10 Foot
Graffiti writer
10 Foot is the tag of a pseudonymous London-based graffiti writer. He has been described by the Financial Times as the city's most prolific, and one of the most productive globally.
Legal issues
On 18 November 2010, 10 Foot was convicted of being guilty of 25 counts of criminal damage totalling up to an estimated £113,000. He was subsequently jailed for 24 months, and handed a 5-year ASBO.
Tagging
Many 10 Foot tags notably appear in central London, alongside famous landmarks. 10 Foot is known for tagging locations which are difficult to access. Despite his notoriety in London, his work is also known to be in 53 cities worldwide.
10 Foot guest edited the 17 March 2025 issue of The Big Issue.
“10 Foot” enters the record as graffiti writer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Foot, Graffiti and writer can confirm, complicate or overturn.
Why this record matters
“10 Foot” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Foot, Graffiti and writer provides the most credible route into that argument.
Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 5, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q137723353. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010 and 2025.
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This entry incorporates text from “10 Foot” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.