Scrawl Too: More Dirt

The second volume of Scrawl, the Booth-Clibborn survey that in 1999 first gathered the artists who had come up through graffiti, comics and club flyers and were reshaping commercial graphics from outside the design profession.

More Dirt widens the field geographically, with work from Vancouver, Osaka, Rio de Janeiro, Melbourne and the European cities of the first book, and follows each artist across surfaces: record sleeves, self-published zines, painted walls, canvases and screen work. The editors frame the material as public art of the early twenty-first century, drawing on graffiti's rebellion and tribal identity, the hand-drawn revival in comics, and the rhythms of hip-hop and beat-based music. Roughly 176 unpaginated pages, illustrated in colour throughout, paperback, published in London in 2001. Phil Ashcroft and the other Scrawl Collective artists who went on to paint live at Tate Modern's Turbine Hall appear here early in their careers.

Ric Blackshaw ran the Scrawl Collective and the associated gallery projects; Liz Farrelly is a design writer and editor whose Booth-Clibborn titles documented British graphic subcultures through the 1990s and 2000s.