Lídia Cao (ig), an artist from the Galicia area of Spain (ISSA), was in Belfast for HTN24, painting a large piece in Talbot Street, next to DanK’s Blurry Eyed and replacing Sabek’s Conflict.The Last Thing To Lose Is Hope
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Jordanian artist Dalal Mitwally (web) was in Belfast for HTN24, painting a large piece in Talbot Street which has signs reading “Danger 33,000 volts” on the wall – marking a Belfast council electricity sub-station.
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This piece of street art by Zabou (ig) on the old Telegraph offices, painted for HTN24, is about 50 feet/16 metres tall, dwarfing Alice Pasquini’s Glide and BUST’s piece of neo-pop at the corner of Royal Avenue and Donegall Street.
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Here are images of signage in the courtyard of the Dark Horse (web) in tribute to Derry band The Undertones, whose 1978 single ‘Teenage Kicks’ begins with the line “Teenage dreams, so hard to beat …” . The sign uses the same font as the original writing by TDS under the Bridge End flyover that was put up when John Peel died, in 2004, (see J2426), and restored in 2015 (see Teenage Dreams Never Die). The signatures, from left to right, are of band members Dee O’Neill, Michael Bradley, Billy Doherty, John O’Neill, F[eargal] Sharkey.
The wide shot shows ‘Teenage dreams’ at the very top of the wall, above the cycle telling the story of the Conservative Party leadership contests involving Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak (see Ship Of Fools) (plus Nigel Farage presiding over Sweet Rockall), and on the bottom level, the open windows of Belfast Stripped Bare (the Undertones are referenced in the Snow Patrol panel, third from the right in the top row – see Teenage Dreams for a close-up) plus, on the right, six of the panels from the series The Friend At Hand. All of the painted pieces are by Ciaran Gallagher
See also The Undertones in Derry: The Punk Of The Parish | Creggan Is My Home
Bonus image, last below: Belfast punk band Stiff Little Fingers on the opposite wall in the courtyard.
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Here are two paste-ups by Leo Boyd (web) in Belfast city centre. The PSNI land-rover is a familiar subject – see Off The Ledge in the Seosamh Mac Coılle collection for a list.
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This is a poster by English artist JoLA (ig), who specialises in magpies. This one has pilfered a string of pearls. “I fucking love this place.”
Union Street, Belfast
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This face is by Birmingham graffiti artist Fum.Armada (ig), in Union Street, Belfast. There is another from North Street in the Extramural Activity collection.
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Street art on corrugated metal panelling in the waste-ground on Union Street, Belfast city centre.
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‘Solidarity today, solidarity everyday [every day]”. International politics makes a rare appearance in the city centre: support for the Palesitinians in Gaza – now under attack from Israeli forces for 116 days (Al Jazeera) takes the place of pieces by Conor McClure and All The Doodz.
See also: Ukraine Has Suffered Enough.
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