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Brightening up the bricks

c_m | 09.12.2004 19:09 | Culture | Free Spaces | Oxford

Beautiful street art is popping up all over Oxford. Here's a roundup of the latest pieces. Graffiti is easy (check out the sites below for ideas). Anyone can pick up a piece of chalk - express yourself!

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SPAZ?

10.12.2004 18:13

Does that say spaz? If so it seems appropriate. That anyone can think that eyesores are front page headlines is beyond me. Is Indymedia about dumbing down those who want an alternative to mainstream news?

Spazmo

No, it says "Paz"

10.12.2004 20:20

"Paz" is Spanish for "peace".

Clickety-clack

DIY you lazy troll

11.12.2004 01:37

> That anyone can think that eyesores are front page headlines is beyond me.

OK, if you have a better idea of what should be worthy news, write it!

"Someone has said that it requires less mental effort to condemn than to think."
-Emma Goldman

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grat graff!

16.12.2004 23:28

glad to see one of the most independant for of media is still alive and kicking in oxford!

local resident

peace, freedom, liberation and expression

10.03.2005 10:55

"that anyone can think that eyesores are front page headlines is beyond me"
is art not a primary form of expression? if it was a film supporting peace and freedom would that be acceptable?
we are able to express ourselves in multiplous ways, and if someone chooses to tell us of a bit of freedom and light in our dreary capitalist world then i grok it is a goodness.
compare indymedia to  http://www.thesun.com and you'll probably see this art and expresison more favourably.
danke schon mein freund facist

Sir Trüt
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chalk ?

11.03.2005 17:43

Chalk?! How about using a spraycan if you want to do graffiti!!!
No war but class war!

Antifascist

The right to a clean public space

20.03.2005 11:58

What if people don't want to look at your graffitti? Why should they be forced to? What if they prefer clean walls, instead of all the visual pollution?

Kira

Unconvinced

07.05.2005 10:34

Hmm, that's not really "beautiful" is it. It's just ugly and rather childish. Quite how people think graffiti is going to "bring down the system", rather than just make towns look run down and unpleasant, is quite beyond me.

Brian Sewell

looks cool to me...

19.05.2005 13:48

i've seen some smashing grafitti around the place...barcelona, just off the ramblas springs to mind, where 'pax' and 'tofu' did some wicked pasted-poster graf. it brightened up the place, reclaimed the space from the corporate nonsense and was evidence of a thriving underground scene. advertisers have the cash to inflcit their rubbish ads on us, i personally enjoy the spraycan/whatever art that individuals risk arrest to display.

rock on, grafitti massive!

daf

daf

street art is good for the sole

19.08.2005 10:11

During October and November 2005, the renowned Bristol street artist, gHOSTbOY, is embarking on an arts project in which he plans to place a series of adulterated garden gnomes in urban situations such as galleries, forecourts, on walls, in car parks, toilet blocks and in other unusual public spaces throughout UK cities.
These works will play with the notion that, after moving to the inner city, the naive gnomes are compelled towards certain means of nefarious subsistence, so commenting on the dangerous lure that the big city has on the childlike (simple) dreams of the innocent.
A number of sites have already been confirmed, in Bristol, Wales, Shefield. and Birmingham.

gHOSTbOY is applying for Arts Council funding to further realise this project.

In order to help him secure this funding, he needs letters offering sites for the gnomes.

Can you offer a site, or do you know of anyone who might be interested in offering a site for these extraordinary artistic interventions?

If you can help in any way, please contact gHOSTbOY at:  info@ghostboy.co.uk

For further information about gHOSTbOY’s art visit www.ghostboy.co.uk

Sarah

street aet is good for the sole

19.08.2005 10:13

During October and November 2005, the renowned Bristol street artist, gHOSTbOY, is embarking on an arts project in which he plans to place a series of adulterated garden gnomes in urban situations such as galleries, forecourts, on walls, in car parks, toilet blocks and in other unusual public spaces throughout UK cities.
These works will play with the notion that, after moving to the inner city, the naive gnomes are compelled towards certain means of nefarious subsistence, so commenting on the dangerous lure that the big city has on the childlike (simple) dreams of the innocent.
A number of sites have already been confirmed, in Bristol, Wales, Shefield. and Birmingham.

gHOSTbOY is applying for Arts Council funding to further realise this project.

In order to help him secure this funding, he needs letters offering sites for the gnomes.

Can you offer a site, or do you know of anyone who might be interested in offering a site for these extraordinary artistic interventions?

If you can help in any way, please contact gHOSTbOY at:  info@ghostboy.co.uk

For further information about gHOSTbOY’s art visit www.ghostboy.co.uk

Sarah