Street. A government funded exhibition once again triggering why this is aloud but other, less well know 'street art' isn't.
Below is a link from youtube of the street art festival in Bristol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfp6a0rEcqc
After recently watching an interesting programme on the long battle between famous graffiti artists Banksy and Robbo, it claimed that some of Banksy's artwork is protected by the government whilst others are simply washed off. This, to me, raised the question as to when does the government concider graffiti to actually be legal 'street art'?
This idea was also partly triggered by the recent 'street art' painted in Bristol on Nelson Street. A government funded exhibition once again triggering why this is aloud but other, less well know 'street art' isn't.
Below is a link from youtube of the street art festival in Bristol:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfp6a0rEcqc
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