This is the mural painted by UVArts (web) to accompany the About Us film exhibition that visited London-/Derry in March, showing life from the Big Bang until the present day, commissioned by Unboxed.
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This is the second mural in Derry to Sister Clare Crockett. The first was in her Brandywell home (see All Or Northing!!) while this one is in Shantallow. Crockett became a nun in 2001 and died at the age of 33 in an earthquake in Ecuador in 2016 – the mass for the seventh anniversary of her death was held last month (youtube).
A documentary film about Crockett’s life is available on youtube.
Painted by Razer (ig) in Racecourse Road, Shantallow, Derry.
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Here is a gallery of images from the ‘Get Up’ paint jam, organised by Peaball (web) in Derry at the end of June as part of the Foyle Maritime Festival (ig).
In order (from top to bottom), there are three in Strand Road, from emic (web), KONE (ig), and ACHES (ig), five in Lower Clarendon Street, by RAZER (ig), Chose Letters (ig), Will Vibes (ig), Friz (web), DanLeo (web), and finally, three by Zippy (web) at The Lounge café in Clarendon Street.
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Tillie & Henderson’s shirt factory opened in 1856 at the junction of Abercorn Road and Foyle Road, Derry (next to the ‘Hands Across The Divide’ statue) and survived until 2003 when it was demolished after a fire (BBC); an apartment block was planned for the site (Derry Journal | BBC) but as yet nothing has happened. It was the largest such factory in the world and one of 44 shirt factories in the city in 1900, all of which employed women, many starting in their teens.
Derry Of The Past has a gallery of historical images.
The murals are in the courtyard of the Craft Village in Shipquay Street; they were designed by Joe Campbell and painted by UVArts (web).
See also: Derry Women Make Communities
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Ireland’s most famous export is not its music – including Fontaines D.C. (web) – or its stout – including Guinness – but its people, about 10 million of them since 1800 (WP). The youngster in this new mural by Dublin artist ACHES (ig) is torn in different directions.
Queen’s Quay, Derry.
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“Fáilte go dtí Brandywell [Tobar An Bhranda]” This mural featuring the rights of children was painted in Derry’s Brandywell area in 2014; it puts images alongside parts of Caroline Castle’s rendering of the UN’s Rights of the Child. One, for example, reads “Understand that all children are precious. Pick us up if we fall down and if we are lost lend us your hand. Give us things we need to make us happy and strong and always do your best for us whenever we are in your care. Right no. 3”.
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“This mural is one part of a community led project by Hive Cancer Support and Ulster University [web]. It was designed and painted by Peaball street art collective [web] based on the findings of an Ulster University research study [UU | Derry Now] commissioned by Hive Cancer Support that looked at the mental health impact of cancer surgery. We want to thank all those who took part weer willing to tell their personal story to help create this piece. The singular sunflower looks at each individual journey and the focus and determination to look to the light in dark times. It also represents the innovative air purifying paint [Hypo Air] used on this mural. The vase illustrates the Japanese art of Kintsugi- repairing pottery with gold making it stronger and more beautiful that before. The healing golden seams become part of the beauty and history of the object, to be appreciated rather than disguised. Cancer does not discriminate. Many homes around the world have been affected in some way- the window is a representation of this. The project was made possible through funding from The Ideas Fund.”
Strand Road, Derry
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This leafy – but fading – street art on the upper facade of the Brickwork bar in Magazine Street, Derry, dates back to 2018.
Painted by UVArts (web).
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For many years there were portraits of the hunger strikers (either the 10 deceased from 1981 or the 12 from the 70s and 80s) along the long wall in Bishop St Without – see 2009, 2004, and 1998 (before that time the wall was divided into a number of panels for a variety of republican imagery – see 1984 and 1982) but in the portraits – which were on boards – soon started coming off and over the next decade the wall began to fade and become covered in graffiti (as can be seen in Street View). For the 40th anniversary, the deceased hunger strikers were restored to the wall, as shown here. From the info board (to the left of Sands’s head): “Cuımhníonn Doıre: 40th anniversary of the 1980-1981 hunger strikes. Rededication of mural, by the Bogside and Brandywell Monument Committee.”
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