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.
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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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Wexford’s Up & Coming Tinkicker 4 March 2011
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Tinkicker has been actively painting since the first Cans Festival in 2008. ‘If it wasn’t for me old man I wouldn’t be painting today. He got me into graffiti and even helped me lay down me first street stencils’.
Tinkicker told us his major influences were Banksy and Eelus. In fact, the Wexford based artist was fortunate enough to meet Eelus when he was just starting off. ‘On my adventures to Bristol I also met some associates of the infamous Banksy and they shared their amazing stories of the Bristol legend’. Meeting these ‘top dogs’ pushed him to pursue the life of a professional vandal. ‘I realised how you could use graffiti as a weapon for the people, as a spokesman for the underdogs’.
‘I’ll always paint. I think you need something to keep you sane in this mad world but if my work makes someone laugh or smile or even cry then I’m doing my job right.’
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ADW – Step Up to The Plate 24 January 2011
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ADW was another Irish street artist who has had quite a successful year in 2010 with his first solo exhibition relieving rave reviews and his work featuring in a number of Irish publications. In this time-lapse footage ADW pieces together ‘Step up to the Plate’ in the ‘Good Food Gallery’, where the Dublin based artist held a mini solo exhibition in October 2010. To keep up to date with ADW in 2011 visit ADWart.com
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The Expansive Fink 17 January 2011
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2010 was a very busy year for Fink and the Dublin based artist tells us he is “looking forward to a more visually prosperous year ahead” Below is a pick of his work in the last year, for more of the same visit Fink on Flickr.
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Matthew Knight – Beautiful Monsters 13 January 2011
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Belfast‘s Matthew Knight, is starting to make a name for himself lately with shows in Amsterdam and Dublin. His work can be found on an array of surfaces from the streets to abandoned buildings. The Ballygowan native paints characters and designs filled with crazy amounts of detail and patterns.
Knight grew up in Pakistan and this had a huge impact on him, ‘I experienced one hell of a crazy and wonderful upbringing. The influence that country had on me has never diminished.’ He explains how the troubles also were a real eye opener when he returned to Belfast. ‘The first I learned of the Troubles or any religious background that I had was on the flight over 2 hours before my plane landed. I was so used to Eastern culture that Western culture has always felt quite alien to me. So I draw from all those experiences putting that into each and every character I create.’
‘I like my grey backgrounds as it reflects how dull the backgrounds can be compared to the characters in them where I concentrate all the colour. As my style developes you can expect alot more detail to come. Dots, patterns,collections,collage 2D and 3D elements will continue to feature more and more as I go.’
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Puzzle: Kieran Herlihy 14 December 2010
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Kieran Herlihy aka Puzzle is an Irish Fine Artist/ Illustrator. His work has been described as a disjointed biography. Taking inspiration from daily encounters as well as manipulated text from conversations and observations, he combines these with text and images acquired and inspired from various sources that fill his daily existence. Largely inspired by comic books, graphic novels, music and literature as well as both the significant and mundane moments of everyday life.
Puzzle’s work will be on display in ‘True Colours’, a group exhibition at the The Rag Factory, 16 Heneage Street (Off Brick Lane) in London this Thursday, December 16 from 6:00pm – 9:00pm.
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