With little else to do, I started sketching things in bed. The nurses would ask me to draw things for them. Just before Christmas in 1976, after spending six years in prison, Danny was released. By 1981, with the Hunger Strike under way, murals began to appear across the North. Danny quickly took to the new medium, which blended artistic vision with political and social issues.
Murals are a part of the voice of the community . . .
Rain pours down outside. Danny lights another cigarette. Our medium is the only similarity. Their message is about triumphalism and promoting sectarianism. Yes, there has always been sectarianism.