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The work of a convicted graffiti gang is being exhibited at a New York art gallery this week – but many of the artists will be unable to witness it because they are behind bars.
Members of the DPM crew were sentenced earlier this month for tagging and painting trains and stations across southwest London, resulting in a £1m clean-up operation for the rail networks.
However, the group is being hailed as artists across the pond with the opening of a new exhibition.
Titled DPM – Exhibit A, the exhibition in trendy Soho, New York, will display pictures of the crew’s work along with copies of their charge sheets, questioning whether the young men are criminals or artists.
Battersea’s Andrew Gillman, the 25-year-old “ringleader” of DPM, was jailed for two years.
Read more here……..Grafitti – art or vandalism? (From Croydon Guardian)
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