Munster in 30 Artworks, No 6: Magda Karol, Waterford Walls

Waterford Walls has led the way for street art in Ireland, and proved to be a much-needed good-news story for a city that had faced some tough times 

Magda Karol, Waterford Walls

Magda Karol is one of the scores of artists who have contributed to Waterford Walls, the annual festival of street art that has seen the completion of over one hundred murals since its foundation in 2015. Karol came on board the following year, and has produced a new public mural for the festival every year since.

“My favourite is one of a girl with a hat on, with the moon in the background, that I painted on the wall of a small electric-green house opposite the graveyard on the New Ross road,” she says. “I had never painted a mural before I got involved with Waterford Walls, and I did this one in 2018. I think I’d gotten more confident in my abilities by then; I’d gotten more used to working with spray cans and colour.”