Sunday, 13 June 2010












The gallery can be approached either form the north or south ends of King Street and provides equal level of access due to its centralized plan.


Graffiti art is not limited in terms of drawing media, message, meaning, context or place. Even though originating from the streets as a means of rebellion against certain events, or just as a way of expressing ones views, elaborated works created in a controlled environment (the artist not working under the threat of being arrested, attacked or whatsoever, considering the illegal nature of graffiti)
can be equally impressive as some classical drawings in terms of intricacy, detail and feeling.

Black Conran
Above; Mixed media on wood
'Product brother can you spare a dime' ; mixed media on canvas
Black Le Rat; 'Product man who walks through walls';

Banksy - stencil; Israel.


The following images show how an old warehouse is turned into a graffiti art gallery, without extracting the works into sterile rooms, but preserving the urban context they were created for and on.

The atrium of one of the buildings in Jubilee Campus, University of Nottingham, UK exploits the idea of creating an inner street, a gathering place, protected from the elements, but still giving the feeling of being outside, of openness and space.


Steven Holl's Nanjing Museum was inspirational for me in terms of lightness and structure. It blurs the boundary between outside and inside through its fabric and slenderness, yet providing shelter.