About us

Graham Carew is from Kilkenny and a painter and mixed media artist. He works in acrylics and watercolour but also uses permanent markers, household paint, and aerosols to cover his surfaces with imagery and text, which run from rant to mythology to poetry to personal stories. 

He likes to paint birds, flowers and superheroes and sometimes altogether

He spent many years in Charlotte, NC, USA where 

He co founded Goodyear Arts, an innovative, nonprofit, artist-led  project that has artist residencies and events in underused buildings in Charlotte, NC, USA. 

He also co founded Wallpoems  A poetry-based nonprofit mural project, with more than 20 permanent painted walls and installations in Charlotte, NC, USA. 

Since July 2019 He has been based  The Artist in the Shop Window Project at Fogartys in Castlecomer Co Kilkenny Ireland

This is an artist in residence in the community project self-directed and acts as studio and gallery space.

He is currently working on a series of murals in the area and paintings of his very overgrown garden