Street Craft: Guerrilla Gardening / Yarnbombing / Light Graffiti Street Sculpture / and More
Author: Riikka Kuittinen
Format: Hardback, 175mm x 220mm, 870g, 224 pages
Published: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015
Surprising, controversial and often simply beautiful, street craft is the next chapter in the story of street art - an explosion of creativity that is reclaiming and transforming urban space around the world.
Featuring:
* Tasha Lewis's blue butterfly swarms bring beauty to derelict corners of New York.
* Spidertag intertwines sturdy rope and nails to construct abstract graffiti in Madrid.
* Mademoiselle Maurice's origami and lace graffiti bring a light touch to the streets of Paris and Hong Kong and many more.
Riikka Kuittinen is a freelance curator and writer. A contributing writer to the online journal Photomonitor, she curated the V&A show 'Street Art: Contemporary Prints' (2010-12), which toured the UK, with a version shown in Libya. She is the author of Street Art: Contemporary Prints, and contributed to Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, Modernism 1914-1939: Designing a New World and 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die.
Author: Riikka Kuittinen
Format: Hardback, 175mm x 220mm, 870g, 224 pages
Published: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015
Surprising, controversial and often simply beautiful, street craft is the next chapter in the story of street art - an explosion of creativity that is reclaiming and transforming urban space around the world.
Featuring:
* Tasha Lewis's blue butterfly swarms bring beauty to derelict corners of New York.
* Spidertag intertwines sturdy rope and nails to construct abstract graffiti in Madrid.
* Mademoiselle Maurice's origami and lace graffiti bring a light touch to the streets of Paris and Hong Kong and many more.
Riikka Kuittinen is a freelance curator and writer. A contributing writer to the online journal Photomonitor, she curated the V&A show 'Street Art: Contemporary Prints' (2010-12), which toured the UK, with a version shown in Libya. She is the author of Street Art: Contemporary Prints, and contributed to Phaidon Archive of Graphic Design, Modernism 1914-1939: Designing a New World and 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die.