Banksy murals in Bristol 'need protection' says group
AN organisation protecting the architecture and design of British buildings has launched a campaign to save murals like Banksy’s in Bristol.
The Twentieth Century Society aims to raise awareness about the importance of murals and street art which they feel are under threat.
The organisation has applied for some murals across the UK to be protected by having them listed.
Henrietta Billings, conservation advisor at the Twentieth Century Society, said the recent example of a Banksy mural being removed in London and put up for auction highlights the necessity to protect the artwork.
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She said: “The latest example is extraordinary and has triggered a real debate about street art.
“Our campaign hopes to encourage more of a public discourse about the significance of street art work.
“Bansky’s work is crucial as it helps to get the debate going about the value of such art.”
The Society’s campaign also focuses on murals painted on public buildings like old schools, which are under threat of being pulled down.
One mural highlighted by the campaign is a red brick carving from 1919 on the Bristol Eye Hospital.
For more information visit www.c20society.org.uk/casework-campaigns/campaigns/murials/
6 Comments
by BedmoBanjo
Friday, March 08 2013, 1:39PM
“If ever I needed an indicator of the general tone of commentators on this site...
Yes lets please make sure all those derelict concrete cancer 50s built "anything'll do" office blocks are listed heritage sites and make sure all that international respected art gets washed off immediately. I love a good beige ruin me.
If I weren't so sure you're largely a collection of paranoid curtain twitching freaks I'd be really saddened at the state of Bristol's public opinion. Pitiful, tragic myopic little world you live in.
"Stupid Halal, bisexual polish grafitti. What's wrong with grey or brown hmmmm!?"”
by Spiggett
Thursday, March 07 2013, 1:53PM
“Like this:
http://tinyurl.com/buod7c6”
by Spiggett
Thursday, March 07 2013, 9:51AM
“More hypocrisy -cash value turns vandalism into Establishment Art...
The Twentieth Century Society should be saving Bristols Mid Century Modern Architecture that is being destroyed by such graffiti.”
by collegefields
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 10:25PM
“Absolute Rubbish.”
by bokkbokk
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 8:03PM
“Just paint over it.”
by BristolMark2
Tuesday, March 05 2013, 6:29PM
“I would encourage those supporting this view to read Banksy's own books (not just Wall and Piece, but the earlier unofficial ones too). You will note that Banksy has no problem whatsoever with his work being altered (or replaced entirely, in fact) and on at least one occasion in Bristol a new Banksy has been painted over a defaced previous one.
Changing/augmenting something else to make a social comment is pretty central to Banksy's work, so it's kind of ironic his own work might be "protected" from the same treatment.”