Street art and graffiti are viewed as two separated entities. Street art involves methods such as stenciling, paste-ups and murals. Graffiti, in particular tagging, is illegal, but street art has found its place in Australian culture.
An interesting article to check out is "Graffiti or Street Art? Negotiating the Moral Geographies of the Creative City", published in volume 34, issue 2 of the Journal of Urban Affairs, by Cameron Mcauliffe. It examines the shift that graffiti has made into street art. The article details things such as public art policies, which include things such as legal graffiti walls, which are put in place to encourage the community to use these walls to express themselves without defacing public property.
"In the wars on graffiti the moral battleground of the city has moved on, with the embrace of the transformative (and economically significant) capacity of creativity heralding a new era of zones of toleration, of legal graffiti walls, and street art galleries. One of the main issues of contention has been the continual pronouncements that it is good to have public art but bad to have graffiti. The rise of street art has gone some way to unsettling this dichotomy, opening possibilities to reappraise the moral geographies of creative practice in public space." - Mcauliffe, 2012
Moving forward, I believe that documenting street art is more important than ever. There are some incredibly unique artworks, and photographing an art form that is ultimately temporary is instrumental in preserving this culture.
An interesting article to check out is "Graffiti or Street Art? Negotiating the Moral Geographies of the Creative City", published in volume 34, issue 2 of the Journal of Urban Affairs, by Cameron Mcauliffe. It examines the shift that graffiti has made into street art. The article details things such as public art policies, which include things such as legal graffiti walls, which are put in place to encourage the community to use these walls to express themselves without defacing public property.
"In the wars on graffiti the moral battleground of the city has moved on, with the embrace of the transformative (and economically significant) capacity of creativity heralding a new era of zones of toleration, of legal graffiti walls, and street art galleries. One of the main issues of contention has been the continual pronouncements that it is good to have public art but bad to have graffiti. The rise of street art has gone some way to unsettling this dichotomy, opening possibilities to reappraise the moral geographies of creative practice in public space." - Mcauliffe, 2012
Moving forward, I believe that documenting street art is more important than ever. There are some incredibly unique artworks, and photographing an art form that is ultimately temporary is instrumental in preserving this culture.
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