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URBAN EXPRESSION AND A DEGREE OF DEPRESSION ON LIBERTY LANE

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PHOTOGRAPHED 26 MARCH 2023

This was an excellent location for street art and murals but the quality and selection is not as good as it was.

I have seen this lane described as being a legal location for street art and it is implied that it is legal because property owners have given consent. However, my understanding is that property owners cannot give consent without planning permission.

https://www.legal-walls.net/country/ireland
https://www.garda.ie/en/crime/criminal-damage/property-crime-graffiti-pdf.pdf
https://www.breakingnews.ie/ireland/dublin-needs-to-catch-up-and-allow-street-art-1427964.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/18/dublin-city-council-takes-street-artists-to-court-over-murals-sir-david-attenborough

UNFORTUNATELY THIS BUILDING ON CITY QUAY IS NOW PLAIN WHITE

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THE CRECHE CLOSED IN AUGUST 2017

This photograph was taken in July 2020 and not long after the building became a Covid test centre and the walls were painted white.

I first photographed this building in 2012 after it been dramatically transformed into an eye-opening colour jigsaw puzzle. St Marys creche was transformed by the Dulux team for the Let’s Colour project.

St Mary’s Early Years Education and Care Service operated a community crèche at City Quay closed in August 2017 to facility remedial works in the building featured in my photograph. This resulted in 50 families looking for alternative childcare.

St Marys Creche and Pre-School, located on the City Quay in Dublin, has been dramatically transformed into an eye-opening colour jigsaw puzzle. St Marys creche was transformed by the Dulux team for the Let’s Colour project. Located in Dublin city centre, it has already become an iconic building in the city and the children were delighted with the colourful transformation made to their pre-school.

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ON THE STREET BY CAROLINA MEDINA

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I DECIDED TO CLOSE THE DOOR

The artwork has changed since my last visit. When I last photographed it featured a portrait of Oscar Wilde and the famous quote “I Have Nothing To Declare But My Genius”. Between 2016 and 2018 it featured a portrait of Oscar Wilde done in the style of an old tarot card and it featured the the depiction of one of Wilde’d most famous quotes “We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars.” Showing the gutter under Wilde’s chair and the stars above his head.

The current artwork is On The Street by Carolina Medina a Chilean artist and a graduate of DID graphic design.

With the door open the electronics and paperwork was exposed to the elements and other problems so I decided to close the door but there was no way for me to lock it.

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PAINT-A-BOX STREET ART ON SOUTH LEINSTER STREET

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18 MARCH 2023

I learn something new every day. I thought that this example of paint-a-box street art was located on Nassau Street but it is actually on South Leinster Street which I have been unaware of until today.

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MURAL BY MARCAMIX ON WEST JOHN STREET -DUBLINBIKES STATION 72

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STREET ART THAT NO LONGER EXISTS

To the best of my knowledge there there is nothing here but a blank wall.

Evolve is an Irish creative agency helping with original attention grabbing ‘street art’ and urban art commissions.

A DublinBike docking station is located on this narrow street beside John’s Lane Church.

The church opened in 1874 on the site of St. John’s Hospital (founded c. 1180). It is located on Thomas Street, Dublin, close to the centre of the medieval city, and is served by the Augustinian Order.

STREET ART AT THE TIVOLI CAR PARK AS IT WAS IN JANUARY 2016

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SADLY THIS COMPLEX HAS BEEN REPLACED BY A HOTEL

This was an amazing location for Street Art. These are not my best photographs but they do capture the ‘feel’ of the location. Last year I visited the new complex and it was bleak and the preserved artwork lacked soul.

I was amazed to discover than many of my friends don’t remember the Tivoli as it was and I know that they attend concerts there.

“Tivoli Place”, the scheme containing the square, is owned by the German asset management company DWS, in partnership with aparthotel operators StayCity. In my opinion the scheme is more than disappointing … it is depressing and while it is described as a public space it is a POPS [privately owned public space] it does not appear to meet any real local community requirements.

The Tivoli Theatre was a theatre on Francis Street in The Liberties, Dublin which closed in 2019 and was demolished shortly afterwards for replacement by a hotel. The theatre opened on 21 December 1934 as a replacement for an earlier Tivoli Theatre located on Burgh Quay, which had closed in May 1928.

Built to the designs of architect Vincent Kelly with seating provided for 700. The Tivoli Theatre opened as a cine-variety theatre, but by the late-1930s it had converted to full-time cinema use and was renamed Tivoli Cinema.

The Tivoli Cinema was closed in September 1964. It was converted into a nightclub and a shop; before finally re-opening as a live theatre in 1987 and renamed Tivoli Theatre. At time of closing, the upper theatre could seat 475; and the lower venue was in operation as a nightclub

The walls of the carpark had become a noted street art location and the planning permission to demolish the theatre required the extant art to be photographed and documented prior to demolition.

The venue had seen The Cranberries, Oasis, Blur, Sinéad O’Connor, Suede, The Beastie Boys, Rage Against the Machine, Deadmau5, Perfume Genius,[ and $uicideBoy$ perform.

That Petrol Emotion played the Tivoli three times, including their Irish farewell gig in 1994. Recordings from that concert were included on the live album Final Flame (Fire, Detonation And Sublime Chaos).

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