Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Street Art
Hello to Haringay community members.... I hope everyone had a good week?
I am looking to interact with some comrades of the community in the hope of embarking on a social project, which will bring more fantastic work to the area. I have lived in Turnpike Lane for four years and after what was a short burst of pieces by the station but it would be great to expand this. I have for the past few years been interacting with artists helping to organise wall space in East London, while I worked for an art gallery. I would love to try and organise some spaces here in Haringay and feel this would be a good start in reaching out to the community.
I have watched street art spread from East London and find large new areas in places like Penge, Camden and Dulwich. In these projects the communities have been heavily involved with helping to supply wall spaces or by supplying unwanted house paint. If anyone knows of any walls that are in need of some TLC or if anyone would like to help out then please let me know. I regularly am asked by great artists for spaces and it would be great if I could organise some paintings in the area I live.
Thanks,
Ryan
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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on
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Is it sufficient to cherry-pick some examples beautiful street art by talented artists as if that concludes the issue.
Will the pro-graffiti people acknowledge and discuss the real and potential downsides?
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Permalink Reply by EMC2 on
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Ok Alan, I took a walk around today to see how some local examples of beautiful street art by talented artists are faring:
They're holding up quite well. IMHO these are a tonic for the soul. There's also this:
...which might make you feel a bit like this:
but I guess beauty is in the eye of the beholder - on me travels along West Green Road today I thought these second hand tyres were rather lovely
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I also came across this-
Not sure what to make of it Alan, what do you think?
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More wandering about this morning I came across this-
Art or vandalism?
And then I came across this outrageous grafitti-
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So EMC2 where's the legal framework? Or ethical framework?
What's not permissable? If anything?
What seems to be emerging from your walk of beauty is enormous hubris about who has the right to claim semi-permanent control of public spaces.
In your artistic philosophy, who gets a say in how their street or neighbourhood or city is painted, sprayed, billboarded, tagged?
Can I come into your house and doodle with a can on your walls?
Can I come into your street and spray on pavements and roadways and walls?
I can assure you strongly that I am a fantastically talented artist in the true meaning of that word (fantasy). So what I say is art is very definitely art. Beautiful art. As beautiful as an upside-down urinal or a bicycle wheel. You might have seen my sculpture near Turnpike Lane Station.
Well, I didn't actually do the work. But then which sculptor does these days? It's all made in China or somewhere else isn't it. But I took a photo. Which proves it's art.
Who says it isn't? The Art Police?
You ask what I make of your stroll? I go with Bernard Shaw's variation on the Golden Rule. (Or at least Rabbi Hillel's Silver Rule.) Don't paint shit on your neighbour's street wall. Their taste may not be the same.
By the way did you enjoy the quiet elegance of the brilliant Capital Homes artwork? I think it should be put in a bullet-proof glass case and guarded at the expense of the Council Taxpayers.
After all that was a demand made by the people who claimed to have removed the Wood Green Banksy.
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Alan, I don't disagree with most of your points. But I think there is a place for work such as the Turnpike Lane Fox for instance. The original poster was looking to engage with the community which I think is commendable. Haven't seen the Capital Homes artwork you refer to, have you a link?
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Permalink Reply by Ryan holmes on
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Capital Homes link? It was proudly recorded in one of your own photos.
Good Grief! Don't you stop and LOOK at beautful art?
Savour it. Roll it round your refined aesthetic palate before swallowing the burnished hype.
Of course, it's very important to smell the lettings agency as well. I'm getting apples. With banana notes. Also currants. This may be from the nearby greengrocers.
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Sorry I got distracted by the beautiful fox. My refined aesthetic palate? You must be mistaking me for someone else
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Permalink Reply by Justin Guest on
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Ryan. I messaged you the other day, did you get my connection request. I have a space you might be interested in.
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