{"id":615794,"date":"2025-12-06T11:07:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615794\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T11:07:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T11:07:10","slug":"the-world-of-art-remains-unresponsive-to-londons-expansive-graffiti-scene-say-artists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/615794\/","title":{"rendered":"The world of art remains unresponsive to London&#8217;s expansive graffiti scene, say artists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>London has a vibrant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.swlondoner.co.uk\/tag\/legal-graffiti\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">graffiti<\/a> culture and with spaces like the Leake street arches in Waterloo offering an alternative to the often illegal counterpart, the future of street art in London seems bright.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But according to graffiti writers in the capital, London\u2019s art scene remains unresponsive.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And the only solo artist exhibition in the UK to date is Banksy in Bristol.<\/p>\n<p>Graffiti has grown into a huge commercial <a href=\"https:\/\/krink.com\/collections\/paint-markers?srsltid=AfmBOorBdn5GnMuB34kfbo90-pxVCsTNIFAZuafYUfhXuDJ56AWHgeas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">enterprise<\/a>, with many supporters across the capital, but institutions still seem set on traditional art mediums.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Remi Rough is a graffiti artist from Dulwich. He is part of the Ikoniklast movement, started by Juice-126 in 1989, which opened the first outdoor paint space in Europe.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rough feels spaces like Leake street are incredibly important for experimentation and for street art to be taken seriously. <\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cAttitudes have completely changed since around 2009, when I was asked to talk at the Tate as part of the street art exhibition they had.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut sadly that momentum hasn\u2019t continued.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Artists point to the significant cultural impact that guerrilla art has had, being the only art form created and taken forward by children.<\/p>\n<p>For Moshpit, a young graffiti artist from north London, it\u2019s about creative output, not crime.<\/p>\n<p>He feels as though some struggle to see tagging for what it is.<\/p>\n<p>Moshpit said: \u201cI think it\u2019s hard for some people to understand when they look at art and then look at graffiti.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Featured image credit: Joshua Brown<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"London has a vibrant graffiti culture and with spaces like the Leake street arches in Waterloo offering an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":615795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[2606,748,393,191884,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-615794","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-art","9":"tag-britain","10":"tag-england","11":"tag-grafitti","12":"tag-great-britain","13":"tag-london","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115672307949755662","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/615795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}