Will St Leger

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Will St Leger is a street artist/artivist from Dublin Ireland.

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[edit] Career

St Leger's stencils are humorous and sometimes surreal fusion of icons, events and images from popular culture. Previously a graphic designer[1] and former Greenpeace activist[2] St Leger refers to himself as a artivist.

Photo of "Landmine Trail" by Will St Leger in Merrion Square, Dublin. 2007.
Photo of "Landmine Trail" by Will St Leger in Merrion Square, Dublin. 2007.

[edit] Art Intervention

'Landmine Trail': On Sunday 1st April, 2007. he placed 100 fake 'landmines' made from stenciled enemal plates in five parks around Dublin, Ireland.[3][4] In an interview with Wooster Collective he said, "The reason for doing this was to get people asking themselves, 'what if the world I walked in was littered with landmines?'"

'Bertie cash giveaway': On 31st March, 2008. St Leger placed £50,000 worth of fake 'Bertie' bills depicting Irish Taoiseach, Bertie Ahern on the statue of Molly Malone in Dublin, Ireland.[5]. The artist stated that the money which also depicts a excavator tipping Celtic art into a waste skip were in protest to the N3 road's incursion of the Hill of Tara.


[edit] References

  1. ^ "Artivism" Indymedia.ie. Retrieved April 21, 2007
  2. ^ "Interview with a Stop Esso activist" greenpeace.org.uk Retrieved April 21, 2007
  3. ^ "100 Landmines in Dublin". woostercollective.com. Retrieved April 21, 2007
  4. ^ "Landmine Trail". Retrieved April 21, 2007
  5. ^ ". The Irish Independent. Retrieved April 1st, 2008

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