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Splash and Burn: an art campaign taking aim at Indonesia’s palm oil industry

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Nestled in the French Alps is Grenoble, a rural and undeveloped area in France where a wide range of wildlife can be found. For this years’ edition of the Grenoble Street Art Fest, the Spanish street-artist Dulk created a stunning mural titled “The Guardian” that brought attention to the lynx, a species of wild cats …

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Founded in 2014, KIRK Gallery’s ‘Out in the Open’ project in Aalborg, Denmark brings art out of the gallery and into the streets, making it accessible to the many rather than the few. On his inaugural venture into Danish soil, Portuguese artist Alexandre Farto aka Vhils added to KIRK gallery by creating this mural within the context …

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After nearly two weeks of painting, Australian street artist Fintan Magee completed his powerful new mural titled “Structure” for the fifth edition of Out in the Open festival, hosted in Aalborg, Denmark by KIRK Gallery. The festival’s lineup, we reported on in April 2019, featured seven artists from five different countries all over the world. …

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Li-Hill is a multi-disciplinary artist originally from Toronto and currently based in Brooklyn. Wishing his craft, he employs painting, illustration, stenciling, and sculpture in addition to being a master muralist of course.  With a degree in Fine Arts, Li-Hill’s diverse works range from smaller multiples to gargantuan murals that explore industrialization, scientific breakthrough, man versus …

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Telmo Pieper and Miel Krutzmann aka TelmoMiel have just completed this breathtaking mural for the Artding Festival in Germany, demonstrating the evolution of their style. The mural is cleaner, crisper and richer in contrast than their past work.  The duo have intentionally simplified their style to focus on what matters most to them as artists, adding a …

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We always think of sports and art as two opposite disciplines: sport involves bodily kinesthetics and art involves creativity. However, there are instances where the two do intersect, and these instances are worth celebrating. Sporting events give artists a chance to celebrate sports through art. Because of this, many sporting events have been known to …

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Nevercrew, the street art duo hailing from Switzerland, has acquired notoriety thanks to their passion for artfully depicting the entangled forces of human society and nature. This month, they completed two large scale works in Europe that directly communicate this consistent theme in a perpetually evolving fashion. Celsius  The pair harnessed the power of innovation …

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Antonio Segura Donat aka Dulk, was born in Valencia in 1983. As a child, he was inspired by illustrations of exotic animals he found in his parents’ collection of old encyclopedias, and was never without his sketchbook.  At the age of nineteen, he started working under the moniker of Dulk and went on to study illustration …

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Ernest Zacharevic, also known as ZACH, recently joined the ranks of artists enlisted to create murals in Turin, Italy as a contribution for the city’s ‘Toward 2030’ in initiative. A press release for the artist’s latest work explains that this initiative is “an awareness concept referencing the United Nations’ seventeen sustainable development goals.” The project …

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Two years after Underground at Ink Block first launched, transforming a hidden South End parking lot into a unique urban park and outdoor gallery, Boston has continued to embrace street art. From Okudart in the Seaport to Super A on the Greenway, top tier artists from around the world have made a point to come …

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New York born Oliver Vernon has just completed his largest mural to date, forming part of the 5th edition of Kirk Gallery’s “Out in the Open” mural project.  Although Oliver arrived in Aalborg with a huge, carefully printed out sketch: he found that translating this vision from paper onto such a sizeable wall was quite …

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Street art takes its creators to unpredictable places: skyscrapers’ facades, abandoned power plants, foreign nations, or any combination of the aforementioned. It can even take one to jail if they paint without permission. In his quest “to continue the conveying of his extraordinary views and art in the most peculiar places” Barcelona-based street artist PEJAC …

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