India has more foreign workers than any other country with over 16 million people living and working outside of the country. While many workers contribute to Health, technology, education and other highly skilled service industries many workers end up in low paid, labour intensive jobs in the construction industry. In countries on the Arabian Peninsula
In November Guido Van Helten and Fintan Magee travelled to Tehran, the capital city of Iran. This was the first time foreign artists had been commissioned to work in the country. The work marks the 50th year anniversary of the opening of the Australian Embassy in Iran and the project unfortunately started on the day
For the fifth time, MURAL International Public Art Festival has just wrapped up and we are very happy to bring you a quick recap! Festival that started on June 8th and finished 18th of June brought us some marvellous murals took place and enhanced an already impressive and well-rounded route of artwork from the Quartier des spectacles
Australian artist Fintan Magee who has been featured on Streetartnews countless times is one of the artists participating for the fifth edition of MURAL International Public Art Festival and here is his work in progress update… In the pictures you are able to see the mural starting to go up covering already done outlines with two of artists signature characters, one of
Australian superstar Fintan Magee just wrapped up yet another beautiful piece of street art which is located somewhere on the streets of Brisbane in Australia. Born in Lismore NSW, the Australian artist moved to Brisbane at a young age and began drawing shortly after. Later on, he was exposed to the graffiti culture and began tagging on walls. Moving
Easter Weekend marked the official opening of the inaugural Nuart Aberdeen event. After successfully beautifying the streets of Stavanger in Norway for over 15 years now, the organizers partnered with Aberdeen Inspired and Aberdeen City Council in order to bring their vision to the streets of Granite City. The 1st edition of the event produced
Australian artist Fintan Magee recently visited the city of Amman in Jordan accompanied by the good people from the AptArt association in order to bring some new lift into the Azraq refugee camp. Inside Azraq Refugee camp there is a space for children who arrive without their parents. All the stories are different. Some children lost
Fintan Magee was recently invited to take part in the second edition of the FestiWall Street Art Festival which took place in the lovely island of Sicily. Painting on the streets of Ragusa, the Australian artist once again went with a super-sized wall which is entitled “The Gardener”. After several days of work, the finished
