Graffiti Palace

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As a hub for creativity, it’s no surprise Manchester is a leader on the UK street art scene. Many pieces here have been created by out-of-towners with worldwide reputations. Some, however, are the work of local artists. Just when I thought this council coudn't get any worse: silly me! this won't be the last time money is wasted, the only way to stop it in the future is to VOTE them out at the next election. The problem then is, will the next lot be any better? I think not. We can only hope. Wander inside now during opening hours and you’ll soon spy a World Guiness plaque on the wall, declaring this vine (official name: Vitis vinifera) is well and truly certified as the oldest vine in the world. Pete Fowler: Welsh artist Pete Fowler, who is perhaps best known for his artwork for the Super Furry Animals and his Monsterism toys and goods, created the below work as a performance piece during our celebrations of the 50 th anniversary of the 1967 Summer of Love. People who attended the event were able to watch Pete in between talks and film screenings. It took 10 hours in total to complete and is now part of our collections. As Monk travels through the streets of South Central LA, he orients himself by gang tags and more intricate and mysterious graffiti symbols towards home. But the cops and the gangs are after the notebook where Monk records the city's graffiti, and which might just be the key to the secret tides of power ebbing below the surface of the city...

Carleen is one of a host of artists we work with each year as part of our Creative Learning programme which aims to inspire and educate people through art and culture. An electrifying new voice in American fiction. A. G. Lombardo's wildly entertaining debut reimagines the 1965 Watts Riots as an Homeric journey through rioting cops, burning streets, CIA conspiracies and the potentially fatal semiotics of race and oppression in America. Along the way, we also run into Godzilla, Elijah Muhammad, the greatest taggers in the history of Los Angeles freeway art and a deadly fortune cookie war. Graffiti Palace is a stunning arrival, easily the most exciting book of the year.”

It’s a family affair. My dad was a Palace fan, my uncles, all of my family, really. It’s got personal connections. For me, football’s about supporting your local team. It’s always been my team and always will be. Salford has something that no other place in Greater Manchester has – a Graffiti Palace, where artists from all over the region come to produce stunning works of graffiti art in an ever changing outdoor gallery. The language + prose flows through this book as smooth as a graffitist’s tag on a piece. I love books that open my eyes to worlds seldom captured by the media. The subject and characters are based on real people, incidents, and yes, gangs, that were very much prevalent in South Central LA in the 60’s. Keep your phone close to you as you read it, you will (underline) want to Google stuff. At it’s heart this story is about Monk. Monk studies the graffiti art of Watts and records everything in his notebook/journal. In the midst of a foray into the field to record some new throw-ups the Watts Riots break out around him. Monk’s journey home to his girlfriend Karmann meanders through the social unrest and introduces some incredibly surreal characters and stories.

What an audacious debut: a novel that reframes The Odyssey as a journey across Los Angeles during the Watts Riots. Beautiful, hard-edged, challenging, and unexpected, Graffiti Palace recalls the linguistic exuberance of Thomas Pynchon while evoking the surreal landscape of a city under siege. At the same time, it never loses sight of the essential human drama—the desire, despite (or because of) everything that’s happening, to find a passage home."Case– Andreas von Chrzanowski is a German artist who explores movement through art, often creating murals of hands Acclaimed street artist Carleen De Sozer is currently working in the park to create new signage to help people with social distancing (she needs your help, see Make Your Mark). Graffiti Palace is stunning—a blend of Joe Ide‘s IQ detective novels, Thomas Pynchon, Jonathan Lethem’s Chronic City, and Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84.” — Chicago Review of Books A voodoo queen who calls herself Mab and tells him “all signs hold power” and about the runic “secret language waged in a battle for the nation itself . . . [in a war] still being fought out in tonight’s burning streets.”

Salford has 7 new coronavirus cases, down from the previous day's 14, while the seven day rate per 100,000 population now stands at 30.1, down from 30.9. There have been no new virus-related deaths announced by Salford Royal Hospital. Who?” Karmann’s looking for a way to escape, hoping one of the girls will saunter over and take her arm. The chant may have lost its popularity somewhat by early 2020 and, by summer, wouldn’t have been heard on Selhurst’s terraces for over four months.on graffiti removal, wow iv seen this wall and that is ART not vandalism its not scruffy little tags it is done by artists with real talent dont take the piss and spend that money on a real cause Here, Guy Griffiths, now living in 'sunny' north Wales and one of the main inspirations for the Salford Star's creation, writes the second part his own personal view of the Government project that devastated communities throughout Central Salford. We did some really good work in Croydon over the years, man... actually, on this particular project, one of the kids I used to work with who’d get in trouble a lot with the police came up to me and said: ‘Wow, I haven’t seen you for years. You really inspired me and I’m an artist myself now.’ That was amazing. Monk does finally make it home to the harbor, but only after the solving of a puzzle that creates a map he can use to get there. Finally nearing the harbor on a south-bound bus, he contemplates the web of messages that covers the city.