Street Art Insights

Street art emerges as a new creative sector across the world, putting cities on the map as a destination for art lovers to admire murals.

The question of whether street art constitutes a new artistic movement and highbrow art remains contested among experts and critics in the art world.

When looking closely enough at where street art clusters, the data tells a surprisingly coherent story about human behaviour, potential for urban planning and local economic growth, as well as what draws creative energy to certain places.

As cities around the world are increasingly branding themselves as attractive tourist destinations and locations with high quality of living, there is also competition and a race to gain the best global talent and high-profile artists for the city’s streets and looks.

The perception of street art and graffiti both in the aesthetic and wider cultural sense has modified considerably over recent times. Yet the legal realities surrounding such works are often unclear.