Graffiti artists, like Banksy, were once considered as graffiti vandals, but now their work is sold by Sotheby's and Bonham's for hundreds of thousands of pounds. Graffiti is still illegal and continues to divide communities over where vandalism ends and art begins.
This documentary looks at the way the West's graffiti is developing from simple 'tagging' spray painted murals to stencil work, street installations, and pre-fab paper cut-outs, and how these changes in practice show that graffiti has started to have more in common with mainstream art than its rebellious origins. Bringing artists, taggers, council members and resident groups together the wider implications of graffiti are debated.
After all, with £100,000 of tax payers' money each year spent on removing the tags from the streets, is it art or vandalism?
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