Glasgow’s street art has become a celebrated part of its urban landscape and a tourist draw.
Striking, massive in scale and prone to being demolished . . . Glasgow’s street art has become a celebrated part of its urban landcape and a tourist draw. Ann Wallace talked to one of its pioneers, Rogue One
“Murals like these have been around since the 70s and 80s. John Byrne did a lot, for example, and in places like Maryhill and Easterhouse you’d see them all the time,” says Bobby, who says he got into graffiti art “the classic way”.“Now you get people going to art school to do it, but when I was growing up, we were just tagging, looking for abandoned spaces and derelict buildings to spray paint,” he explains.
“People would come up to me and say: ‘Oh, you’re the guy that does the murals!’,” he adds, grinning. “I got asked to paint something for the student union and I was pretty taken back. I remember thinking: ‘Okay, I can get paid for doing this?’.” Rogue One’s work is now famous across the city, from his floating cab – ‘The World’s Most Economical Taxi’ – just off Argyle Street, and CR Mackintosh, above the Clutha and Victoria Bars on Stockwell Street, to the quirky riverscape A View from the Clyde, on the Broomielaw, featuring the aforementioned elephants and Daleks, which is one of Bobby’s favourites.
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