Transition in Tradition is an ongoing dialogic artistic research project by Martin Travers exploring how Indigenous artistic and cultural traditions in Nepal are adapting within rapidly changing contemporary realities. Through long-term collaboration with communities across Nepal, the project examines how…
Of Struggles and Dreams: A Homage to the People of Nepal In August 2015, following the devastating earthquakes that struck Nepal earlier that year, I presented a series of paintings titled: Of Struggles and Dreams: A Homage to the People…
This photo story documents my experience of the devastating earthquake that struck Nepal in April 2015. Earlier that month, I had arrived in Kathmandu after being accepted onto an artist residency at the Kathmandu Contemporary Art Center, excited to begin…
Mural Project with Women from the Indigenous Tharu community In 2010, I was invited to facilitate a community mural workshop with a group of Indigenous Tharu women from a rural village in Bardiya, western Nepal. The women, collectively known as…
The “Three Artists Three Cities” project is a Dutch-funded international cultural exchange and urban street art initiative bringing together three artist, Martin Travers, Benjamin Benrakad and Mohammed Ali. The program featured collaborative mural-painting and community engagement tours linking cities like…
In 2012, I travelled to Casablanca, Morocco, to take part in a community mural project alongside Mohammed Ali and Benjamin Benrakad as part of the first Three Artists, Three Cities collaboration. We were invited to create a mural in Hay…
Mural of Hope – Sparkbrook, Birmingham (2011) I was invited by artist Mohammed Ali to travel from the Netherlands to Birmingham to collaborate on a mural in Sparkbrook, the neighbourhood where he grew up. At the time, parts…
In Martin Travers’ new exhibition entitled ‘Journeys through struggles and dreams’ he explores the classic notion of ‘what doesn’t kill you simply makes you stronger.’ Through a series of journeys on public transport around the world Martin found inspiration for…
New book out by the folks at Precita Eyes called “Street Art San Francisco Mission Muralismo”. It’s edited by Anice Jacoby with a nice forward by the man himself, Carlos Santana. My mural is among the many great works of…
The Mural I painted in San Francisco’s Mission District, Balmy Alley, entitled “New Dawn” is being used by the New York Times in an ad campaign aimed at the “Bay Area”. So it’s up on billboards in the BART …
