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Abandoned buildings on industrial sites including Stoneferry and Chapman Street areas, Ings shopping centre, housing estates, cycle paths, as well as various parks across the city are some of the locations captured in the exhibition called Live Like Legends.
Paris, who later moved to Bristol and has worked with Banksy, said the show, which includes past and new creations, revealed the conditions in which graffiti and street art was allowed to “flourish and bloom” in the post-World War Two and industrial city.
“There were so many abandoned buildings and derelict sites, we had so many wasteland playgrounds where we could do our art out of harm’s way. So there was never any confrontation with the law.
“I think what our art form did is flower in places where industry had died. So you had one industrial movement ending and a new creative art form took a foothold and grew.
“[At the time] it was something new and exciting, we all jumped on it. Incredibly, I wouldn’t believe that I’m now doing it in my late forties but I’ve made a life doing this. It’s helped a lot of us.”
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