Holly Pereira
'Scarlet for your Ma'
New Street South, Dublin 8
2018
Dublin City Council
My work features a lot of Dublin sayings, such as this one "scarlet for your ma for having you". In rendering our own Irish slang in a graphically pleasing way, we reinterpret our own proud culture as a literary country in a new and modern way.
I graduated from NCAD in 2004 with a BA in Fine Art. I practised as a painter for 7 years with shows and residencies in Dublin, London, Berlin and Singapore. I moved to commercial illustration in 2011 and also returned to education to study animation in Ballyfermot. I set up my business in 2015