East Ended : Dougie Wallace

Graffiti now appears in galleries and museums worldwide. Artists who were once hoodied, hidden and nocturnal are out in the open, working in broad daylight from cherry-picker platforms. Commissioned by corporate brands such as Adidas and Gucci they offer creative interventions into the urban landscape, images of coolness and affluence - in murals destined to become Instagrammable propaganda. In East Ended you see every code of cool fashion and attitude, alongside scenes of poverty and people on the streets trading in anything but the cool. Gentrification has brought a numbing sameness. Yet look carefully and you'll spot the cheeky protest posters - political critique to climate change resistance - purposefully plastered over and defacing the ads. The voice of the streets is reclaiming its walls.
Recognised as one of the UK's leading photographers Dougie Wallace has successfully published five previous books. He has been the subject of a 30 minute BBC documentary as part of the series What Do Artists Do All Day and has exhibited widely in Europe, the United States and India.

Author: Dougie Wallace, Paul Lowe
Published: January 20,2020
ISBN: 9781911306603
£ 35.00
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East Ended : Dougie Wallace