Up Cycling!
The Glucksman and Cork Midsummer Festival present new public artworks highlighting the importance of cycling by celebrated Irish Illustrator Chris Judge.
We invite you to get on your bike and explore Up Cycling! an ambitious new trail of public artworks by celebrated Irish Illustrator Chris Judge that runs across Cork city. The temporary artworks created for Cork Midsummer Festival showcase the importance and joy of cycling in urban spaces. Commissioned by The Glucksman and curated by Tadhg Crowley, the project is a collaboration between the artist and Cork Cycling Campaign that involved a public consultation which helped shape the design and message behind the artworks.
Chris Judge is an illustrator, artist, and children's picture book author from Dublin, Ireland. Since 2011 Chris has written and illustrated over 35 children's books, many of which are in collaboration with authors like Roddy Doyle, David O'Doherty and Eoin Colfer. His first book, The Lonely Beast won the Specsavers Irish Children's Book of the Year 2011. Chris also creates large-scale artworks, including murals, installations, and wood-cuts.
