BRIGHTON GRAFFITI

01/04/10

October 22nd 2009 Onwards

22 Kensington Gardens Brighton < SPECS >

The exhibition of work you see at SPECS is a series of photographic prints made
from photographs taken in June 2009. Each print is a cropped and recomposed
image which lifts and re-represents the original street graffiti.
It transforms it into condensed high resolution images of the Street art , often
resulting in totally different visual perceptions of the original compositions .

The prints in some way present a tribute to the colourful and extraordinary art work
of the “graffiti crews”, whose work is often wrongly confused with other random
irresponsible “paint vandalism”.

The intent of this photographic re-representation is to properly record, celebrate
and confirm the staggering creativity of the crews and portray their work in a
much more consumable manner.

The print work featured, originates from three crews [ Heavy Artillery, 101 Crew & Rarekind ]
and is some of the very best you can see in Brighton, often lost or painted over.
Each of the crews and individual members operate on an international basis with
significant street status and worldwide reputations.

The print exhibits are a smaller
selection of many more images available for view at the online exhibition gallery.

Copies of the Exhibition pieces are available for sale.