Who is behind the disgusting graffiti plaguing Barnsley?

Somebody must know who 'btd' is because the town is being ruined by this ******** or group of dickheads defacing every roadsigns, lamppost and wall between J36 and stairfoot roundabout.

 

those annoying blue painty face things are everywhere as well. On the subject of btd one of my customers said he knows who it is but won't shop him as its some of code they have with other graffiti 'artists'.

 

Then your mate is a ******** as well and is a shame on the town

 

Customer, not mate.

 

Just about to post the same

 

Sorry my bad. Your customer is a *********

 

There is that shop on Sheffield Rd that sells a huge range of spray paints. They must surely know who every graffiti ******** in Barnsley is.

 

Banksy?

 

If anybody knows who these scumsuckers are, report them, there's no art in it, just vandalism and getting a "tag" that becomes well known. Sad gits who bump up the council tax as it costs to get removed.
This "not grassing" thing gets me, they are scum and should be treated as such

Banksy?

Another idiot.

Whatever happened to respect for other people and other people's property?

Folk work hard and earn enough to get by in many instances, yet the dimbos can afford spray paint to deface whatever takes their fancy-but ooh please don't grass em up- makes my **** boil

 

Banksy the worlds most popular artist...

 

popular with who?

 

I wish Banksy would spray paint the side of my shed, I could do with paying my mortgage off

 

I agree in most cases the people who daub indiscriminate graffiti on walls or other structures are a real menace.
Having said that there are some who take their work quite seriously and class it as an art form.

In the mid 90's Youth workers in Wakefield got a group of these lads together. They had been in trouble for spraying
buildings, trains and anything else they could spray. They had thousands of pounds worth of aerosols donated by the cellulose Car paint manufacturers together with overalls and masks and they were allowed to graffiti the walls in some of the Cities Youth Centres as well as doing some of their work on large boards which they took round the Country to Youth graffiti exhibitions.

Some of the kids went on to become Youth workers themselves. I was based at Chesneys in Featherstone when a group
of them came together to create tiles depicting the industries in and around the area in clay with a Community artist. The tiles were then fired , glazed and then permanently mounted on a wall at the confluence of the main road leading into Wakefield and the one that takes you up into Fev and Post Office Road. Some of the kids got their Duke of Edinburgh Awards on the back of that project, so under supervised circumstances , using spray cans to create an artistic piece can be rewarding, but in the wrong hands, I totally agree it can become a real eyesore and sadly it's not a cheap process to get rid of it.

 

I live in Headingley.
When I had a white van it got "tagged" on a regular basis. In the end I had to leave the van as it was, as
I had 5 hours plus removing the f-ing stuff, only for it to be done again a few days later.
I love Banksy, Basquiat, etc The two things are unrelated.

 

How annoying are all those 'talk more' signs springing up everywhere? The only thing it's making me talk about more is what a mess it looks.

 

This obviously.

 

Recent survey showed him to be the most famous and best loved living artist.

 

Major difference between 'tagging and graffiti. THIS is graffiti. We took a picture of it in the coach par kin Castel Gandolfo near Rome. there were one or two others of similar quality.

 

That's beautiful.