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GRAFFITI IN HUDDERSFIELD
By: Yue Li u1770358
Original Walls
After Change
Original Walls
After Change
1. Introduction
According to Kirklees (2007), ''Huddersfield is a manufacturing town, despite the university is the largest employer. Historically the town produced woollen textiles. This area of business, along with the chemical and engineering industries that emerged to support the manufacture of textiles, was the basis of the town's nineteenth and early twentieth-century prosperity''.
People cannot seem to see any large area of colour in the streets in this old town, and people living here can't seem to feel the art. So graffiti in somewhere of Huddersfield's would give the old town an unimaginably artistic atmosphere. The purpose of the graffiti in Huddersfield is to make it interesting and add fun to people as they walk around the town.
2. Graffiti on John William Street, Huddersfield.
This street is one of the main roads to enter the town centre. A large number of people through this subway every day, so the quality of the paintings should be very high. In order to avoid mistakes, the painting should be strictly in accordance with the pre-planning scheme. Since there is the largest vacant surface wall in Huddersfield town centre, the painting would be difficult, it will require Kirklees council to provide support on large tools such as a mobile crane with a platform, ladders and so on.
3. Graffiti on New Street, Huddersfield.
The graffiti on the high street in the town centre will be completely integrated into people's lives, because there are a large number of various types of shops and people living in the high street and the surrounding area, the graffiti will be closer to their life, so some personalized and interesting lifestyle graffiti will be a wise choice.
4. The future development of Graffiti in Huddersfield.
With the growth of youth consumption culture, graffiti has found new expression space outside the street. Many graffiti designers' designs appear on clothes, sports shoes and other goods. For example, sports brands will organize graffiti contests or performance activities to promote their products. Some graffiti creators have gone on to become professional artists, from the streets to art galleries, collectors' walls and paper. The history can be traced back to the 1970s when New York galleries began to hold graffiti art exhibitions. By 1980, graffiti entered the art market system on a large scale, and more and more artists' creations were transferred to outdoor walls, streets and corners. This means that urban graffiti has become a mainstream art style existing in cities.
Most of the graffiti creator is not artists and art students, most of them are young people who want to express themselves in scattered through the streets to paint and create, but because of the existing graffiti is almost zero in Huddersfield, so the graffiti activity invited local artists and art students to create as a sample of graffiti, eventually people will see a perfect graffiti creation in Huddersfield. It is believed that with this graffiti activity, more and more people who live in Huddersfield will be engaged in street art creation in the near future, making every corner of Huddersfield full of fun.
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