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street art and graffiti has become more mainstream in media be it in a positive and or negative way.

‘Teenagers are ruining this country’. I’m sure this is a thought a lot of you pension have thought but that's not the case. Street art, graffiti and the youth of east London. These subjects have become entwined over the past years which a lot of you may not like. Young people today have become more interested in fine art because of graffiti and with the increased popularity of street art and music artists like rudimental are using the Dalston Peace Carnival Mural in hackney in east London have shown a light on graffiti in a good way. Rudimental are not the only people that the youth of east London are watching and taking inspiration from artists like Cartrian who is a local resident to the east London borough of Leytonstone.

Street art and graffiti has been around for a long time. Teenagers from this generations and past generation have use graffiti as a way of expressing themselves. Some may say that graffiti is bad as it ruins the aesthetic of many areas in east London. Some may also say it makes the areas look trashy and or poorer because of that. The youth of east London may disagree with these statements. As many know youth clubs in East London have been closing for many years now. This leaves the youth of East London to their own devices as people who were in Youth clubs before close said it did keep them out of trouble. Since there is no other way for the youth of East London to express them self-many say that graffiti and street art is needed although it didn’t look very nice.                                  

Famous music Artists like rudimental use graffiti and street art in a positive light unlike the way it's betrayed in the media. Rudimental used the Dalston Peace Carnival Mural in hackney in east London for their album cover for their first album called Home. The use of street art on a album cover not only show how Times are changing and because of that street art and graffiti is now shown as acceptable album cover art it also shows people that the rudimental are born and breed in hackney and where is no better way of showing that other they showing something that has been a part of history in hackney since the 1980’s. Action like these are the reasons why graffiti and street art have been shown in a positive light over the past years. This just shows how graffiti sure be done, in a place where people approve and with great artist how know what they are doing.

“Street art is visual art created in public locations, usually unsanctioned artwork executed outside of the context of traditional art venues. The term gained popularity during the graffiti art boom of the early 1980s and continues to be applied to subsequent incarnations.” Be it good or bad, graffiti and street are here to stay if people like it or not graffiti is a way of expressing yourself and if we were to continue to charge minors for minor crimes like graffiti and street art they we are a community would continue to ruin hundreds of teenagers lives for years with criminal records and the only crimes that they committed was the crime of expression. Graffiti may not always look the best but we are have to agree that you would not like to see your grandson or granddaughter in jail for a petty crime like spray painting something. So when you call for harsher penalty on minors who do graffiti think about your little grandchild being jail. I’m sure that will change you opinion of the matter.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Street_art