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UV Arts CIC was formed in April 2015 by a collective of graffiti and street artists in Derry/ Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The collective saw an opportunity to challenge the perceptions of space within communities in a post-Troubles segregated Northern Ireland, using graffiti and tagging as a tool to cross the political divide against a backdrop of traditional political murals.