About Maser

About Maser and his participation in Drawing on Joyce, an Olivier Cornet Gallery exhibition, part of the James Joyce Centre's 2018 Bloomsday Festival, Dublin, Ireland.

Though originally from Ireland Maser truly embodies the centric spirit of street art in his vastly international approach to life and living.

Maser began painting graffiti on the streets of Dublin as early as 1995, and quickly earned the respect of his peers in Ireland and beyond through his seamlessly imaginative, unique style. Maser is now internationally recognised for his expansive repertoire of works which include interactive exhibitions, exquisite murals and even a music video to accompany U2’s studio album, “Songs of Innocence”. Maser provides valuable insight into the role street art plays in society, how artistic style is reflected uniquely through this art form and, crucially, how street art boils down to “Loving, sharing and escapism”. It was each of these which led to the development of the juggernaut that has been Maser’s career, initiated by seeing the tags in Dublin city streets which highlighted the presence of a community which celebrated art, individualism, and the freedom to express this individuality. Due to the small street art community in Ireland Maser highlights how support and respect are essential components of how Ireland has managed to generate so many internationally respected street artists. With his own artistic style drawing upon numerous disparate origins and influences including optical art and mid-century art, Maser is unafraid to try out any artistic format and credits street art with the capacity to enable the evolution of personal style. Considering street art as both a form of protest and a means of communication both of these elements are intensely clear in Maser’s work which often seizes upon relevant social matters and is unequivocal in the statement that it makes. Talking about the content of his street art Maser states that this content is drawn from, “the relationship my work as with the public” and he is a strong proponent of the intimacy of this relationship stating, “My work has always been in the public realm....I know no other way”.

With an eye to the future, Maser hopes to encourage others with his work and speaks of how his work is continually evolving as he finds new confidence and a better understanding of himself the more that his work manages to reflect his intentions, his capacities and his understanding of the world. Though Maser’s style may be in a continual state of evolution the underlying message of his work remains same, “We are all in this together.”


Note on work for the show:

"From the sketching day, I will do multiple line drawings, from those sketches I will create more abstracted colour compositions of each. I intend to make collages from the compositions, by painting solid primary colours on paper, cut the forms and reassembling using the original sketches as reference."
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