Mad About Cork’s electrical box paintings honour a wide variety of Cork heroes and characters including Cillian Murphy, Maggie Barry, Daniel Florence O’Leary, Mary Agnes Clerke, Ashling Thompson, Mary Elmes, the O’Donovan Brothers, King Joffrey/Jack Gleeson, and the legendary Cork band The Frank and Walters.
Other projects include a collaboration with the Cork Samaritans to promote their freephone 116 123 support services. We also have numerous other decorative boxes dotted around town with more to come throughout 2017.
Anyone looking to sponsor a box should get in touch here.
Bill O’Herlihy
Karen Underwood
Karen Underwood
Tribute to the Cork-born Mary Elmes who worked as a humanitarian during the Spanish Civil War and WW2, saving hundreds of children in Vichy Franc from Nazi concentrations camps.
A nice moment as we were painting this tribute when we met Wayne Elmes (great grand nephew of Mary) who happened to be passing by! Wayne is on the left of the pic with Kevin O’Brien
Collaboration with Our Lady of Lourdes NS where the pupils took part in a competition organised by Cllr. Kieran McCarthy to design artwork for a box in the Mad About Cork style which we then painted in their locality.
Collaboration with Our Lady of Lourdes NS where the pupils took part in a competition organised by Cllr. Kieran McCarthy to design artwork for a box in the Mad About Cork style which we then painted in their locality.
Ellen Hutchins died at 29 but made a great contribution in the field of botany – identifying, collecting, and even illustrating hundreds of plant specimens
Rory Gallagher – Sponsored by Cork City Library
‘Feens & beors love the taste… Tanora’
‘Feens & beors love the taste… Tanora’
Boxes painted by the on Grattan St
Boxes painted by the on Grattan St
Agnes Mary Clerke – Sponsored by Blackrock Castle Observatory. Clerke, an astronomer in the 19th century, is the only Corkonian with a crater on the moon named after her.
Sponsored by ACET, Wellington Place
Sponsored by ACET, Wellington Place
Rebel Rebel – Perkin Warbeck
Warbeck is the reason why Cork became known as the rebel city after he duped Corkonians into believing he was of in line to the English throne in the 15th century.
Cork Samaritans Collaboration
Maggie Barry quote
Tribute to famed folk singer and one of Cork’s hardiest characters.
Cillian Murphy
Cillian Murphy
Decorative boxes on Brian Boru St
Cork Samaritans Collaboration #2
Cork Samaritans Collaboration
North Main St
Painted electrical boxes on Union Quay
Cork Samaritans Collaboration
Cork Samaritans Collaboration #1
Mad About Cork Logo
Cork Samaritans Collaboration
Taylor Swift throwing shapes to The Frank & Walters
Taylor Swift throwing shapes to The Frank & Walters
Mad About Cork logo
King Joffrey
The O’Donovan brothers
Decorative boxes on Camden Wharf
Cope Foundation Collaboration
Cope Foundation Collaboration
Parnell Place boxes
Grattan St
The Barrack St Boy, Daniel Florence O’Leary
The Barrack St Boy, Daniel Florence O’Leary
Ashling Thompson Tribute
Ashling Thompson Tribute
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