On Saturday 28th November we host a number of panels and presentations about Murals for Communities. If you want to know how we brought our project to fruition, this is your opportunity to hear from the artists, communities and project managers who worked together and made it all happen!

Featuring DECOY' is a professional muralist and street artist living and working in Dublin. In recent years, his public profile and reputation as an emerging artist has been building from strength-to-strength. Recent group and individual exhibitions, large-scale outdoor commissions and his strong social media presence are a testament to this.

In 2020 his art has progressed into a visibly unique style. Using abstract shapes and patterns synonymous with childhood drawings, overlapping and colour switching, creates his playful yet considered artworks. Furthermore advancing Irish trends of abstraction and urban art. Also documentation of his day to day activities has become just as important; producing a litany of time lapses and day long paint story collaborations as he goes.

As this chaotic year comes to a close DECOY shows no signs of halting his advance on the contemporary world of muralism. Big plans for huge exterior artworks are soon to be revealed.

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Martina Auz is an illustrator, animator, and mural artist from Lithuania. His style is clean and minimal, a mix between illustration and design. He wraps recognisable subjects in abstract forms, thus stylizing his works.

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Yasja Ligtelijn was born and raised on a houseboat in Amsterdam, 1991. When she was thirteen years old, she moved with her family to the south of the Netherlands; to the countryside in nature. After secondary school, Yasja took Artistic Education in Belgium and slept during the week in a strict boarding school, based in an old monastery.

After that period, she went to the Art Academy in Maastricht (NL) and graduated in 2016 as an illustrative designer. Since 2018 she is working with spray cans as media. Her free work are colourful and dark at the same time. Mostly her artwork contains a critical message. In her work she is standing on the edge of feminism, anti-discrimination and erotism. Sometimes with a little dark humour in it. Before the pandemic broke out, she was painting murals all around Europe and traveling around in her old Peugeuot; fully tagged and bombed by many international graffiti writers. In her free time she’s mostly outside in the woods: mountain biking, climbing or hiking.

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