Graffiti

Graffiti is everywhere in  Britain – on park benches, street signs and bus shelters, in car parks and train stations.

Cleaning up graffiti costs millions of pounds a year and some people have put graffiti together with drugs and criminal behaviour as “bad symptoms” of modern society.

Graffiti is the second common type of property vandalism  in the UK.

Graffiti appeared in 1985.

Graffiti is now so popular it can be seen in many museums and art galleries.

Instead of dismissing graffiti as vandalism, we need to “legalize” graffiti by funding giant murals in prominent inner-city sites.

Many people want to see graffiti walls, which are set up and run as ongoing-projects, for artists to exhibit their work.

Companies often use graffiti imagery to promote things to young people. 

So, graffiti walls are needed and, if they are going to mean anything, they need to be in prominent places.