Nuart
Nuart Aberdeen ‘23 Line-up Revealed
Nuart Aberdeen is back in full force this year with yet another stellar line up to grace the streets of Scotland’s “Granite City.” The theme for this year’s festival is “Rewilding,” a subject that touches on many issues related to “Trespass and Transgression,” a topic extensively explored by the ingenious Nuart Journal associates during the …
Mural By Robert Montgomery In Trondeheim Airport, Norway
The latest public work by British contemporary artist Robert Montgomery has just been completed in the city of Trondheim (situated where the River Nidelva meets Trondheim Fjord) in Central Norway. Montgomery is well known for his work in public space and billboard poems. He also makes light works, fire poems, woodcuts, paintings and watercolours. His …
Renate Hermansen Paints a Mural In Ålgård, Norway
Nuart, as an organization, offers a buffet for the intellectually ravenous mind. Nuart’s team has their hand in the each of the multitudinous pots conjuring delectable concoctions for their audience; from the documentaries this team supports to their esteemed journal, Nuart constantly seeks new manners to engage and contend with culture. Murals have historically proven …
Nuart’s 20th Anniversary Lockdown Edition Paste-Ups.
In a world of eight billion voices, I believe statistics is the only unbiased force to be trusted. I venerate the proverbial ‘bell curve’ as if it were a near-divine concept, this idea that the normal distribution governs every area of our earthly lives. This view means that as the COVID-19 crisis mounted, I assumed …
Jad El Khoury: An Artist Grappling With A Society In Denial
At this year’s annual Arte Laguna Prize in Venice (Italy), Nuart’s Martyn Reed convened a Land Art/Urban Art panel intended to explore the growing pervasiveness of street art in creating “museums without walls.” Populated by professionals including Dr. Susan Hansen of Nuart, independent curator Simone Pallotta, and Mattias Givell of Wanas Konst, the discussion “[reflected], from different …
Enchantment In The Granite City: 2019 Nuart Aberdeen Recap
Aberdeen in Scotland’s North East is the country’s third largest city. Famed for its granite, the light coming off the North Sea causes the pale grey stone to sparkle in the sun. The striking architecture (some dating back to the 15th Century) and statues are majestic, and the cobbled back streets are full of authentic …
The World’s Leading Street Art Project For Seniors Lands In Aberdeen
As part of this year’s festival, Nuart Aberdeen teamed up with Portuguese curator Lara Seixo Rodrigues to present a series of workshops aimed at the over 65’s. Lara is the founder of the world renowned LATA 65 project. A unique groundbreaking street art project for seniors that has been emulated the world over. Lara is also …
Stories of a word – Said Dokins for Nuart 2018
Mexican caligraffiti artist Said Dokins has taken part in the 13th edition of Nuart Festival and left behind this thought provoking, community based mural inspired by the experiences of the foreigners who have settled in Stavanger, Norway, either through choice or necessity. About the Mural Prior to creating his latest mural the artist conducted interviews with individuals from Johannes Læringsenter – a …
Amnesty Collaborates With Ricky Lee Gordon in NUART Festival To Support world Activists
Amnesty International teamed up with the world’s leading street art festival NUART and South African street artist Ricky Lee Gordon in the Norwegian city of Stavanger to celebrate the bravery of human rights activists around the world. About the Project Adding his voice to Amnesty International’s ‘Brave’ campaign, Ricky Lee Gordon created a mural of Sakris Kupila, …
Nimi’s “The Last Traveller” in Stavanger
The Bergen-based artist NIMI recently completed an amazing mural in Stavanger (Norway) for Nuart’s ‘Art City’ program: a new initiative outside of Nuart’s annual flagship festival. About The Mural Entitled “The Last Traveler”, the mural depicts a Nepalese Nomadic woman who has no home and no direction, with her baggage, culture and identity on her shoulder, …
Interview: Martin Whatson
Martin Whatson is born in Norway. He discovered stencils and the urban art scene while studying Art and Graphic design at Westerdals School of Communication, in Oslo. After following the development in the street art scene closely, he started his own artistic production in 2004. Martin has a continuous urge to search for beauty in …