Free Art Friday Newquay
Free Art Friday is not an original concept; there are many artists across the world making art and leaving it out on the street.
We first came across it through My Dog Sighs, a uk artist who shared our love of street art & a reluctance (scaredy-catness?) to commit graffiti. There is even a group as close to us as Truro, but we thought that for our local arts festival, Art8 2014, we would like to bring FAF to Newquay... Art8 seemed like a highly appropriate tie-in, especially with the change to a long weekend which made the first day of the festival a Friday... ‘Anyone & everyone
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Taking the art... ...is problematic, “almost an act of situationist art itself.” Once taken, is the work coveted or thrown away? How do people respond when faced with something that is completely free? ‘How do people respond
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