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Image description: Graffiti of a girl with a heart shaped balloon, from Berlin. Banksy’s status as a street artist will always divide audiences. The crux of the matter is that, on the one hand, graffiti is vandalism and illegal; it dirties up the clean streets and makes the whole place look untidy. That is Brendan […]
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Image description: bridge graffiti reading “GIVE PEAS A CHANCE” For some, it might be a slightly unorthodox way of recognising the NHS and fighting back against the social disruption which has descended upon the country. But the graffiti message on an M25 bridge close to my motorway exit reading “Thank you NHS” is a big […]
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Pro-trans graffiti which reads “trans happiness is real” has been popping up in several areas across Oxford. An Oxlove has been posted with a photo of the graffiti on a bin in Cornmarket street. It has also been alleged that similar messages have been left by Oxford Brookes in Headington, and that stickers have been […]
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Image Credit: Julie Simmons On the night of Saturday 17th, a number of swastikas were spray painted onto the walls of Quarry Pavilion, a community centre located on Margaret Road in Oxford. City Councillor Shaista Aziz took pictures of the graffiti and posted on Twitter that she was “Absolutely disgusted to see Nazi signs sprayed […]
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Abigail Eardley considers the contradictions inherent in the set-up of a graffiti museum. Graffiti is synonymous with being anti-establishment; refusing the common practices of canvas, paint, ornate frame and established art galleries. An art form that often attempts to disassociate from the stifling connotations of art, graffiti is empowered by a distinct apathy towards its […]
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Buildings, cars, more buildings and more cars, all fly past as I speed through downtown, in the scorching desert heat, on my way to MAD Gallery, Dubai. Never has the phrase ‘concrete jungle’ seemed more apt, than amidst this frenzy of all things glitzy and glamorous about extreme urbanization. Never have the glass monsters that […]
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