Mullaney on Graffiti

2007 August 29
by Pete Ashton

While there’s something wonderfully incongruous and almost comical about watching Moseley Councilor Martin Mullaney give a mini lecture on the origins and aesthetics of graffiti art he does, through his “war on tagging”, know a fair bit about the local scene. In this video, about the Selly Oak pocket park, he talks about The Gifted Few and The Lost Generation crews.

Martin’s line is that you can have graffiti art without the blight of tagging, which I would be skeptical about, but if you’re ignorant of and curious about Birmingham’s graffiti art scene this is as good an intro as any.

Using this info a quick bit of Googling found me Hoakser who does stuff like this:

hoakser_graffiti.jpg

and whose MySpace links to loads of other TGF / TLG folks.

For more graffiti, with no distinction made between “art” and “not art”, check out the Birmingham Graffiti and Street Art pool on Flickr

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86 Responses
  1. 2008 December 16

    graffiti is da bomb :)

  2. 2008 December 19
    kgen09 permalink

    graffiti is the bomb its not a crime its cool

  3. 2008 December 21
    trent permalink

    dame that is fucking tight as hell me u fuck good

  4. 2008 December 27

    hey you guys and gurls r a imsparation you guys got some real tallent and if you could look me up on myspace that would be great im 16 and i love some tipps so plzz thank you

  5. 2008 December 29

    haha this guy knows everything, new york, wild style, did i mention new york?

    to be fair to him hes trying to make a point n seems like a nice guy but he hasnt got a fucking clue.

  6. 2009 January 1
    Syla permalink

    ZAJEBISTE :D

  7. 2009 January 2
    andryz kepleko permalink

    art never dead

  8. 2009 January 19
    Syalala permalink

    aJiiib !!! keren cUy tapi gUe bisa biKin kaya lO tu

  9. 2009 January 21
    rasec-em-tedk permalink

    that shit is bad but i think my style is way better just try harder and keep on graffing…….. graffiti is a crime cmonn guys just keep up the good work peace to taggers fuck bangers teqnitions evaluating domestic kareers

  10. 2009 January 30
    $zuza$ permalink

    yu have a a lot of good graffits

  11. 2009 February 11

    bagus

  12. 2009 February 18
    axel permalink

    solo te kiero desir ke te pasaste de verga

  13. 2009 February 18
    jenn permalink

    sick as tags!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  14. 2009 March 13
    GUSTI permalink

    PERFECT

  15. 2009 March 16
    jordan permalink

    these shits are sick yo! lets go party and look so smarty! lets go compare notebooks. Davinci started on note books. ooh did i mension Davinci started on note books? ya so did I. You guys are hott hope to see more art from you guys. keep it real Jordan

  16. 2009 March 18
    michael permalink

    THIS GUY IS A FUCKING IDIOT. TAGGING IS ART AND WITHOUT IT THOSE BEAUTIFUL PEICES WULD HAVE NEVER DEVELOPED. THIS GUY PISSES ME OFF SO MUCH. AND IF U THINK IT IS AN EYE SOAR THEN DONT FUCKING LOOK AT IT. I HATE A CRITIC. THIS GUY NEEDS TO GET A FUCKING HOBBY AND STOP ACTING LIKE HE KNOWS THE HISTORY OF GRAFFITI WHEN HE DOESNT KNOW SHIT!!!!!!!!!

  17. 2009 March 18

    @Michael

    Could you speak up? I didn’t quite catch that.

    Thanks.

  18. 2009 March 18

    DaM ThAt ShIt iS TiGhT It lOok LikE WuN Of mInEs in Da StEad

  19. 2009 March 19

    cho em xin chu Mai Hoang Dza

  20. 2009 March 19

    Hoang Dza

  21. 2009 March 21
    Memo permalink

    Papi esto ta muy ranqueao.les dejo un saludo pa todos desde chile ~§GOLDFLOWRECORDS§~

  22. 2009 March 22

    Hey, graffiti is life style, you know, they´r colours from your minds!
    Have a fun!
    Dr.

  23. 2009 March 26
    Giorgia Rozalino permalink

    eu gostei muito de conhecer
    o que e graffiti

  24. 2009 March 27
    promium permalink

    i’ll love 2 c more n more of this kind a stuff.

  25. 2009 March 31

    ihhh,,,,serrrru abiiezzzzZz

  26. 2009 March 31
    fatmags permalink

    graffiti is not crime but the bomb

  27. 2009 April 3
    Jay permalink

    Min ma sus pact Bal lee lar !!MA aye looooo!!!

  28. 2009 April 3
    esense permalink

    im an up and comming G-artist and shit like that just seem imporsible to me. its like the Mikel Engelo of our day. and its not a crime deffinetly.

  29. 2009 April 19

    ya dont no me but i go by azer artkru

  30. 2009 April 19

    yo ma name iz geeek from ank wns artkru

  31. 2009 April 19

    graf is not a bad things we ask to the people for what to survivor

  32. 2009 April 30
    lil bill permalink

    that is one ov the best iv seen in a long time keep it up m8u am cool

  33. 2009 May 25
    Kams onek permalink

    Diz kams one from Visiual Terror IM new to dis site.Ima drop sum sick arte

  34. 2009 May 25
    Kams onek permalink

    Shout out to all da piecers frm da RgV SOUTH TEXAS

  35. 2009 June 2
    k.k.k. permalink

    dis is a great pic! lol it looks cool ‘nd lush graffiti!lol
    amazin ‘nd nice ritin at da bottom of da pic lol…
    at least der id no colord people… no afence bt it wuld look wird wiv a mixture of differant scin colors! (lol?) …soz if it afended u lol

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