We’ve made it easier to connect artworks and tell the stories of our city walls! You can now link artworks together in the dashboard, with new tags for “Related artworks” and “Previously on this wall.” This means you can show the journey of an artwork or a wall, helping everyone explore the history and connections in our street art scene.
This update comes after feedback from our community, especially around linking artworks to places and creating timelines for walls. We hope it makes discovering street art stories even more fun and meaningful!
The tags editor will show artworks you’ve added and artworks in the same city at the top of the results.
Once this is getting used more, we can improve how it’s shown visually to visitors. If you have suggestions on the editing experience of adding this tag to artworks/places, please let me know
@thomas I Love this feature , for connecting the history of pieces on a wall it is spot on
Just for clarity, my understanding for the linking places is that I should go into the tags for the place and add all the artworks in the spot under the related artworks tag….
Also think this is a great step. Will this be a way of improving the groupings of artworks on the SAC map in the future? (In my experiments so far the markers for the individual pieces still stay where they are even if they are tagged as related to the place marker)
One small tweak (but just my opinion), it would be good if the related artwork details showed title and artist. In some places the current title only view will show untitled, untitled, untitled, and actually the artist might be more helpful to distinguish these pieces (example below)
Edit: One other possible improvement would be to make the tag bi-lateral, so that when you create a new artwork and add a related artwork tag of a place, the place is automatically updated with the new piece in its related artwork tags. Would make it easier for hunters to keep the tags up to date in the places.
On the other two items (bi-lateral and grouping), those are definitely great ideas for things we can do in the future, but I want to see a bit more of how people will apply these tags before further extending the functionality.
What is the “best practice” or recommended usage for the "“Previously on this wall.” tag?
I assume to just put the previous mural on the artwork (ie just one), to create a backwards chain? Or is the intent to put all previous artworks on the tag?
I’d probably just put the one previous artwork in there – if we create a timeline view in the future, that would be sufficient for us to still get the entire chain of previous artworks.
Not crucial - I think you could just establish the sequence of what has been on the wall by following the chain of previous artworks. Of course dates would be great for added detail though.
So, I have been playing with the previously on this wall tag in a few cities and have found that the further back in time you go the less the artworks have a created date (not sure if this data field existed back in 2017 era SAC).
What I would really love to be able to do, is search on the artwork tab of the Hunter dashboard for the artworks that don’t have a creation date, but I can’t find a way to do this currently.
If it’s not to difficult to add that filter I would happily go through and add as many dates as possible so that any future timeline features can be maximised.
Currently I can only add the creation date to the historic artworks missing the data as and when I stumble on them (in smaller cities it’s no biggie to check all pieces listed, but in big cities approaching 1000+ pieces, a quick filter / search here would really help)
Still loving this feature though and looking forward to the timeline upgrades
The easiest way to do this at the moment is to sort by time created, as these will all show up as created on January 1st, 1970 (the ‘0’ date for the particular format we store dates in):
I like these two new tags. I have begun using them, and will use them on walls that get repainted. I will use the “Related artworks” tag to create the “forward” link, ie on the “replaced” mural create a link to the new mural.
, for connecting the history of pieces on a wall it is spot on 
