For the ninth straight year, BSA brings Nuart to our readers – artists, academics, collectors, instructors, curators, fanboys /girls, photographers, organizers, all. Not sure who else has been covering this international Street-Art themed indoor/outdoor festival and forum as early and continuously as we have, but we’re happy to say that this Norwegian pocket of public art continues to hold its own among a suddenly bloated field of new festivals and events globally.
Melbournes’ Fintan Magee has just begun his 32 meter high double silos after the fierce rains dissuaded him for a couple of days. After carefully planning out the figure/s he’s gradually bringing them alive here in this coastal Norwegian town – a reminder of the maritime history of the people here, and the rising tides of our modern era.
Fintan Magee at work on his sketches for the silos murals for NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Ironically an oil economy like Norway’s is implicated in the warming of the atmosphere, so Mr. Magee’s ongoing program of climate-change related murals around the world takes on a special resonance here. Thanks to an unfailing respect for intellectual independence, Nuart has often featured work that is critical to the fossil fuel economy over the years. Stay tuned for a finished image of Fintan’s towers this week.
Fintan Magee sketches for the silos murals for NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee work in progress for the silos murals for NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee’s work washed away by the pesky Stavanger’s weather. Nuart 2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee at work on the silos murals for NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee work in progress at the silos murals for NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee at work on the silos murals for NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee at work on the silos murals for NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee at work on the silos murals for NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee. Process shot. NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee at work on the silos murals for NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
Fintan Magee. NUART 2016. Stavanger, Norway. 09-2016. (photo © Tor Ståle Moen)
We wish to extend our most heartfelt thank you to our friend Tor for sharing his photos with us in exclusive for this year’s coverage of NUART 2016.
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