It's a Stick-Up

DALE GRIMSHAW

THE CITY CHANGES SO QUICKLY, LIKE AN OVERFLOWING BUCKET. SAME GOES FOR THE ART ON ITS STREETS – IT ARRIVES, GETS MODIFIED, DISAPPEARS OR SURVIVES. THEN, SOMETHING ELSE MAY REPLACE IT AS TIME MEANDERS BY.

The majority of Dale Grimshaw’s paste-ups are in London, a city he has always loved and where he moved from northern England to study art. His fascination with street art dates back to his primary school and Grimshaw links it to his obsession with writing his name everywhere. The use of paste-ups came as a natural amalgamation of two passions: punk gigs and woodcut art. ‘I used to put punk gigs on, so I would make and paste up posters to promote these events,’ he recalls. Wheat paste is the most congenial technique to Grimshaw’s ...