The esplanade car park underpass has been white washed, turning once more into a bland and sterile concrete tunnel adjoining a large car park to the main road. For sometime the underpass attracted the attention of local graffiti artists who in turn transformed industrial concrete into something far greater.
Through the application of spray-paint we could see a vibrant and growing subculture of graffiti in Jersey, the beauty of the underpass was the fact that it was not in the public eye, it served no purpose other then adjoining a car park to a main road. The artwork there was not simple vandalism, crude and degenerate tags but actual graffiti Art, ranging from murals, throw ups and stencil pieces, for a moment it would seem that art in Jersey extended beyond the gallery space and into the public domain, the fact that the states had not moved in and white washed the underpass from the very first tag was an amazement.
So will there be a resurface of graffiti art? Well it is tempting, once again there is a blank canvas, this area is unofficially a canvas now, and by white washing a wall the states have simply presented the graffiti artist with a new challenge and a chance to exhibit new pieces…
