Bambie Thug poses with mural created by Limerick woman at EP
The painting was produced prior to the festival and measures twelve ft by eight ft
BAMBIE Thug made their debut at Electric Picnic recently and took time out from performing to view a mural depicting them created by Barbara Hartigan from Castleconnell.
Bambie took a photo with the mural and posted it on Instagram sharing a look at their experience at the festival this year. Barbara painted the large twelve ft by eight ft mural of this year's Irish Eurovision entry which was exhibited at the annual music festival in Stradbally, Co. Laois.
The Limerick woman painted Bambie Thug in a woodland, lit by moonlight. She was inspired by Bambie's performance at the International Eurovision competition.
Barbara said she made it "a little but controversial" because Bambie is non-binary. "There's this language that's going around with the younger generation about using the word 'they' rather than the words 'he' and 'she', and I thought that using that language, it's very hard for my generation to understand it and to use it," she explained.
As a result, Barbara incorporated the question, "where is they?" into the piece as a conversation starter. "It was just to evoke a conversation really more than anything else," she pointed out.
Barbara is very proud of the mural and the end result. "It was fun to do and very different to anything I've ever done before."