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Sheffield Street Art


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Guest Martin-Bacon

Photos of Sheffield street art can be found at http://streetart.lowtech.org/

Sheffield in Tasmania has a tradition of producing Street Art, to the benefit of their tourist economy.

With a little more publicity, and encouragement for street artists, perhaps Sheffield, South Yorkshire could also gain from this art form?

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According to the link that Martin-Bacon provides in post #1 it is Sheffield, England and the artists are

Artists:

Bousche, Mila K, Trix9 and xHa Stexo

Who would have thought it, - Sheffield has its very own versions of Banksey and Robbo

I recently watched a TV documentary about this form of urban street art, and regardless of weather it is viewed as criminal graffiti or mere decoration they are clearly skilled artists. If there art was better placed, in a gallery for example, they would make a fortune out of such pieces.

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I recently watched a TV documentary about this form of urban street art, and regardless of weather it is viewed as criminal graffiti or mere decoration they are clearly skilled artists. If there art was better placed, in a gallery for example, they would make a fortune out of such pieces.

Further to this, our neighbouring town to the south, Chesterfield has its own mystery street artists, known in the local newspaper, The Derbyshire Times, as "Chesterfield's Banksey"

Until a year or so ago, Chesterfields welcome signs on the approach roads looked like this, clearly illustrating Chesterfields most famous and prominent landmark, its crooked church spire.

Chesterfield Council then spent a lot of local taxpayers money to have a new sign designed and put in place which consisted of some wavy lines with no reference to the town at all, and without its famous bent spire. The signs were instantly unpopular with locals who were annoyed that their money had been wasted on these inferior signs and many were damaged, like this one.

Then, along comes a very talented artist, "Chesterfield's Banksey" who modifies all the signs to incorporate the local icon. Some see him as a vandal and a criminal, others as the towns saviour. Most people like his modification and prefer it to the Council's own attempt. However, his identity is unknown and for legal reasons he cannot come forward and reveal himself.

The Council refuse to accept the modification by "a criminal graffiti artist" even though most people actually like and prefer his modified design. To solve the problem the Council produce their own version of the modified design in an attempt to resolve the situation.

Personally, I still prefer the "Chesterfield's Bansey" version.

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A couple of weeks ago when the 'missile' first appeared there was quite a funny piece in the Quidnunc column in the Telegraph about the 'near miss' being part of the rivalry between two of the pubs.

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