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As an aside, the Financial Times (yes, that one) did a great interview a couple of years ago with prolific London graff artist 10FOOT.

The comments were predictably howling with rage and injustice ("he's a criminal!!", says employee of cartel laundry HSBC), but I enjoyed it a lot.

He is indeed incredibly prolific, anyone taking a train around london will recognise 10FOOT.

But he is not an artist, he literally just tags 10Foot in what could be described as looking like it was done with a marker pen.

I enjoy good graffiti, but 10FOOT does not fall into that category.

Your link describes him as an author or writer, which is a kind of artist I guess. I'm not bothered about the nomenclature.

The articles describes him correctly as a writer, writer is the term graffiti artists refer to themselves and others as