These surfaces are of profound scientific, cultural, heritage, environmental, and aesthetic importance. Unfortunately, they are threatened - by graffiti.
From coronavirus to climate change and the Black Lives Matter movement, street artists expressed their views on the walls and in the parks and laneways of Australia in 2020.
Volunteers helped city workers paint ‘Black Lives Matter’ on the street near the White House.
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Washington, DC Mayor Muriel Bowser ordered ‘BLACK LIVES MATTER’ to be painted on a street near the White House. The act would have been considered vandalism had it not been done by city workers.
‘Super Nurse!’ painted as an ‘ode’ to all healthcare professionals around the world.
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Forced into selling his own merchandise to stop others doing the same, the artist could end up facing other similar challenges because he trademarks rather than copyrights his artworks.
Graffiti bullheads carved on the temple walls.
RTI: Suzanne Davis and Janelle Batkin-Hall/IKAP, 2016
You’re as free to write anything in the sky as you are to post it on the internet, provided you have a plane, or a pilot willing to relay your message.