Irish art, graffiti, street art and murals

South Docks – oil on canvas – 40x80cm

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Jor and Thomas

This is a wall I painted with Thomas from Germany. I painted the potato plant. Thomas painted and wrote the words.

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Interior Design & Art Fair

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I will have some new paintings showing with the Jonathan Swift Gallery at the Interior Design & Art Fair at the RDS, Dublin. Other artists represented by the Jonathan Swift Gallery include Colin Martin and Louis de Brocquy and Imogen Stuart.

Dates: Friday 13- Sunday 15 May.
Venue: Hall 1
Opening Hours:
Fri: 11am – 9pm
Sat: 11am – 7pm
Sun: 11am – 6pm

Gurriers – Block T – Good Friday

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This Friday, 22 April “Gurriers, A Photo Exhibition of Ireland’s most renowned graffiti artists” is on in Block T, Smithfield, Dublin 7.
18:00-22:00 BYOB Adm €5

Block T is a great new art space in Dublin that featured a solo show by Maser in 2010. “Gurriers” promises to be a great show. It will feature such Irish writers as Rask, Cisto, Goner, Jor, Elsi, Dats, Jack, TDA, SBC. This event is co-organized by All City Records and is part of their 10 year anniversary graffiti jam at the same weekend in the Tivoli Theatre in Francis Street, Dublin 8, which will feature Revok of MSK, California.

Upstart Poster Campaign

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UpStart is a non-profit arts collective which aims to put creativity at the centre of public consciousness during the Irish General Election Campaign in 2011. We plan to do this by reinterpreting the spaces commonly used for displaying election campaign posters in Dublin City.

The objectives of UpStart are to encourage a debate on the role of the arts in this state. Our aim is to highlight the importance of creativity and ingenuity when society is in need of direction and solutions, and to emphasize the value of the arts to public life.

We believe that the future development of the country requires a healthy cultivation of the Arts.UpStart comprises artists and writers from Ireland and abroad and are non-aligned to any political party. UpStart respects and follows Dublin City Council litter regulations and operates within the requirements of Irish law.” Upstart website.

Above is one of my images I submitted to the upstart campaign.

Old Graffiti Pieces

Below are some photos of old graffiti pieces I recently found.

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The Small Print Review 2010

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Thank you to The Small Print Blog for featuring me in their 2010 review. It features some thoughts on 2010 from different Irish Artists.It also features Bren B, Eoghan Kidney, Richard Gilligan, Chloe Early, Conor Harrington and Maser. Its possible to view it here at issuu, and to download from The Small Print.

Tralee Community Nursing Unit

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This is a project I just finished and was working on for nearly three months. It is a series of twenty six doorway murals in Tralee Community Nursing Unit, Co. Kerry, in the west of Ireland. It was commissioned as part of the Per Cent for Arts Scheme. All of the images were painted in acrylic.

Sugarloaf Mountain, Wicklow

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Cherrylane Fine Arts Winter Show

This Sunday (5th December) I will be exhibiting three paintings in Cherrylane Fine Arts Gallery winter show.They will host an afternoon of art, music, mince pies and mulled wine. The Cherrylane Fine Arts Gallery Winter Show at 3:30pm Sunday, 5th December 2010 (weather forecast is clear for Sunday). There will also be a private performance from the acclaimed Irish Singer/Songwriter Lisa O’Neill.

The collection will feature works by gallery artists including:
FRANCIS MATTHEWS, ANDREW HOOD, FRANCIS O’TOOLE, ROBERT RYAN, DAVID BEGLEY, MICHAEL WANN, JACKIE MITCHELL,MAIGHREAD TOBIN, CATHERINE BARRON, YANNY PETTERS, RUTHLOCKHART, JOANNA KIDNEY, JEAN CLYNE, CHRIS ATKINS, LEO HIGGINS, RADEK ROLA RULSKI, PETER PEARSON, MARIA LEVINGE, RAYMOND HOSTY AND MORE…