Fintan Magee's Nuart Festival Mural in Stavanger, Norway

Fintan Magee Street Art Mural in Stavanger for Nuart Festival

Hookedblog has been in Stavanger, Norway attending the 16th edition of the annual Nuart Festival. We have already shared a selection of works created on the streets of Stavanger by Belgian stencil artist Jaune, now back in London, we are slowly working our way through a week's worth of photographs taken during our visit to Norway.

Artist Fintan Magee Stavanger Mural
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While we were in town we were fortunate enough to catch Australian artist Fintan Magee in action putting the finishing touches to his epic Nuart Festival Mural.

Titled ‘Monument to a Disappearing Monument', Magee spent two weeks working across two 50m silos on this dual mural that is one of the largest works to date created in the city.

Stavanger Street Art Mural by Fintan Magee in Norway

Of the new mural Magee has said; "In the beginning of 2016 global oil prices dropped to their lowest in decades. The slump has been driven by and a lack of demand attributed to the rise of the fracking industry, more fuel-efficient vehicles, a lack of investment in exploration, and a number of other factors.

Norway, one of Europe’s biggest oil producers has been hit hard by the price slump and in the oil city of Stavanger, house prices are falling, unemployment is rising and restaurants are closing. Some now predict that Norway could lose close to 200,000 oil jobs by 2020.

This mural painted on two silos in a soon-to-be demolished industrial district depicts an oil worker standing at the edge of the city, the reflected image on the right is created using a Rorschach technique and the paint appears to be is breaking to pieces and disappearing.

The work directly addresses the issue of Job loses in Western Norway while further commenting how our global economy, changing markets, the collapse of Western industry, privatization, and technological advancement has left working-class people and their families increasingly marginalized, isolated, and left behind." — Fintan Magee.

Fintan Magee putting the finishing touches to his latest mural for Nuart Festival in Stavanger, Norway.

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Fintan Magee's finished mural and the Stavanger skyline in Norway.

Our friends from FifthWallTV were also in Stavanger for this year's Nuart Festival and have produced this short video in which they catch up with Fintan Magee's talking about his mural, be sure to check it out.

Fintan Magee on Instagram — @fintan_magee

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