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Daily Mail
20-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Daily Mail
'Irish Banksy' Fin DAC teams up with top Ibiza nightclub, creating stunning 30ft mural
World-renowned street artist Fin DAC has lent his magic touch to James Hype and MEDUZA's much-anticipated 'Our House' summer residency at Hï Ibiza - the club recently crowned the world's number one for the fourth consecutive year. The collaboration has seen the artist create original artworks, limited edition prints, and a towering 30ft mural on the side of the club itself. The mural, titled 'Ultra', features one of the artist's signature masked female figures and now looms large over the queues of clubbers lining up to enter Hï Ibiza's flagship venue, The Theatre. As part of the creative partnership, four of Fin DAC's characters - Delta, Ultra, Exciter, and Violater - will front the campaign for the residency, which runs weekly on Monday nights throughout June to September. James Hype and MEDUZA, two of the most in-demand names in electronic music, will also be debuting some futuristic concepts as part of the residency. Italian house music collective MEDUZA will showcase their hybrid-live format MEDUZA3, while James Hype introduces SYNC, a high-energy DJ set that directly controls and responds to visual effects via advanced MIDI technology. Fin DAC's contribution includes limited edition prints of each character, with only 50 copies of each image being released via West Contemporary Editions. Every print is hand-signed, numbered, and features a unique tattoo and artist logo. Speaking about the collaboration, Fin DAC cited the influence of late '80s and early '90s club culture and design. He said: 'In fashion, everything tends to be on a 30 year cyclical trend, this was what I had in mind when approaching these artworks for Our House. My own experience of the late '80s and early '90s was as an avid clubber/DJ in the UK with numerous annual trips to The White Isle to lap up as much as I could of that scene. 'You could say my life was music, fashion and art/design... all the elements that I wanted to embed in this project. 'Nightclub flyers of that era featured artists like Jason Brooks heavily and so I definitely wanted the attitude of his ladies to come across in my own artworks. 'When undertaking the preliminary designs, I also named each individual character after a Depeche Mode album: a band who got bigger and bigger throughout the late '80s and early '90s and have a been a permanent in my life since my early teens. Those names aren't public knowledge but still for me they grounded the artworks in the period I was reimagining. 'Stylistically the artworks are a blend of two distinct periods of my art life: a monochromatic style that I emerged with as an artist and a neon style that I first started doing in 2021. The merging of colourful/neon graphic backgrounds and a spitting style of monochromatic spray paint (with an addition of club style lighting) seemed perfect' The project is the result of a joint effort between Club Class Music Management and art consultancy agency West Contemporary, combining top-tier music programming with immersive art direction. According to MEDUZA, the experience begins before fans even enter the club, with Fin DAC's mural setting the tone: 'Welcome to Our House.'
National Geographic
23-04-2025
- National Geographic
Inside the Arizona city that's America's final frontier
The city of Tucson, Arizona, sits on America's southern border, surrounded by the cactus-strewn landscapes of the Sonoran Desert. Its present-day creativity draws on its Native American and Mexican roots, Spanish colonial heritage and Wild West frontier days. The Mission San Xavier del Bac dates back to the 1700s and depicts Tucson's Spanish-filled roots. Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor Story and photographs by Mark Parren Taylor This article was produced by National Geographic Traveller (UK). The Sonoran Desert region has been home to Apache and other Native American peoples for centuries, with Spanish colonialists, Mexico and the US fighting for land here in successive waves. In 1854, Mexico sold 30,000 sq miles of the desert to the US, and the border moved from north of Tucson to 60 miles south of it. Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor The desert is the greenest on the planet and sustains two of Arizona's three wine regions. One, Sonoita, is home to the Los Milics Vineyards winery. Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor The city, meanwhile, is a canvas for countless street artists, including London-based Fin DAC, whose mural Vergiss adorns the side of Charro Steak & Del Rey restaurant. Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor Tucson is home to some of the borderlands' best Mexican cooking. Seis Kitchen does fine breakfast burritos, while Boca serves nopales al pastor tacos — made with grilled prickly pear pads Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor The view through the saguaro cactus thickets along the 2.5 mile-long Bowen Trail — one of several paths through the mountains west of the city — reaches past Tumamoc Hill to downtown Tucson. Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor Hidden behind the hill, Sentinel Peak is a basalt mountain, after which the Tohono O'odham people named their original settlement, Cuk Son. At its base, Mission Garden is a living museum that explores the city's history through native flora, as well as plants, shrubs and trees introduced over the centuries from Mexico, Europe and Africa. The garden gets lively at weekends, with workshops, tours and traditional cooking events all taking place. Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor In the heart of downtown Tucson, the Hotel Congress has put up visitors since 1919 — including gangster John Dillinger, who was famously captured there by the FBI in 1934. These days the brave can stay in one of four allegedly haunted rooms, if they dare. Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor The city's architecture reveals Tucson's varied history, including the Spanish colonial Mission San Xavier del Bac, which dates to the 1700s; the Barrio Viejo's mid-19th century adobes; the 1930s warehouse district, home to much of Tucson's street art; and the contemporary University of Arizona in the north. Beyond the urban skyline, the Santa Catalina Mountains include the highest point in the region, Mount Lemmon (9,170ft), where locals ski in winter and hike in summer amid cool breezes. Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor On warm afternoons, some might head back to Mission Garden for a concert. In the frontier days of the 19th century, when Tucson was a stagecoach stop, people looking for entertainment would improvise with 'cigar-box banjos', recalled today by primitive handmade guitars. Photograph by Mark Parren Taylor Published in the April 2025 issue of National Geographic Traveller (UK). To subscribe to National Geographic Traveller (UK) magazine click here. (Available in select countries only). No Purchase Necessary. Ends 4/30/25 at 11:59pm ET. Click below for Official Rules.
