Graffiti by the self-proclaimed “King of Kowloon”, who died in 2007 at the age of 85, used to be considered vandalism and was covered and painted over. Now a new generation of visual artists is taking inspiration from Tsang’s work.
Tourists caught defacing Rome’s Colosseum and a Japanese temple are nothing new – graffiti is as old as humanity, from cave art to the bawdy humour found in Pompeii to Hong Kong’s ‘King of Kowloon’.