A WORLD-renowned graffiti artist who has spray-painted at the Vatican inspired students at a Bradford school with a demonstration of his street art.

Mohammed ‘Aerosol’ Ali showed year nine pupils at Oasis Academy Lister Park what can be achieved with basic materials when he paid a visit to help them with a project.

A spokesman for the academy said: “Year nine students are starting a graffiti project and Mohammed ‘Aerosol’ Ali has really shown them what can be achieved with a hand-cut stencil and a can of spray-paint.”

One pupil said: “I was blown away! He has really inspired me.”

Mohammed has been melding together street art and Islamic script and patterns for the past ten years, challenging the term ‘clash of civilisations’.

He describes his work as "taking the best of both worlds and bringing back to the forefront principles that are fading away from our modern societies", and "breathing a bit of life and colour into the concrete jungles that we exist in".

He has created murals in New York, Chicago, Toronto, Melbourne and Dubai, among other places worldwide.

Mohammed was drawn into the graffiti world in the early 1980s, after being inspired by the subway art movement. After studying multi-media design at university, he went into the computer games industry as a graphic designer, before embarking on a career as a graffiti artist.