Draw Out - Urban Exhibitionists

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Great article announcing our fav project to date.
Thanks so much to everyone who contributed
Digo Diego
Darren Wallace
Ray OHalloran
Brian Odonnell
Larkin Bullman
Taz Conway

Photo credits: Darren Ryan

“The delivery team are all Limerick based and have been through mentorship with Limerick City Build and associated artist collective Draw Out, this initiative has cultivated a professional team of local Limerick practitioners that are committed to rolling out similar projects across the city in order to address spaces that are currently derelict or have yet to develop their civic potential.”

Draw Out Honan's Quay mural transforms city into a vibrant canvas Draw Out has announced the completion of a stunning ground mural on Honan's Quay which boasts an eye-catching and innovative design

This time 8years ago did a little residency with us in Limerick for the year we launched our new Draw Out premises in .city.build
He created this masterful sculpture and watching him work was one of the joys of my life!
What a talent.
Colm Toolan

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Please support us by buying our artistic team a coffee! It’s a simple small gesture that can help us when we are working marathon style hours delivering these murals.

Simply click the link and follow the instructions.
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Draw Out Urban Art is Murals & public Art production Hey,we have created this page so that you guys can support the artists that come to Limerick. The entire team work tirelessly to create timeless murals. A small...

Draw Out Urban Exhibitionists Completes Mural in Thomondgate, Limerick, Celebrating Community History and Identity.

Draw Out Urban Exhibitionists, a company dedicated to creating public art that transforms urban spaces, has just completed a stunning mural in Thomondgate, Limerick. The mural, located on the Temperance Hall building, features a black and white image inspired by an archival photograph of children cleaning in the community.

The Temperance Hall in Thomondgate, has a rich history dating back to the 19th century. It was built in 1844 as a gathering place for members of the temperance movement, who promoted abstinence from alcohol. The temperance movement was popular in Ireland in the 19th century, and the Temperance Hall in Thomondgate served as a hub for meetings and events promoting sobriety and temperance. The building was also used for other community gatherings, including dances, concerts, and political rallies.

Thomondgate itself is a historically significant area of Limerick, known for its rich cultural heritage and strong sense of community identity. The mural celebrates this history and identity, and serves as a point of pride for the neighbourhood.

The artist behind the mural is Mariana Santos from Portugal. Santos is known for her powerful and thought-provoking pieces that bring attention to social issues and urban landscapes. Her work is deeply rooted in the communities where she creates, and the Thomondgate mural is no exception.

"We're thrilled to have had the opportunity to create this mural in Thomondgate," said Draw Out Urban Exhibitionists founder, Catherine O’Halloran. "We worked closely with the local community and Thomondgate Residents Committee to bring this project to life, and we're proud of the final result."
The mural features an image of children cleaning in the community, inspired by an archival photograph from the 19070’s Limerick. The image is a powerful representation of the community's history and identity, and serves as a reminder of the importance of community spirit and cooperation.

"The mural is a wonderful celebration of our community's history and identity," said Sean Mc ilfatrick, of the Thomondgate Residents Committee. "We're delighted to have this beautiful piece of public art in our neighbourhood, and we hope it will inspire others to learn more about our community and its rich cultural heritage as well as participate in small acts of citizenship to enhance their local area and generate sense of pride of Place." Special thanks goes out to Cannon Donal McNamara and his committee.

The project was made possible through the support of local businesses and support of local community. The mural has already become a point of pride for the community, with residents and passersby stopping to admire and take photos of the stunning piece.

For more information about Draw Out Urban Exhibitionists and their work, visit their website at www.drawout.ie.

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New piece of urban art pops up in Thomondgate Thomondgate in Limerick city is the latest location to host a vibrant piece of urban art.

Hey, we have created this page so that you guys can support the artists that come to Limerick. The entire team work tirelessly to create timeless murals. A small contribution of a coffee or lunch can help the team delivering the work to stay focused and feel the deep appreciation of our local community.
We need you to continue to do what we do.
We love you!
Thank you 🙏

Draw Out Urban Art is Murals & public Art production Hey,we have created this page so that you guys can support the artists that come to Limerick. The entire team work tirelessly to create timeless murals. A small...

Another one of Limerick’s Gems almost complete.
One last push today !!!
Happy Easter ♥️
Artist: Mariana Santos

DRAWOUT is looking for any local artist/street artist/ mural painters.

If you are an expierenced visual artist that would like the opportunity to work on large scale urban art projects - get in touch

Please submit your portfolio and artist bio to [email protected]

We are delighted to be featured on Virgin Media Ireland for the series which featured Limerick and showcase the Draw Out Street Art Trail.
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Artist: Digo Diego
University of Limerick

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Work has begun on mural to cover Limerick 'eyesore' A massive mural is being painted on a building once described by a former Limerick Mayor as 'one of Limerick city's biggest eyesores'.

The first blast of colour arrives!!

Today was the launch of our landmark project at the UL City Campus.

Digo Diego, the artist presented his exciting design to UL President Kerstin Mey and Limerick City and County Council's Director of Planning, Environment & Place-Making Nuala Gallagher and got stuck in with the first lines of the mural.

Make sure to keep an eye out to see the Mural develop for yourself this coming week and watch Digo's artwork come to life.

Super excited to finally announce this landmark project.
We cannot wait to show you all what's planned.

In the meantime, join us for some live painting, Culture Night .

UL City Campus Façade of UL City Campus to be given major overhaul with mural painted by renowned Spanish muralist and artist Digo Diego.

We are hosting a live street art event in Honan's Quay (Riverside of the Old Dunnes Building) this Friday, Culture Night, from 6pm. Join us to leave your mark on what was the old Dunnes building, as we prepare to paint a new landmark mural.

We will also have the lovely Grace Dyas join us to capture some of your stories, memories and wishes for the building going forward.

WE ARE HIRING!!

We are recruiting an arts administrator for the project
Please email [email protected] for more information and to submit CV's

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Orlaith De Búrca
Location: Arthlunkard St. Mary St, Junction
Title: Grá Mór

LIMERICK IS GRÁ MÓR EVERYWHERE YOU GO

Much like a lot of Orlaith’s work, this piece is as gaelige. It is based on the huge love between Irish people, as well as the love for our teanga. Grá Mór for everyone, everywhere.

Orlaith de Búrca is a freelance illustrator and graphic designer based in Limerick City. She is also currently studying graphic design in Limerick School of Art and Design. He has a grá for gaelige and loves to create feel good work, to brighten up people days. Bright colours and kind words are always a feature.

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Website / Shop: orlaithdeburcadesign.com

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Nell Stritch
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Location - Low Cecil St.
Title - ‘Happy Heart’

LIMERICK IS INSPIRING

Nells work represents the love she has felt through beginning her journey of being an artist in Limerick City.
Nell Stritch is a Pressed Flower artist based in Limerick City and opened her business Pressed Flowers by Nell in 2019. Nell grows her flowers in her garden and handpicks and hand presses each one individually. Nell loves to create bespoke art with Flowers and nature is at the core of each piece she creates.

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www.pressedflowersbynell.com

Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Margarita Bernal Arango
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Location - Rear of Arthurs Quay, Hunt Museum side
Title - ‘Flourishing’

LIMERICK IS FLOURISHING

Margarita is a Digital Illustrator who uses an iPad, stylus pen and Procreate as her main tools.

Marga has been working as a graphic designer for almost 20 years and she is passionate about design, learning new skills every day, and creating beautiful things that make people feel inspired.

“I love Procreate, do macrame and when I have more time like to do some watercolour floral shapes. I love to take photos with my phone of flowers and to find the shapes and vibrant colours they produce. I am constantly creating and learning new ways to draw in Procreate and this floral design express my love for flowers, bringing a combination of vibrant colours and motivational, hidden text placed around the flowers, hope you can find them!”

Margarita is from Bogotá, Colombia. She is currently living in Limerick for the last decade.
“I am a proud mum of a ginger 4-year-old boy and married to an amazing Irish artist, Ken Coleman whom I admire and love so much.”

About 2 years ago Marga was looking for something to help her to relax and disconnect from her busy work life and motherhood. She started to practice different creative techniques like watercolour, macrame, and digital illustrations. Her busy routine was taking over, and it was hard to find time to include this new creative way of self-care in her day. Her need for creation was growing so she then decided that she wanted to take it more seriously, to help her mental health and to upgrade her artistic and crafting skills. At the same time, she felt that she wasn’t sufficiently confident in her ability to empower her creative side again. She made it her business to dedicate specific time to honing her skills. Bit by bit she began to dedicate more and more time to her own creative process, much to her delight.

Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Leah O’ Sullivan
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Location: Foxes Bow (William St side)
Title - ‘Aboy the Kid’

LIMERICK IS US

Leah O’ Sullivan is a graduate of Printmaking at Limerick School of Art and Design. She works with mediums such as photography, printmaking, and painting. She is inspired by nature and the places
and people she encounters on a day-to-day basis.

Her concept for this project was to create a box with eye-catching colours. It features a sun in the centre along with a blue background including clouds. Inside the sun is our cities catchphrase “Aboy the kid!”, which encapsulates Limerick’s personality as a whole.

Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Wally Cassidy
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Location - Dock Rd. (Outside LK95FM)
Title – Untitled

LIMERICK IS THE REASON I PICKED UP A CAMERA AGAIN

Born in the UK to Irish parents, raised in Coolock on the northside of Dublin in the 70-90's, then moved to Athlone to work on building sites during the Celtic Tiger years. Living in Limerick for the last decade to be close to his daughter but moving to London soon to be with his first love... and to document the ‘other half’.

As an atheist he is fascinated in the lengths people will go to when it comes to religion, hence the reason he spent the last several years documenting ‘manic street preachers’ on the streets of Limerick and Ireland. Attendance at churches is at an all-time low here in Ireland so I thought I'd better capture the end of era.

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Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Kathy Tiernan
Instagram - .kathytiernan
Location - Junction of Parnell St and Sexton St
Title - ‘Cherry Blossoms’

LIMERICK IS A WARM SPRING DAY AFTER A LONG WINTER

Originally from Kildare, Kathy Tiernan has lived in Limerick for 30 years. She works full-time as an artist and picture framer and sells her work predominantly from By Design - A local Story, a co-op based enterprise in Castletroy. As an artist she has exhibited work with various groups, at the Hunt Museum, City Gallery, and most recently at Riverbank Arts Centre in Kildare, as well as two solo exhibitions at Friars Gate Theatre in Kilmallock.
Kathy chose to paint the cherry blossom near to Wickham/Parnell/Mallow street. The cherry blossom in the People's Park is almost as iconic as the bandstand. When Spring erupts in the park, the cherry blossom calls people back to enjoy the city. (The warmth of Spring after a long Winter). The vibrant blue sky and the pale pink would also brighten any location and is in keeping with her style of painting.

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Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Rosina Law-Braney
Instagram – .rosie
Location - Lower Bedford Row
Title - ‘Take Up Space’

LIMERICK IS FEMINIST

Rosina Law-Braney is a visual artist based in Limerick, Ireland. Her practice is primarily film photography, embroidery, and illustration.
Rosina creates illustrations in her unique style about feminism. A project she has been working on the last couple years is ‘All is fair in luv, s*x and war’ which touches on different topics from toxic masculinity to the vulnerability of the loneliness experience as ‘twenty sumthing woman’ in the 21st century.

Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Liam Madden
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Location - Honan’s Quay (Outside Enable Ireland)
Title - 'Where Love Lives'

LIMERICK IS WHERE LOVE LIVES

Liam Madden is a graphic designer/illustrator based in Limerick, Ireland.
Having originally studied Fine Art Printmaking in the Limerick School of Art and Design and graduating in 1999, he then continued his studies in 2011 and gained a degree in Visual Communication from Crawford College of Art and Design. He is currently finishing an MA research scholarship which focuses on the application of new media technologies for the design of enchanting museum experiences.

Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Laura Poff
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Location - William X Whickham Street Junction
Title - 'Untitled'

LIMERICK IS MORE THAN MEETS THE EYE

Laura’s work encompasses drawing, painting and sculpture while focusing on contemporary non-image-based abstraction. The use of repetition, balance and chance are common themes central to her practice. The work is an on-going exploration of abstraction based on forms found in the natural work and those conceived by human ingenuity.

These ‘Sculptural Drawings’ consist of a geometric framework of columns, circles, lines, and squares married with organic patterns. These abstract visual landscapes play with the dynamics of shape and surface to create a visual display of light, texture, and form.

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Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Ken Coleman
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Location - BOI, O’ Connell St, Limerick
Title - ‘Limerick Abu 21’

LIMERICK IS THE SOURCE OF MY INSPIRATION FOR FAMILY, HISTORY, NOSTALGIA, CULTURE AND IMAGERY. THESE THEMES AND THIS CITY ARE THE FOUNDATION OF MY WORK.

Ken Coleman is an Irish mixed-media artist who combines fine art training with photography, traditional sculpture, 3D modelling, digital painting and emerging technologies.

Ken Uses 3D Scanning technology to scan action figures, people, and everyday objects. This technology has helped him, along with his macro photography, to combine a lifelong love of toys, kit-bashing and fine art into various digital mediums. Ken’s workflow & methodology is often about the subconscious and the processes of negative human emotions creating a positive outcome. He Often combines the human form, other organic materials, and mechanical parts. Nostalgia & 80s pop-culture have a strong influence and feeds directly into the work.

Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Emmett Walsh ‘Diabhall’ -
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Location - Shannon Street (Old Debenhams entrance)
Title - ‘Sionna’

LIMERICK IS HISTORIC

Emmett Walsh is an Irish Visual artist focusing on the topic of Irish folklore and history of the ancient Gaels and Ireland throughout the decades, combining them with the contemporary culture of today.
Emmett decided to do his own take on the story of the River Shannon as he lives right beside it. There are many different stories about it but he chose the story of the Goddess the river is named after; Sionnan and how she visited the well where the Shannon supposedly begins. According to lore, she heard the Salmon of Knowledge lived there and she began to throw stones to get his attention. This angered him and he summoned the Ollphéist, the monster of the well, to swim towards her and kill her. The Ollphéist proceeded to swim, chasing her and as he did, he created a river from born from the movement. The water quickly took hold of Sionnan and she was washed out to sea where she died.
The Ollpéist is also known as the Cata of the Shannon, not unlike the notion of the Shannon's very own Loch Ness monster.

Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Darren Ryan - Daren Ryan Photography
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Location - Roches St (Chicken Hut)
Title - ‘Madonna and Child’

LIMERICK IS OURS

Darren’s work is a collection of in-camera double exposures shot in Limerick city based on the themes of Identity and based on the ideas of Bakhtin concept of ‘Carnival’.

Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

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Crea O’ Donnell -
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Location - Bank Place
Title - 'In Tandem'

LIMERCK IS MULTI LAYERED

Crea is a visual artist from Limerick and based out of Wickham Street Studios. Crea creates her work by applying abstraction creating intense moments by rules of omission. The results of her work are deconstructed to the extent that meaning is shifted and possible interpretation becomes multi-layered, much like her style of painting.

Photo Credits - Wally Cassidy Photography

Great achievement for all the team and each and every artist we have worked with over the years!!

Limerick Council - Comhairle Luimnigh on Twitter “Congratulations to on being named Runner-Up in the Creative Place Category of the awards 2021 last night. https://t.co/FHVYQCn9Xj”

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The latest addition to the Urban Exhibition is from local artist Liam Madden! Located on Honan’s Quay right outside the entrance to the Enable Ireland shop, this positive message of ‘Limerick is where love lives’ brightens yet another corner of our city!

In conjunction with Limerick City and County Council and Limerick Culture and Arts Office