Graffiti in Hong Kong

Similar to other countries however, graffiti is considered defacing public property and is technically an illegal act in Hong Kong.

[3] Graffiti is a term applied to a range of illegally created marks in which there has been an attempt to establish some sort of coherent composition that people could resonate with, or one that conveys messages.

Tsang Tsou Choi, also known as the "King of Kowloon", was the founder of Hong Kong calligraphy graffiti.

Ai Weiwei, a Chinese contemporary artist and activist, was arrested by Beijing authorities for "economic crimes" .

Ai's portrait was later painted on walls facing streets in Hong Kong by a teenage girl, who attempted to raise awareness of human rights and reveal the dark side of the Chinese government.

On 13 July 2009, a French graffiti artist named Zevs painted a Chanel logo on the outside wall of an Armani store in central Hong Kong.

Invader, another famous graffiti artist, has been spreading his work in Hong Kong since 2001; he has painted at least 74 mosaic print tiles on city streets.

The wall of fame in Mong Kok, in an alleyway linked to Argyle Street, provides a canvas for Hong Kong graffiti artists.

For instance, there was graffiti related to "real universal suffrage" being drawn in Admiralty during the Occupy Central protests in 2014.

They hoped to make common cause with Hong Kong citizens through graffiti art in order to gain more support for universal suffrage.

For example, protesters not only did chalk paint graffiti, but also created a mural made from thousands of Post-It notes with citizens' wishes written on each.