The Walls Project – Community Mural
The Walls Project – Community Mural
The Walls Project
The Walls Project is a dynamic creative arts agency and social enterprise specialising in large-scale street art and community engagement initiatives. Best known for its internationally renowned Waterford Walls Street Art Festival, now entering its 11th year, the organisation has flourished since its formal incorporation as a CLG in 2018.
With a wealth of experience in both community-driven projects and public art commissions, The Walls Project excels at harnessing mural arts as a powerful tool for community engagement and access to the arts. Their team is highly skilled in facilitating participatory and collaborative projects at local, national and international levels, fostering co-creation between artists and community members to produce meaningful and impactful artworks.
Recent high-profile projects include collaborations with local authorities such as the DLR Anseo series for Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown County Council (2021 to 2025), New Ross Walls, the Medieval Ferns Experience, and Tipperary Town Revitalisation Projects. Additional murals have been created in cities and towns across Ireland, including Portlaoise, Belfast, Kerry, Cork, Galway, and Westport.
In 2024, The Walls Project celebrated the 10th anniversary of the Waterford Walls festival which saw 55 murals painted across Waterford City over the course of 10 days in August.
Project Details
Artists: Magda Karol and Gabriel McGuinness
The Walls Project worked with local community members, and Virgin Mary Girls’ National School to create a beautiful community climate action mural.
They held two workshops, bringing together a number of local community groups to discuss environmental challenges and their impact on the area. These discussions will aimed to amplify local voices, spark new ideas, and promote climate action.
The insights and creative ideas gathered from these workshops was used to create a mural brief inspired by the community’s vision. The mural was painted by artist Magda Karol on a wall outside Virgin Mary Girls’ National School in Ballymun, and workshop participants picked up some spray cans to help!
By involving community members at every stage, this project fostered engagement, collaboration, and a shared sense of purpose.
The final mural serves as a visual representation of the community’s commitment to climate action and justice, while inspiring ongoing conversations and action around sustainability.
It can be seen just to the left of the Axis building and beautifully brightens up a previously grey wall. We encourage you to pay a visit and see how great it looks.