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KATHRINA RUPIT
Mural Artist · Researcher ·
Co-Founder of Ik-Muluk
Art & Research Centre.
Working between Ireland and Mexico,
I create site-responsive public artworks that draw on local ecologies, cultural memory and collaborative making to foster dialogue across landscapes and communities.
Public art is the most visible expression of Kathrina Rupit's practice.
Working at architectural scale, her murals and site-responsive interventions transform shared spaces into places of encounter, where cultural memory, ecological thinking and collective imagination become part of everyday life.
Each project emerges through dialogue with its location, drawing on local histories, mythologies and communities to create artworks that feel rooted rather than imposed.
Rather than treating the mural as an image placed on a wall, Rupit approaches it as a public interface: a meeting place where people, place and the living world can reconnect.
Painting, drawing and installation provide a slower space for enquiry.
These works explore the ideas that later unfold across public space, folklore, migration, ecological relationships and the symbolic connections between people and place.
Working at an intimate scale allows questions to evolve through material experimentation, observation and reflection.
Together, these works form the quieter counterpart to Rupit's public practice, revealing the research, imagination and material curiosity that underpin her larger interventions.
The Practice
Every project begins with a relationship.
A relationship between a community and its landscape.
Between mythology and contemporary life.
Between traditional knowledge and scientific curiosity.
Between architecture and ecology.
Between one culture and another.
Working across public art, material research and participatory practice, Kathrina Rupit explores how these relationships shape the places we inhabit and how art can help restore them when they have been forgotten, fragmented or overlooked.
Her work has gradually evolved from creating images within the landscape towards creating conditions for new relationships to emerge: through murals, ecological research, regenerative materials and long-term artistic collaborations.
IK MULUK
An evolving artwork exploring how artists can build with, rather than simply draw from, the living world.
Co-founded by Kathrina Rupit and Joey Baker,
IK-MULUK is an artist-led research centre in the Mexican rainforest where public art, regenerative architecture and material experimentation converge.
Developed through bio-based construction, ecological research and international collaboration, the project investigates how artistic practice might contribute to more reciprocal relationships between people, place and the ecosystems that sustain them.
Every material carries a history.
Kathrina Rupit's material research investigates how pigments, minerals, plants, fungi and bio-based materials can become collaborators in the creative process rather than passive resources.
Drawing on both historical craft traditions and contemporary experimentation, her practice revisits processes that have shaped artistic making for centuries, from the preparation of natural pigments to slow, hands-on methods of working with the land. These techniques are valued not only for their material qualities, but for the different ways of seeing they cultivate: encouraging patience, close observation and a deeper awareness of the relationships between people, place and the living world.
In an age of accelerating production and consumption, this research offers an alternative rhythm of making one rooted in care, material intelligence and wonder.
Some of the most meaningful conversations begin before a wall is painted.
Working between Ireland and Mexico, Kathrina Rupit's international collaborations explore public art as a space for cultural dialogue.
Developed with embassies, municipalities, festivals and local communities, these projects create shared visual languages that connect people, places and traditions across borders.
Rather than representing culture, they seek to build relationships through the act of making together.
