Gutters to galleries: selling out or survival strategy?

With street art moving into the mainstream, we wonder if the spirit of defiance hasn't been exorcised.
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Her hair is an eruption of spray-painted squiggles. The shadow of exoticness creeps across her face, the secret of her origin secure behind black lips. A streak of white binds her eyes, which are substituted with a scrawl of graffiti – a tag. Except it’s not a tag, it’s the same name etched onto the gallery window.

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