Canvassing Cork: July 2014

Thursday, 31 July 2014

LiveStyles, Cork 2014 - Part 3 - Camden Palace

In this post, I'll share the pieces around the Camden Palace Hotel that were painted during the recent 2014 LiveStyles Hip Hop (and street art) Festival, which took place over the June Bank Holiday weekend.

A lot of these you will have already seen as works in progress in Part 1 of this series, as I posted pictures I snapped of some of the artists at work on the Bank Holiday Monday.

Most of these pieces are on Pine Street, but one by Foundry is around the corner on Devonshire Street...

The new piece is next to a piece Foundry did during last year's LiveStyles Fest...

Meanwhile, back on Pine Street...

Some great portraits by Psychonautes...

This is a colourful mural that I think was a collaborative piece between OneR and Marca Mix...

Foundry did another piece on Pine Street...

The rest of the wall on Pine Street is taken up with a beautifully mad mural that was started last year by Nol and was finished this year by him and Edo...

This is the original piece painted last year...

Monday, 21 July 2014

LiveStyles, Cork 2014 - Part 2 - Coburg Lane

This is part two of a series I'm doing on street art pieces painted during the recent LiveStyles Hip Hop Festival, which ran over the June Bank Holiday weekend in Cork. This post will deal with pieces that were painted in Coburg Lane, which runs behind the Sin É pub. The two walls in the back of the lane are covered with some nice work.

The first piece below is a collaboration between Psychonautes and Foundry.

This is the wall along the south side of the lane. It's covered in some work done by Spore and Macism. I've set out below photos of the pieces along this wall, from left to right.

Next are the pieces along the north side of the lane. Again, I've set out below photos of the pieces along this wall, from left to right. The one exception is the piece at the far right of this wall. That is a piece by Psychonautes called "Lil' Holly". He painted it last year, and I've already covered it in a previous blog post (http://canvassingcork.blogspot.ie/2013/08/lil-holly.html).

These bits were done by Nol and Dusto, I think...

This one was done by Nol (outline) and Dusto (fill)...

While photographing in the lane, I was joined by another street art enthusiast....

Coburg Lane is the home of the Flava Floors Dance Studio, run by Dusto, who is the main organiser of the LiveStyles Fest. These are some stickers posted up outside the studio, contributed by visitors...

Links!! for more great work by these artists!

Here is Spore's Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sporegraffiti/

Here is Macism's Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/sporegraffiti/

Here's a link to the Nol/Dusto goldfish piece on Dusto's Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/dusto/14477770327/

Here's a link to the Psychonautes/Foundry piece on Psychonautes' Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=269747263211765&set=pb.164185377101288.-2207520000.1405970045.&type=1&theatre

...and on Foundry's Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/foundry5/11806161493/

Here is Psychonautes' Flickr page as well:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/psychonautes/

Here is Nol's Flickr page:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/nol/

Tuesday, 15 July 2014

LiveStyles, Cork 2014 - Part 1 - Work in Progress

The LiveStyles Hip Hop Festival took place again this year over the June Bank Holiday weekend (Saturday through Monday, May 31 to June 2).

This was the fourth time the festival has been held. Sadly, media covering the event have said that this year's LiveStyles Festival is to be the last (see links below).

I managed to get down to the Camden Palace Hotel on Monday, 2 June, and shoot some photos of artists working on the wall that runs along Pine Street. Here they are hard at work...