Graffiti artwork on show at NRM

8:52am Wednesday 8th August 2012 in News

Sam Potts, of the National Railway Museum, looks at the new graffiti artwork Sam Potts, of the National Railway Museum, looks at the new graffiti artwork

A SWATHE of graffiti has appeared at one of York’s biggest tourist attractions, thanks to a team of artists.

The Graffiti Kings have spent two weeks creating a selection of street art to be hung around the National Railway Museum, using paints donated by Humbrol.

Darren Cullen, from the Graffiti Kings, said: “Working at the NRM over the last week running our Street Art workshops has been really great. The people taking part are really getting creative, who knows, we may even find a new member to our Graffiti Kings team.”

Zoe Roberts, developer of public programmes, said: “We’ve really enjoyed working with the Graffiti Kings on such an exciting project.

“This striking artwork has not only enabled us to engage with our visitors in a completely new way, but it has allowed items from our collection to be viewed from a very different and unique perspective.”

Comments(10)

jadestars says...
10:03am Wed 8 Aug 12

Are the street art workshops still going on? Shame it's the first i've heard about this! How long is the graffiti art on display and is NRM still free entry?

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spiritofyork says...
11:31am Wed 8 Aug 12

we shouldn't encurage it, its a crime. public sector again!

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ShunGokuSatsu says...
11:58am Wed 8 Aug 12

spiritofyork wrote:
we shouldn't encurage it, its a crime. public sector again!
It's a crime to paint on private property without permission. It's not a crime to attach a comissioned painting to a wall with full permission, you colossal idiot.

Coming up later: spiritofyork lambasts valets for encouraging car theft.

Getting community kids involved in creative endeavours like this is fantastic. I'm not terribly enamoured with the paintings themselves but it's nice to see projects like this getting support from respected local institutions like the NRM.

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jadestars says...
12:10pm Wed 8 Aug 12

spiritofyork wrote:
we shouldn't encurage it, its a crime. public sector again!
It is not a crime unless painted on private property without permission ... my daughter has sprayed my entire garden shed with graffiti art and it looks fantastic, It is an art and true talent, shame it's rarely recognised as such though!

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Blimp says...
1:08pm Wed 8 Aug 12

Brilliant love it! More please.

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NoNewsIsGoodNews says...
6:41pm Wed 8 Aug 12

Finally the press can report graffiti in a positive light for a change.

Just a shame that the council, in their infinite wisdom removed the only legal painting wall in York, giving future artists nowhere to practice or showcase their talents.

Also wish I knew about this before hand, would have liked to have gone down there and meet Darren and the other artists involved.

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lowbeam says...
8:09pm Wed 8 Aug 12

Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place(wikipedia)..
so these are paintings not graffito..

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NoNewsIsGoodNews says...
9:20pm Wed 8 Aug 12

lowbeam wrote:
Graffiti (singular: graffito; the plural is used as a mass noun) is writing or drawings scribbled, scratched, or sprayed illicitly on a wall or other surface in a public place(wikipedia)..
so these are paintings not graffito..
That doesn't make much sense lowbeam? Nobody has called it "graffito", and it quiet clearly states in your wikipedia quote that graffiti can be sprayed
on a wall or other surface in a public place

Which is exactly what these painting are.

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lowbeam says...
10:11pm Wed 8 Aug 12

Graffiti..singular..
one..
Graffito..plural..mo
re than one..

Painting..singular..
one..
Paintings..plural..m
ore than one..
Seems education has gone downhill since the 60's..

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ShunGokuSatsu says...
1:54pm Thu 9 Aug 12

And Merriam-Webster defines grafitto as "an inscription or drawing made on some public surface", with no mention of legality. And these images are categorically, unarguably legal - paintings commissioned by the NRM and hung up around their property.

Can we please stop arguing about this now? Is this farcicle issue of legality seriously what we're going to talk about? Not that local artists have been given an opportunity to showcase work at a nationally-recognise
d institution, or that they're encouraging local children in creative endeavours? The name "Grafitti Kings" doesn't inherently mean these people are out tagging walls all day, any more than local creative network The Yorkshire Mafia spend their time breaking debtor's thumbs. And it can be safely assumed that, if they're conducting mural workshops with children, it'll have been required for them to state explicitly that painting walls without permission is very much Not OK.

I'm not super impressed with the actual paintings displayed in this article, but I'm considerably less impressed with the calibre of the commentary.

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