Ren By Gjengen (Clean City Gang) public opening

Fintan Magee's large-scale photorealist mural was the second collaboration between Nuart and Attende for their Social Inclusion Through Street Art project, aiming to raise awareness about marginalised groups through art.

Attende is a job training company specialising in finding strengths where others see weaknesses, promoting the message that everyone has an important role in society. The organisation allows people with different challenges to participate in working life on equal footing with others. Street art's inherently democratic nature and popularity made the collaboration a fitting form to tackle issues like this in an inclusive manner.

For the mural outside the popular concert venue Folken in central Stavanger, Magee chose to depict Yvonne and Ingebrigt from the so-called Clean City Gang. Every Monday to Friday, the group collects litter from the city streets — over two tons annually and ranging from discarded fast-food wrappers to cigarette butts and needles. Some of the group members have been doing this essential job for more than a decade.