Graffiti

[redobit]

With all the excellent grafitti around the town at the moment, I was thinking:

The Church Hill boundary wall to the showgrounds has a portion of which is smooth render. It would be a perfect size banner for a bit of grafitti - just somthing simple like 'SRFC1928'.

Just a though as I drove by.

[Rovers1]

think this was already discussed on the Forza Rovers forum ???

[MMVIII]

think this was already discussed on the Forza Rovers forum ???

Yeah think it was, although that was to do with the back of the Jinks.

Wouldn't be a bad idea but doubt it would ever happen.

[Red Star]

think this was already discussed on the Forza Rovers forum ???

http://sligorovers.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=terrace&action=display&thread=345 ;)

[srfc1928]

http://www.sligochampion.ie/news/street-art-hits-the-wall-at-treacy-ave-1482318.html

In the first commission to use a wall along the public walkway from Tracey Avenue to Knappagh Road, Sligo Borough and County Council present the work of three acclaimed local artists, whose work is intricately linked to the urban environment.
Street at Tracey Avenue Walkway is currently taking place and is the first major public display of street art in Sligo.
The three artists, twin brothers Kevin and Paraic McGloughlin from Knocknarea Villas and Fergal MacFadden from the Old Bundoran Road have completed the VEC's PLC Course in Art and Design and Fergal has been accepted into the National College of Art and Design but their artwork has emerged out of many influences as varied as cutting edge film and animation to skateboarding and is indebted to street art traditions.
Street Art at Tracey Avenue brings to the fore an important aspect of current art practice and one that has influenced acclaimed artists including Picasso. Although the term street art has been used since the late Seventies, the work by its very nature, is in constant flux and hard to categorise. Broadly speaking the term has come to define the more visual and engaging urban art as opposed to text-based graffiti and tagging.
Kevin works primarily with drawing, albeit on a large scale. His colourful abstract images portray a fascination with faces and he readily mixes dark realist parts of the human body into this colourful work. Kevin's art in influenced by the animations and amazing street art creations found in the work and culture of Sam 3 from South America.
Paraic is driven by social awareness. His work features dramatic close range portraits, native rural old men from various different cultures, happily smiling yet revealing a sense of being impoverished.
His work began as a sketch before being transferred directly on to walls using many traditional painting techniques. His work pays visual reference to Os Gemos (Portuguese for The Twins, Otavio and Gustavo Pandolfo, Sao Paulo) who have become major influence on defining Brazil's Street Art style.
Fergal mixes abstraction with comic book inspired figuration, and these instantly recognisable creatures with funny hair, oddly placed limbs and weird expressions range from portraits of young and old interacting with each other. The subjects, as one of England's most revered cartoonists John Burgerman does, explore people and their relationships and are depicted through colours and shapes to present their own take on life in a dreamy world.
The inspiration of these three local artists, like many street artists, stem from the desire to transform ordinary decaying places into beautiful and interesting environments.
Street Art at Tracey Avenue is currently being created and there will be an opportunity for the public to meet the Artists at a free public meeting in the Merville Community Centre, Maugheraboy on Thursday 25th September, 2008 from 7pm - 8pm. All ages welcome