Eiresol Style – Irish Graffiti Art

Conor Harrington took a load of flicks down in Cork and posted them on his blog.
Click the image to see his post.

Some flicks from the recent Foes exhibition in Dundalk.

Some good videos over on Babelgum

Conor Harrington

Space Invader

Sweet Toof

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

If you haven’t heard of them, the “Beautiful Losers”, they are a bunch of great artist fom all over the United States, but mostly from California, that sprouted up from the skate and D.I.Y. scene in the late 90’s. Barry McGee, Chris Johanson, Margaret Kilgallen, Thomas Campbell, Geoff McFetridge and Mike Mills are just a few of the artist interviewed.

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Found on SafeCoolOk

Just Writing My Name

Some flicks I found recently on Worries Outernational. A lot of nice stuff there from mid nineties on I haven’t seen in ages including trains and tracksides.