This painter on horseback is a third recent piece by Leo Boyd (web) that is set in urban streets in the moonlight, alongside Pints! Pints! Pints! and Pink Moon Gonna Get You All.
This one is in Shaftesbury Square, Belfast.
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Here are three boxes in a row in Ann Street, with a toast to city-centre revellers by Zippy (web). For more city centre boxes, see Pink Moon Gonna Get You All, and for more on the painting of boxes in Belfast, see the Visual History page.
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Here is a selection of city centre electrical boxes, painted as part of the Belfast Canvas project, which first recruited artists to paint electrical boxes in 2019. For more on the painting of boxes in Belfast, see the Visual History page.
Above, Create – KinMx (web) – High Street.
Below:
Flowers In Hair – Emily Nayhree (ig) – High Street
Grim Reaper – ? – Gordon Street
Pink Moon Ghost Painter – Leo Boyd (web) – Dunbar Link
Band – David McMillan (web) – East Bridge Street
Murmuration – S Majury (web) – East Bridge Street
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Spring – or at least some dry days – is upon us, and with it the chance to get outside. This is a new piece by FGB (web) on the shutters of what was Quality Life massage parlour, in a row of mostly abandoned shop-fronts in (upper) North Street.
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This spring ArtsEkta (web) will launch “Olive Tree House” as a new cultural hub in Belfast city centre with meeting-, studio-, and gallery-spaces. The name is a return to the original name of the building, used from 1958-2014, after which time it has been known as “Concentrix House” (Future Belfast) – Concentrix moved to Maysfield in 2017 (Concentrix). The building’s facade has been painted with olive trees by Zippy (web).
Fountain Street, Belfast
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Paper x Clips (web) – providing queer books and haircuts, and also hot drinks – moved into its new North Street digs in November (2024) and to go with the renovations and re-opening had the shutters to the shop painted by Zippy (web) with the genderqueer symbol between barbed-wrapped daisies and linked chains.
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Work by RAZER (ig) and NOYS (ig) of Peaball (web) at the Bullitt hotel/bar in Belfast city centre. With support from Seedhead Arts (web).
The final image is of a framed piece on the wall below these two, supporting Jameson whiskey’s “black barrel” variety (web).
Also at Bullitt: work by David McMillan in the alley-way and work by Rob Hilken on the Church Lane frontage.
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Planning for a statue in honour of blues guitarist Rory Gallagher goes back to 2016 (BBC) and the project finally came to fruition this month, January 2025. The sculpture repays the devotion that Gallagher showed Belfast during the Troubles, playing there at least once a year. The sculpture is entitled “On the boards” after the second album by the band Taste, released in 1970, the same year in which Gallagher left the band to pursue a solo career. The photograph that inspired the sculpture – of Gallagher on stage at the Ulster Hall – appeared on the cover of Melody Maker in 1972. (WP)
The statue was produced by Anto Brennan (web), Jessica Checkley (web) and David O’Brien (web) and can be seen in Bedford Street, outside the Ulster Hall. There is also a statue of Gallagher in Ballyshannon, where he was born.
See also: Brennan’s statue of QEII and corgis in Antrim.
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This new piece from Belfast One BID is full of literary references (web). The blackberries (top left of the image above) are perhaps for Seamus Heaney, and the kites (bottom right of the image above) are perhaps for John Hewitt. Comment/Get in touch if you can identify others.
Below the Linen Hall library in Fountain Street, Belfast city centre.
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This is a second piece of street art by Dan Kitchener (web) in Bank Square, next to his painting of fast cars (Fast Enough So We Can Fly Away?): a painting of Jesus Of Nazareth for Hope/Crown Jesus Ministries (web).
Replaces JMK’s The Whisper And The Wish.
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