1. DROP; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)
2. GRIFT; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)
3. RCS; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)
4. ICN; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)
5. UEK/RFA; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)
6. Stencil Art; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)
7. Political Tagging; Dublin Graff (’05 – ’07)
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Sticker City (3) – St. Patrick’s Athletic
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This for me is the REAL Dublin graffiti – the unconsidered and overlooked. You have to really go looking for this stuff.
http://www.stoneybutter.com/project/physical-grafitti/
Hi Gregory,
For me Its not creative at all. It should be overlooked. Its meant to be street art not tennagers writing ‘sex’ on the wall or bad tagging attempts. Lots of nice areas in stoneybatter ‘where iam living’ are destroyed with shit graffiti. The creative aspects of graffiti should be encourage with these youths and projects to allow areas disignated for these. My friend was the creator of the graffti art project on dublins electricty boxes around the city. Council messed it up by using them for adds and maps tho.
Thats said I do like your other pictures. They are very well done and an interesting find.
Dear Tony,
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. What’s unique for me about this form of graffiti is that there is no artistic intent at all. Sometimes different people unwittingly collaborate and the various layers, colours and materials produce something quite beautiful without anybody being aware of it.
The vast majority of this material is to be found up laneways, behind groupings of shops, on lock-up garages, on waste ground etc. Unlike taggers who destroy the city in the most public of places, a lot of this vernacular graffiti is completely out of view to the passer-by. That’s what’s interesting to me. In order to find this stuff I’ve risked life and limb in many areas that most sane people wouldn’t venture. I too live in Stoneybatter and also despair at shit graffiti but almost none of the images in my ongoing ‘Physical Graffiti’ collection are visible from the streets or main thoroughfares there (or anywhere else). I have no particular problem with what you term ‘creative’ graffiti or (good?) tagging especially when it’s to be found within the auspices of a designated area, my question is why can’t there be an indigenous style of street art that’s not aping an urban north American aesthetic some thirty five years it was invented?