Eiresol Style – Irish Graffiti Art

Some flicks from the recent Foes exhibition in Dundalk.

This Friday from 6-10pm in Twisted Pepper. Maser and Bodytonic are proud to present the work of Dundalk-based graffiti artists Kube and Omin. Painting commercially and as a passionate hobby, Kube and Omin have been painting the countries walls for the past 13 years, bringing graffiti art to their hometown and nationwide, as well as being established on the international scene.

Using a wide range of media, including spray painted canvas, acrylic and oil paintings and photographic pieces to fully showcase the vibrancy, movement and technical skill that comes with this very new and rapidly moving art form.

Kube and Omin have painted for a vast array of major companies, brands, festivals and arts organisations. Working commercially doing commissions and brand promotion the pair have been submitting their artwork to internationally circulated magazines for the past 10 years, gaining them work overseas aswell as representing the Irish Graffiti art scene on an worldwide platform.

Graffiti art by its very nature is something that the public see and admire but yet mystery surrounds the rhyme and reason to why and how it is done. Since its beginings in the 70’s, Graffiti art has been a voice for young artists to display their talents on a public stage without reward, whilst risking prosecution in some cases to express themselves.

Using such a wide range of mediums – Kube and Omin hope to visually demonstrate the essence of Graffiti art through their own styles and skills. From sketches used on past murals, to photographs of walls, to graffiti art on canvas – all facets of the artform will be displayed and will give a visual narrative to their 13 years of non-stop graffiti art exploits.

This is the first show of its kind to be held in Twisted Pepper basement and promises to be one of most animated and interesting uses of the space to date. Kube and Omin will be displaying original pieces for this show in addition to painting some of the gallery walls and creating a more unique atmosphere to the space

Basement Gallery, Dundalk
November 5th – 30th 2009

Tonight from 7pm in All-City Records, Crow St., Temple Bar

Launching this Thursday 5th Feb, Monster Truck Gallery & Studios on Francis Street hosts an exhibition of new work by Dublin-based illustrator Brian Coldrick, in his highly-anticipated first solo show.

You may already be familiar with his work from the telly or other commercial work like the Eye on Dublin series for Totally Dublin magazine.

“Shrunken Head”
at Monster Truck Gallery & Studio, 73 Francis St, Dublin 8
Thursday 6th February – Tuesday 17th February

Opening night: Thursday 5th February 6-8pm

Candy Collective got 70 creatives (who the fuck came up with that term) to do cover versions of their favourite album covers.

Here’s a few done by Risto, Jor and Mase.
ESG – South Bronx Story

E.S.T. – Seven Days Of Falling

Maser?

Nice to see the likes of EINE and CEPT will be visiting our shores next week, for the Stella Dore exhibiton which is doing the rounds. Hopefully they’ll escape the trendy hangers-on and do a spot of painting while they’re over.

The launch of an exhibition tomorrow, running from 15th to 20th May. All welcome…

Monster Truck Gallery & Studios is pleased to host this years end of year print exhibition by the students of the National College of Art and Design second year Fine Art Print Making. The 2007 show was one of our favorite events of the year at Monser Truck, and we are again looking forward to discovering some of the fresh talent that is being fostered so nearby to us on Thomas Street.

This year, the students are presenting an eclectic show consisting of a wide variety of mediums and methods, including lithography, etching, silk screen printing and digital media.

Participating Artists: Anneke Blennerhassett, Chloe Brennan, Lindi Campbell-Clause, Siobhan Cox, Donal Deery , Luke Deignan, Darren Healy, David Lunney, Ann-Marie Lynch, Anja Mahler, Vera McEvoy, Ben Mulligan, Clare O’Connor, Samantha Ratanarat, Michelle Russell, Conor Vella

Date: Thursday 15th May 2008
Time: 6:00pm – 8:00pm

Monster Truck Gallery & Studios
73 Francis St, Dublin 8.

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