Artists from France, London and Germany are among the first to be confirmed for the debut of the Nuart Festival in Aberdeen.
The Nuart festival is coming to the UK for the first time, a celebration of street art.
It will be held between April 14 and 16, and is usually held in Stavanger, Norway.
Artists already booked include Herakut, Julien de Casabianca and Robert Montgomery and the festival will include murals, installations, interventions, and temporary exhibitions.
There will also be a wide programme of activity including talks, presentations, film screenings, and workshops over the course of the Easter weekend.
The German artists Hera and Akut - Jasmin Siddiqui and Falk Lehmann - joined forces in 2004 under the name Herakut and both have roots in the grafitti scene.
French visual artist and filmmaker Julian de Casabianca is known for ‘The Outings Project’, which has involved him decorating streets around the world with portraits of characters plucked from classical paintings.
Robert Montgomery is originally from Scotland but has lived in London since 1999.
Montgomery showed at the 2011 Venice Biennale and was selected to represent the UK at the first biennale in India - The Kochi-Muziris Biennale - in December 2012.
The Nuart Festival in Stavanger consists of a series of citywide exhibitions, events, performances, interventions, debates and workshops surrounding current trends and movements in street art.
Adrian Watson, chief executive of Aberdeen Inspired, said: “We are hugely excited to be bringing an art festival of this scale and stature to Aberdeen. Nuart is hugely popular in its Stavanger birthplace and it is a huge coup for us to be holding it in our city.
"It is an honour to announce the first four incredibly talented and thought provoking artists that will be taking part in the festival. We are delighted that Julian de Casabianca, Robert Montgomery and Herakut will leave their artistic footprint in Aberdeen and look forward to announcing more names and additions in due course."
He added: "Nuart is an ambitious project and we are sure it will be embraced by the north-east public. We want to encourage community engagement, make art accessible to all and create talking points in the city, as well as, of course, brightening up neglected spaces in the city centre."
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