Above: A sticker in Dublin highlighting the contemporary HIV epidemic and our centre spread featuring a graphic by Will St Leger. It’s become a bit of rabble tradition to use the middle of our little parish newsletter for the disgruntled to showcase a particular artist we admire. When discussing ideas for #rabble14, we were stunned with statistics about HIV today. Hence, bringing Will St Leger in as our centrespreadista with … Read More
Moore On That Banksy Piece.
Last night the net was awash with rumors and pictures of what looked like a Banksy piece on Moore St. Freda Mullin Hughes popped down and sent us in this: “I went up to photograph the “Banksy” piece on Moore Street on my lunch break today and met Nurse Elizabeth O’Farrell’s grand-niece Donna so I asked her to pose with a picture of Elizabeth who has been too often airbrushed … Read More
Stencil Tiger.
. ADW is one of our favorite Dublin based street artists. His presentation at one of the last Come Here To Me events in the Sugar Club saw him outline a messer’s methodology of street level agit-prop intervention that has nailed it repeatedly over the years. We featured him way back in #rabble5 as one of our centre spreadistas. You might recall a wee incident with the Nardai at the Kings … Read More
#rabbleReels: The Art and Crimes of Ron English.
If you’re glued to your couch and looking for something to chew over that’s not going to numb your brain. Then this is for you. It’s a documentary about Ron English, he’s a billboard hi-jacker and a pioneer of subvertising as art pranksterism. Full of crazy anecdotes and punchy anti-corporate bish bosh. Head over to the Network Awesome website for more deadly ideas along these lines. Bored and looking for something … Read More
We Live In Limerick.
Some sci-fi referencing subversives struck in Limerick city earlier in the week. Unused Adshel boxes were taken over to beam out a series of posters using imagery nodding to the 1980’s classic b-movie They Live. Paul Tarpey sent us the above batch of photographs and reported that: “Some neglected adshells in Limerick recieved a high end make over referencing the film They Live for a consumerist commentary on public space. The … Read More
Flashback To The All City Jam.
Here’s a video shot and edited by Mark Verling that captures some of the art work at the recent All City Jam. The soundtrack features a track from Midnight Eez, a Bronx crew that got a release on All City with a very odd back story all of their own. The Tivoli grounds look set to serve up another summer session over the August Bank Holiday weekend with the Dublin … Read More
Back In The Day.
Interested in the origins of hip hop culture, fashion and street photography? Then this is for you. As a young man, Jamel Shabazz documented the street style immortalized in early hip hop. His website is chockerblock with vintage shots of Brooklyn hood life. It’s a bit slow loading, but worth a look. Talking about the sort of folk he put on film, Fab Five Freddy said: These were the heroes, these … Read More
Dublin Represent.
Regular enough Youtube videos on Dublin street art talent. First up is sticker bomber Kill. You can’t not have seen these stickers. Catch that clip with the tiny easel.
[A Quickie With] Evolve Urban Art
You might have noticed the growing number of painted shutters around the capital, many the work of Evolve Urban Art’s growing roster of artists. Killian Redmond sat down with Evolve’s Ene Keenan for a bit of a chat. Evolve Urban Art has been running since January 2013. What made you set it up? It’s a simple idea. Connect people with artists, leading to positive art in a lot of places. … Read More
New Art Territory
Paul Tarpey examines how artists and activists are dealing with the idea of the non-place – a space with which we have all become unconsciously familiar. Pound shops, petrol stations and piss-stinking out-of-town shopping centres. This is the sprawl of the post-apocalypse we call ‘after the Tiger’. The unplanned, the undesigned is our new state. We no longer blink as we pass ghost estates and cow-shit stained forecourts. These non-places … Read More