Knowra Street art Street art Street art is visual art made in public spaces, often outside conventional galleries and sometimes without official permission. It includes murals, stencils, posters, and other forms tied to their surroundings.
Graffiti : Writing or drawing made on surfaces in public view, often using stylized lettering. Graffiti lettering and street art overlap, though they differ in aims and traditions.
Cornbread : A Philadelphia graffiti writer credited with helping popularize modern tagging in the late 1960s. His name-writing campaigns helped establish graffiti as a visible urban practice.
Banksy : An anonymous British artist known for satirical stencils and interventions in public space. His anonymity and widely circulated works shape debates about street art and authorship.
Muralism : The practice and movement of creating murals, often with social, political, or civic aims. Street art can use muralism to turn walls into large-scale public statements.
Vandalism : Intentional damage to or defacement of property. Unauthorized street art is often treated as vandalism, though its artistic status is contested.
Stencil graffiti : Images or text made by applying paint through a cut-out template. Stencils let artists repeat intricate images quickly across public surfaces.
Taki 183 : A New York graffiti writer whose 1971 appearance in The New York Times drew attention to subway tagging. The newspaper profile brought New York graffiti into wider public view.
Shepard Fairey : An American artist who created the OBEY campaign and Barack Obama's 2008 HOPE poster. His work links street art, political imagery, design, and mass circulation.
Community mural : A mural created through collaboration between artists and members of a local community. Collaborative murals use public art to express local identity and shared concerns.
Public space : An area generally open or accessible to the public, such as a street, square, or park. Street art makes visible competing claims over who may alter shared spaces.
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