Comments on: Cut From A Different Cloth

By: Jill

Jill — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 12:59:32 +0000

Not overly impressed at all, in fact rather a disappointment considering the level of the artists other collections.

By: Shona

Shona — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 20:55:30 +0000

So Eric Haze isn’t a graffiti artist then, either, xfrtizx? Because he developed and started producing his stuff on canvas?

Most, but not all, but most of the graffiti in Brum now consists of recycled interpretations of other graf artists. Very rarely is there anything special about it.

You don’t have to follow the crowd in everything you do because it’s been given a label. Temper didn’t. Neither did Haze. Don’t knock it unless you can show me something that will really knock me for six.

By: Jon Bounds

Jon Bounds — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:16:52 +0000

You’re right Dan, a sort of Thatcher-Davros. Thavros.

By: Dan Davies

Dan Davies — Wed, 07 Jul 2010 09:35:10 +0000

Oh, is that Vivienne Westwood then? I thought it was Thatcher! :-0

By: xfritzx

xfritzx — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 16:48:17 +0000

Banksy is NOT a graffiti artist. He does stencils, you know “street-art”. The mere fact that he uses spray-paint does not make his work graffiti. I suppose thats the point I was trying to get across.

By: lepkirk

lepkirk — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 09:46:53 +0000

Temper’s stuff has to be seen up close. If you get a chance to go to this exhibition, do it! :)

By: Wendy

Wendy — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 21:18:01 +0000

Who cares what it’s called, a very strange critique indeed when another of the biggest graffiti artists (Banksy) also has his work in galleries etc all over the world, presumably he isn’t entitled to call himself a graffiti artist either?

By: xfritzx

xfritzx — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 17:28:44 +0000

Just because you use spray-paint on a canvas, that doesnt necessarily make you a “graffiti artist”. In fact I would put money on the fact that Temper hasnt put up a real “piece” in years.

And even if he did use letters in his work, as soon as that enters a gallery, in my mind it ceases to be graffiti.