This Means Nothing – Belfast 15 May 2012
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Fresh from his exhibition titled ‘Rented Spaces‘, ‘This Means Nothing‘ told IrishStreetArt.com of his most recent project. Rented Spaces was held in an unused coffee shop on Royal Avenue in Belfast. It was part of the open source project which aims to breath new life into empty retail units in Belfast through supporting the arts. ‘I was delighted to exhibit in a space of this nature rather than a traditional gallery setting.’
This Means Nothing has been living in Belfast for the past five years and his work represents his views on urban living ranging from the complex and disorderly nature of cities to the social and economic divisions within the metropolis. ‘I use paste-ups when working on the streets and use stencils when I have more time (permission) to paint.’
This Means Nothing will be painting at ‘Titanic Lock Down‘ on the 1st and 2nd of June at T13 in Belfast, as well as at Whitewash 6 in July. These are must not miss events for fans of Irish Street Art. To keep up to date with This Means Nothing follow his blog or facebook page.
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Friz – Sometimes Sassy, Sometimes Sensuous 21 March 2012
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Friz is a Belfast based artist who works in both traditional and digital mediums. Her work is influenced by the study of classical animation. Friz is part of the SPOOM Collective, a group of artists who frequently collaborate on large-scale murals. Friz’s work largely revolves around the female form, creating a world of sometimes sassy, sometimes sensuous characters.
She has been invited as a guest artist to paint at such events as ‘Eurocultured’ in Manchester , ‘Smithfield Festival’ in Dublin, ‘N.P.L.D.’ Festival in Sligo and the ‘BASE Festival’ in Belfast.
Her works have been included in group exhibitions in both Belfast, Sligo and Dublin. In 2010 she was a member of the Dublin team competing in the Secret Wars Euro-League, the world’s premier live art battle involving 17 cities from around Europe. More recently her work has been showing as part of the ‘Tags not Labels’ exhibition in the Ulster Museum, which just finished up at the end of february. ‘A shot of my artwork from that show is on the current Northern Irish tourism board tv ad.’
She also just painted at the WhiteWash V live painting event alongside ADW, DMC, Visual Waste, SBK Fox, Matthew Knight, Chris Cunningham, Lee Boyd and BAG
She told IrishStreetArt.com ‘Once I have a character out of my head and down on a bit of paper, or on a wall or canvas, I’ve already started thinking about what I want to draw next, usually some form of fun, female character. I like using acrylic and spray paints for the same reason, they’re super quick to work with and you can get immediate results.’
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C215 in Dublin 12 March 2012
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Acclaimed Parisian street artist, C215 left his unmistakable mark on the streets of Dublin last week. Christian Guémy tells us “I try to interact with context, so I place in the streets elements and characters that belong especially to the streets. I like to show things and people that society aims at keeping hidden: homeless people, smokers, street kids for example”
His work is showing in the Offset Space exhibition in Little Green Street Gallery in the capital until friday.
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NOTA – None Of The Above 6 March 2012
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IrishStreetArt.com recently caught up with Belfast‘s Nota, who told us of how he became a street artist. Forced to leave school at a young age, Nota grew up as part of the local punk scene passing the days drawing and tagging. He eventually moved on to painting characters and simple pieces. ‘I haven’t done so much work with lettering or typography, but these days that is what I’m mainly interested in.’
Along with past personal experiences, Nota takes alot of inspiration from the punk and straight edge ethos. -Being true to yourself is the only thing that counts! F*ck the rest.
For more visit manchini.co.uk nota86.blogspot.com
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Conor Harrington – Black Herds Of The Rain 13 February 2012
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Black Herds of The Rain is a film documenting Conor Harrington‘s trip home to Ireland in the summer of 2011 to paint 3 walls. The journey and subsequent paintings are inspired by Austin Clarke’s poem The Lost Heifer.
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DMC 31 August 2011
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Fresh from painting in Dublin, Belfast street artist Dermot McConaghy told IrishStreetArt.com “I painted Her Redundant Heart for the Roadworks theme of ‘Terrible Beauty’ (Art, Crisis, Change & the Office of Non-Compliance).” Roadworks has been curated by ANEWSPACE and Dublin Contemporary and is currently taking place Dublin.
“I am currently painting a series of ‘MissedCall Girls’. This is an ongoing series of heartbroken females who are downcast by the unfortunate unanswered call. Heartbroken from a call that may have changed things, a call that meant so much, a call that was missed.”
The work above,’Her Redundant Heart’ for ‘Roadworks’, was taken on St Andrews Lane, Dublin. Below is a collection of some of DMC‘s work to date.
For more visit manchini.co.uk
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Solus 13 May 2011
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Dublin based street artist, Solus, has recieved notoriety, not only for his work in Ireland, but also in London, Bristol, Spain, New York and Amsterdam.
At the moment Solus is preparing to paint at ‘Upfest’ in Bristol this June. ‘I also plan to paint a lot in Dublin and where ever else I go… Im always trying to come up with new ideas’s and trying to improve my technique. I’m currently working on tonnes of new stuff, so you can expect to see lots of my work in the near future. Its exciting – im excited…’
Solus tells us his bio would go something like this: Enjoys painting, getting tattooed, old-time music, coffee, punk, South Korea, collecting art, hustling, loose lips sink ships, staring longingly into burning fires while weeping openly.
For more of the same visit Solus on Facebook
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Limerick’s Gritty Shoote 061 13 April 2011
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IrishStreetArt.com hooked up with Shoote 061, an artist who is really starting to make a mark on the Irish scene. The Limerick native told us the story of his journey to date.
‘I’ve always enjoyed art, reckon I came out of the womb holding a 6b pencil. Through out my younger years it was always a strong point. At about thirteen I started getting interested in street art, lured by the rattles and hiss of spray cans, I quickly got the bug and I’ve been infected ever since. When I first started painting there was no graff shop in Limerick, so acquiring paint meant ventures to the big smoke or make do with what I had. So household paints any kinda of paint really was used. Tagging was what I had a feel for at the beginning still today is what gets me buzzing the most. Eventually I had a l’il encounter with the ole 5-O l’il slap on the wrist really, they had my mother rang before I was even on the bus home. Thankfully this didn’t put too much of a stop to my plans thanks to fairly lenient parents who thought “Sure ya could have been doing a lot worse”. ‘
‘I was getting more serious about art around then and I decided to get a portfolio together and go for Art college. I was succesful, thankfully, and it has to be the best decision Ive made in my life. In college I started to run in to the people who got me interested in graff. Baqs and Gek” were the first tags I saw around Limerick. I’d never met them in person so when I did get the chance to meet them I was delighted!! Things really just unfolded from there… then ventures out at night, local jams, tagging like a mo fo, stickers, wheat paste and so on. The Limerick scene is going from strength to strength just after a great local jam on Paddy’s day organised by Cato and Mal went down really well.’
‘At the moment im focusing on how to bring my street art into my college work. I’m doing printmaking so really this discipline is fine tuned for street art really and there is endless possibilities with combining the two. Currently, me and two friends have started a collective producing work with the printing press, cans, markers, everything really and using the city as our gallery. There’s a visual infiltration occurring and hopefully we’ll get to show y’all some more work soon!!’
Shout out to everyone keeping the sráideanna alive!
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Ali-P 1 April 2011
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Ali-P is a visual artist from Lisburn. Graduating from Belfast Art College in 2006 with a degree in Design for Visual Communication, she has been working hard on various artistic projects ever since….
Her work tends to be bright, bold, colourful and very graphic. ‘I enjoy mixing spontaneous, organic elements with graphic and geometric patterns often inspired by nature. My subject matter ranges from graphic landscapes and strong females to crazy cartoon characters… My current work has a more conceptual approach and incorporates the belief that, as energy we are all connected – humans, animals, nature and the space in between….’
Ali-P told us ‘I like my work to create a positive ambience which transcends to the viewer’
‘I feel that there is enough negativity in the world so I find painting, drawing and creating positive imagery to be very therapeutic for myself, and hopefully others too.’
Ali-P‘s eclectic range of influences irange from other street artists to illustrive children’s books like Roger Hargreaves’ Mr Men books, to artists such as Gustav Klimt, Escher, Dali as well as many design companies such as Rinzen and The Designers Republic.
For more of Ali-P‘s work visit Ali-P.com
ADW on Lá Fhéile Pádraig 16 March 2011
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ADW is celebrating this year’s St. Patricks Festival with this vibrant piece, ‘Napping On The Job’ on Andrews Lane in Dublin. Here is a collection of some of the stencil artist’s latest work.
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