they're amazing nicfit, love the giant sam3's!

^^^great. especially the slug one!

Vhils' "scratching the surface" etc. stuff is lovely, pretty close to my tastes in a way...:

Escyf / escif is lovely too:

sratching things away is fresh. thumps up, haha

oh I like those last ones nicfit!

same.

who is nicfit?

That's gorgeous.

Locally, on the back of Banksy being somehow the most famous artist ever (he's from here) there's a load of council-sanctioned 'street art' that, while pleasant at times, has hacked off bits and bobs of the graf community. There is some good stuff, but I tend to think that it's more interesting in the local skate park, where the graf doesn't stay up for more than a month at best. Also, the kids in the skate park doing the graf don't tend to have degrees or the ability to fill in arts council applications, so there's a definite slant towards art that's not really representative of the local communities.

Also, there's a hell of a lot of well-meaning 'ooh, Disney/ McDonalds is capitalist' type stuff, the only good one of which is this one:

Nicfit, those scratchings are pretty amazing!

And Glice, Ron English is another one of those anti-captialist-anti-everything artist, with some pretty cool stuff:

Conor Harrington is my fave so far.