Check out this great little video of MASER doing his thing for First Fortnight on Camden Street in early January. MASER – “U ARE ALIVE” – DUBLIN from eoin murphy on Vimeo. And don’t forget to check out the rest of the First Fortnight street art too. There’s a map of what’s where here.
Now in its third year, First Fortnight doesn’t need us to tell you how well thought out it is. Of all the oft-forgotten yet important social taboos to target, mental health is clearly still more essential during an economic near-apocalypse. Setting up in early January, a time that’s notoriously gig deficient, was a stroke of [...]
View First Fortnight Street Art. in a larger map Seven locations from the Camden St Simon shop down to the Quays side of Fitzsimons in Temple Bar: you could cycle by them all, in one nice downhill go. Then go and tell someone else to do the same. It’s out there, lets make the [...]
Jetting in from Italy to be a part of First Fortnight 2012, stunning Italian artist Lemeh42 created a beautiful wall drawing in The Exchange, Dublin. His work aimed to show the intimate aspect of the drawing act. It was a performance intended as a way to unveil what drawing really is, the purest expression of [...]
Just off Camden street beside the Simon Community shop there is a rather beautiful black tiled wall that must be there some time now, in an amazing turn of luck the good people at the charity said it could be used for a piece in conjunction with the FirstFortnight festival as long as it had [...]
Beginning to flourish now in Dublin ADW is becoming a household tag on the walls of the city but the work is smarter than the average signature that clutters up the walls driving locals beserk. If you intend to mark the walls say something that makes sense, make me think. ADW tries to do this [...]
John Saunders, Director of See Change, First Fortnight’s partners in helping challenge mental health stigma has written a fantastic piece for The Journal. Its title says it all — Mental illness isn’t abnormal — it’s part of being human. Read John’s column here. Come down to the free Soapbox Sessions event on Saturday to hear John, [...]
Where: The Button Factory When: Saturday January 14 – 2.30pm How much: FREE!!!! Ireland needs meaningful discussion on mental health. To start this conversation, we’ve gathered well-known voices from Irish cultural life to share their ideas and bring their personal interpretation of the subject to life through performance, prose, music and all important discussion. Hosted [...]
Choosing to remain completely faceless and unidentifiable, Canvaz is the artist in First Fortnight that we know the least about. He was thinking about the ballerina’s balloon being black initially as a black balloon is known to symbolise depression in dreams. Before he painted this piece in the middle of the night on New Year’s [...]
First Fortnight is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of John McCarthy, founder of Mad Pride Ireland and inspirational figure in the campaign to end prejudice and discrimination in mental health. Our thoughts are with John’s son Dave and all the family. “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change [...]
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