Article 74MS3 Writing on the wall: Art UK digitises thousands of murals as street artworks go mainstream

Writing on the wall: Art UK digitises thousands of murals as street artworks go mainstream

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Mark Brown
from World news | The Guardian on (#74MS3)

From medieval church wall paintings to Liam Gallagher's viral X post, charity has catalogued more than 6,600 pieces

Some of the UK's smallest public murals are on bollards in Shrewsbury while one of the biggest is on a 1960s 16-storey block of flats in Gosport.

Perhaps the funniest though is in Cardiff. Ahead of last summer's Oasis concerts it was a straightforward copy of Liam Gallagher's viral post on X declaring: Because Cardiff is the bollox."

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