Art has been central to ADW's life ever since he started dabbling with paintbrushes while still at school. After five years studying animation at college in Dublin, he moved to Britain to work for a computer games company. Within a few years, however, he had grown bored and disillusioned with the corporate grind of turning art into industry. A small cog in a big machine, ADW felt as though he was pawning his creativity to manufacture a vision that was not his own.

He quit his job and returned to the boomtown that was Dublin, where the creation of wealth had taken precedence over the creation of almost everything else. Once again, ADW jumped onto the carousel, taking a job as a graphic designer. And once again he felt detached - a bystander while his creativity was monetised by someone else.

Inspired by the freedom and deviance of the street art he saw every day on his way into the city, he began experimenting with stencils and spray paint - sometimes to express his frustrations, sometimes just for his own amusement. Soon afterwards, in 2008, the recession hit and almost destroyed the country. For ADW, who found himself out of work, the downturn brought liberation - it killed his livelihood, but breathed life into his art. He began creating street art full-time.

The wreckage of the economic collapse provides the backdrop for much of his work. Laced with satire and burnt by honesty, his pieces are often imbued with a dash of acerbic humour. With the city as his canvas, ADW tries to reflect the everyday hopes, fears and anger of the ordinary people of Dublin. He sees what they see, and he expresses it through his work.

What better way to poke the establishment in the eye than to send up the powerful with a piece of street art, combining beauty with belligerence?