SINCE SUMMER 2015, Dublin’s traffic light control boxes have undergone a bright and colourful transformation.
What were once grey rectangles that blended into the city’s background have been turned into works of art that brighten Dublin’s streets one stroke of colour at a time.
Behind the work is Dublin Canvas, a community art project “intended to bring flashes of colour and creativity to everyday object in the greater County Dublin area.”
The Dublin Canvas website describes the initiative aptly: “Less grey, more play”, with each transformed box “making Dublin a more beautiful place to live, work and visit.”
Last January, we shared a selection of the boxes from around the capital. Twelve months on, the project has continued to grow, with some 350 boxes dotted around Dublin’s four main councils.
Project Coordinator at Dublin Canvas David Murtagh told TheJournal.ie that there will be a new callout made in the coming months for the summer ’19 boxes, with the hopes of an additional 75 boxes being created and 25 boxes from 2015 being repainted.
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