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Since lockdown began last March, the UK has undergone a revolution in its public spaces. With city centres deserted and galleries closed, artists have used urban walls as their canvases, producing a new generation of political street art.
While street art has traditionally been the scourge of local authorities, much of it is now being either embraced by councils seeking to preserve artworks, or commissioned by companies and community groups to brighten up neighbourhoods.
Around the UK, artists have produced everything from political commentary to tributes to NHS workers and local heroes. Captain Sir Tom Moore is popular up and down the country, most notably in Tamworth, Belfast and Southport. Other work – such as the Rebel Bear piece in Glasgow, which shows a couple pulling down their masks for a snog – document the everyday peculiarities of life in a pandemic.