The UK's heroes are no longer being honoured in marble on a plinth but with a spray can on a brick wall.
The UK's heroes are no longer being honoured in marble on a plinth but with spray paint on a brick wall. Stephen Smith explores what's behind this artistic revolution.
Kane is one of a rapidly growing number of sports personalities and other celebrities seen at epic scale on murals in the backstreets of our cities and towns. Soccer fans once collected trading cards depicting their favourites; now they can gather and swap Instagram images which depict them as big as houses.
Nash, better known on the streets by his nom de can Gnasher, was a graffiti artist when still at school. "But it was all illegal back in the Eighties. Now you go into Tate Modern and you find graffiti is on the timeline of modern art," he says. Historically murals have been about the common man and woman re-owning the street, he says. "You see this with murals about the Troubles in Northern Ireland, without a doubt. They're polemic and political at the same time. Football is the vernacular game. The fans who go and support their team in all weathers are reclaiming the street with these murals.
It's not only the beautiful game that's being celebrated. Manchester United star Marcus Rashford and Liverpool's Jordan Henderson have been recognised for their activism over school meals and NHS fundraising respectively. A collective of street artists was assembled and they've been to many parts of the country to immortalise heroes in paint and brick.
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