Paul Heaton’s photos of Hull’s graffiti on show

51 minutes ago By Pritti Mistry, BBC News Paul Heaton Paul Heaton Previously unreleased photos of Hull’s burgeoning street artists taken by singer Paul Heaton during the 1980s are among the artwork on show celebrating four decades of the city’s graffiti art scene. The exhibition at Humber Street Gallery features the work of 20 artists including Pinky and Graham Dews, known by his tag name Paris, who has designed for Coldplay, Glastonbury Festival and the London Olympics. It also includes 15 images taken by former Housemartins and Beautiful South singer Heaton, when he lived near Grafton Street, close to one of the graffiti locations. Pinky said seeing Heaton’s photographs of him and his peers taken 40 years ago for the first time was “just incredible”. “In the early 80s we had a couple of places that we used to hang out – there was a whole group of us teenagers. “One of the main places we used to hang out was a little park on Alexandra Road, which is known as TAG Park and we used to paint on there. Paul Heaton had a house [nearby] on Grafton Street so we used to know him a little bit.” Pinky, who...