Why the creator of stunning Cork hurling mural had to quit the game he loved 

Dublin-based painter and graffiti artist ACHES tells Colm O’Connor about his GAA background and how he produced a towering mural of a hurler on a Cork City building.

Work on a gable wall mural of a hurler in action, at South Terrace/ Anglesea Street, Cork. The work by Dublin artist 'ACHES' is part of the new art initiative Ardú. The massive mural is expected to be completed early next week. Picture: Larry Cummins

Q: Given this is your first time in the Irish Examiner sports section perhaps it might be good to tell us about yourself?

A. I'm an artist from Dublin that goes by the name Aches. I started painting walls in 2007 and since 2015 I have been painting large-scale work in Ireland and abroad. I also work in the studio focusing on smaller pieces on canvas and have shown work in multiple galleries across Europe and in the USA. My work focuses around the digital age and its influence on us as a society. I use red, green and blue as my primary colour palette, also known as RGB, which are the three primary colours of the additive colour theory, which are the three colours that make up LED screens. As humans we see colours in red, green and blue values. When all three colours are added together they create white and when the values of each colour is tweaked, it produces every colour that is visible to the human eye.