The Graffiti Hotline website have the results of an interesting survey on how people see attempts to co-opt graffiti art as a way of controling illegal graffiti.
From my reading of their findings I thought that there isn’t that much public acceptance of mural art or the community art projects that try to work alongside young people who are interested in graffiti art.
However, as a journey the survey seems to have changed the outlook of the author of the report:
At the start of this survey I stated that after 15 years of combating graffiti I was biased and that my views placed me firmly in the ‘all graffiti is bad’ camp. To my surprise, after this piece of research, I now find myself in the ‘most graffiti is bad, but it could be good’ camp.
I have been amazed at what some can achieve with a spray can. It seems that by allowing time to create a piece of work then the quality of the finished work increases dramatically.
(via Cllr Bob Piper)
