'My mother showed me to take care of myself but I didn’t follow that for a lot of my life. I was a young man who didn’t learn about the spectrum of emotions, so I fell back on only one persona: the angry young man.' SarahCaden speaks to MaserArt:
Interview With A Man: Artist Maser on Pain, Paint and PeaceMaser is an artist with roots in graffiti, best known for his large-scale paintings and murals around the capital. His Repeal logo became the official emblem of the campaign to repeal the eighth amendment. Maser’s studio Atelier Now, in Dublin 8, is a 21st-century gallery and salon where young artists can create, exhibit and sell their work …I did. I struggled a lot with myself, but I was loved.
At school, it was as if they were always steering me away from art because it was a hobby, not a career. Art was considered a waste of time. Luckily for me, there was something that always steered me back to it. Art was like a companion. I saved money from a paper round to buy paint to do a mural, and I got into graffiti in my teens. I did a PLC [Post Leaving Cert] course after school.
“At the Dublin Boys Club, we don’t drink, there’s no banter. Guys tend to always try to problem solve, so we don’t do that. We just chat.”I have a frantic mind, which usually starts whirring at about 5am. I’ll have an idea and just get going. The more I take care of myself, I can get into that space a lot quicker. I had to take medication for a few years and that switched off the creative flow and the fear that it would never come back was terrifying.
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