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Kayley Hardiman, 23 Aug
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.
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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."