Imelda May has been recognised by Dublin Canvas for her work in celebrating the living.
Dublin Canvas is an idea, a project intended to bring flashes of colour and creativity to everyday objects in the City, through the use of artwork.
Taking to Instagram, the singer announced that she now has a canvas done up in honour of her – which she was naturally all too thrilled about!
“I’m so honoured to be recognised by Dublin Canvas in celebrating the living…! Thank you so much,” she wrote before introducing her followers to Steve O’Toole, the artist who started the latest initiative.
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“Ireland is very good at commemorating & remembering our dead but we do little to celebrate our living,” shared Steve.
“There are blue plaques all over Dublin to remember and mark how Oscar was born here, Behan drank there, Joyce etc. and only in death Sinead, Shane and many many more are justly & rightly celebrated but whom in life were never given the accreditation they so rightly deserved.
“And so my Dublin Canvas submissions began last summer with ‘Pat Ingoldsby’s … Welcome To His Head … Complete with ‘Not Dead Yet’ Blue Plaque.
“Continuing this year with ’Imelda May … Mother of all the liberties… With accompanying ‘Liberties Belle’ Blue Plaque.”
Mother of all the Liberties is a nod to Imelda’s current role in the play Mother of all the Behans as well as a nod to the hierarchy and history of the women of the Liberties.
While the Liberties Belle reflects on both the proudly born Liberties Imelda and her own piece “Liberty Belle”.
“I cannot emphasise the outpouring of Liberty love & fondness for both Imelda and her family that has not only been expressed to me but also in turn extended to me by association,” Steve added.
What a lovely honour!
