For this year’s Nuart Aberdeen theme ‘A Revolution of the Ordinary’, Spanish street artist Hyuro painted a mural commemorating the conflict and Union of Scotland and England.
About The Mural
“An affective bond” is inspired by the union between Scotland and England, two countries sharing a border and are part of the Great Britain along with Wales. During the first half of the eighteenth century, the Scottish people did not support the union causing tension and uprisings. This controversy has come to symbolize the modern day relationship between the English and Scottish, dating back from decades before.
To depict this historic hostility, Hyuro cleverly painted an image of two (wo)men joined together by their shirts that are clearly in mid combat to separate. As Hyuro is best known for addressing prevalent social and political issues in her work, the image aims to transmit the relationships of conflicts and contradictions that characterize our most complex side.
About The Artist
Hyuro is an Argentinian born artist best known for her black and white murals, paintings and drawings focused on visual expression.
Over the years she’s managed to create a name in urban art circles by blending politics and surrealist sensibility into dreamlike compositions. The characters she creates are dark, often of decapitated figures of dreary women, and animals, that suggest a message or a narrative but leave most interpretation up to the viewer.
Hyuro began her career working on producing paintings and drawings, but in recent years has focused her practice on the streets of Valencia, Spain and Throughout Europe.
About Nuart Aberdeen
Nuart Aberdeen, a new international platform, is designed to not only present the most interesting and relevant Street Art of its time, but to also activate and inspire an emergent local scene whilst encouraging creative collaborations with twin city Stavanger.
Brought to you by the team behind Stavanger’s internationally renowned Nuart Festival, the award-winning festival returned to the Granite City for its second year this April.
Developed in collaboration with Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council, Nuart Aberdeen provides a platform for local, national and international artists to showcase their work through a series of site-specific murals, installations, interventions, and temporary exhibitions.
Images by Ian Cox
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