Ardú Street Art Returns for 2025 with New Murals & Artists
From Ardú Street Art.
15 September 2025.
Ardú Street Art, the open-air gallery that has transformed Cork city since 2020, is back for 2025 with an exciting new programme of large-scale murals and artistic talent. Supported by Creative Ireland, Cork City Council Arts Office, Pat McDonnell Paints, and Cork Airport, this year’s project will once again bring colour, conversation, and creativity to the streets of Cork.
The first mural of 2025, “The Wonder of Travel”, was recently unveiled at Cork Airport. A collaboration between Cork-based artists Peter Martin and Shane O’Driscoll, the work celebrates the history of air travel through Cork Airport since 1961, while looking forward to its bright future and development.
“This mural hopes to explore the excitement and endless possibilities that air travel brings to the people of Cork and further afield,”
said artist Peter Martin.
In addition, Ardú is delighted to announce two new large-scale murals set for Cork city centre:
Kone.one at Water Street, Cork City
Cork-born multidisciplinary artist Kone.one has deep roots in graffiti culture and has spent the past decade developing a style that blends graphic and illustrative elements with figurative realism. Having lived and travelled around the world, he now returns to his hometown to create a bold, dynamic mural for Ardú 2025.
Hixxy at Liberty Street, Cork City
Jo Hicks (aka Hixxy) is a renowned Nottinghamshire born mural artist now living in Dublin. Grounded in collage and printmaking, her work has a playful, sometime surreal quality. Interested in exploring themes around connection, personal space, limbo and balance, Hixxy explores what are the knock-on effects we have to one another, and how to balance the need for community yet retain identity.
Composition through collage allows for serendipity and unforeseen outcomes that play with negative space, layers, shadows and texture to communicate depth.
Both murals will be begin today (Monday 15th September).
About Ardú Street Art:
Ardú Street Art was established in Cork during lockdown of October 2020, originally bringing seven of Ireland’s most respected and renowned street artists to create large scale murals at key Cork city-centre locations. Thanks to phenomenal community engagement and support, the event returned annually with more walls unveiled.
These inspiring pieces of work dotted across the city add greatly to the cultural landscape of the city centre. They’ve spurred conversations on the ground, shared widely across online platforms. Ardú Street Art continues to brighten up the streets of Cork year after year.
Ardú Street Art Project is the brainchild of visual artist and designer Shane O’Driscoll, muralist, stained-glass artist and secondary school teacher Peter Martin, and organiser of the annual Cork Graffiti Jam, Paul Gleeson. Project managed by Rose-Anne Kidney of Goldiefish Events and made possible with generous support from Creative Ireland, Cork City Council Arts Office and Pat McDonnell Paints.
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The Ardú Street Art project is made possible with generous support from Creative Ireland and Cork City Council Arts Office. It is also supported by Pat McDonnell Paints.
Image: Artist Shane O’Driscoll & Peter Martin, photographer Darragh Kane