Artists inspired to create works about the war in Ukraine say it’s a “powerful tool” to get people thinking.
Street artist Steve ‘Jenks’ Jenkins said he felt he couldn’t do many thousands of miles in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire, but ‘putting a little paint on a wall might show support’.
“It’s a great way to get messages across to people,” he said.
“And you can take something in the blink of an eye and it makes you think and awakens things in you.
“It’s a powerful tool to use.”
Pop artist Nathan Wyburn, of Ebbw Vale, said: “Art not only documents time, it can also help convey a message, sometimes, that words cannot.”
Art historian Joanna Burke, of Birkbeck, University of London, said artists “have a powerful medium of communication, far more powerful than news broadcasts”.
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