Two by Leo Boyd (web | ig | Fb) in Donegall Street. Above, a machine head is “lost in simulation”; below, an ice-cream land-rover with “That’s nice, dear” on the side.
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Belfast city centre
Son Of Protagoras
MTO (Fb) was in Belfast for Culture Night 2014 and painted a large piece entitled “Son of Protagoras”. The ancient biographer Diogenes Laertius reports that Protagoras was driven from Athens and his books burned because he wrote that it was impossible to know whether or not the gods existed. On Fb, MTO adds a description of the Northern Irish “peace” lines, perhaps suggesting that religious adherence continues to be an enemy of peace: in his painting, a dove has been pierced by arrows bearing the cross of the Knights of Malta and the Latin cross.
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Donegall Street Street Art
Here are five in a row on Donegall Street, in Belfast city centre, plus one from the other side of the street. Above is a 2018 piece by Alice Pasquini called ‘Glide’. The others are by …
Bust (2022)
Glen Molloy (2017)
Glen Molloy (2020?)
Lobster Robin (2022)
StarFighterA (2015)
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Cut Off At The Knees
Seating under a roof has (unfortunately) been added in front of and below the Jim Larkin statue at the ICTU offices in Donegall Street Place. For images of the whole mural and statue of Larkin, see Till Labour Knows No Master.
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Conflict
Work by Spanish artist Sabek in Belfast city centre for Culture Night/Hit The North 2016.
For CNB15 he painted a spear and a snake. The piece is in Talbot Street next to Dan Kitchener’s Blurry Eyed.
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Blurry Eyed
Street art by English artist Dan Kitchener for CNB16. Streets are already blurry at night in the rain, but the title perhaps come from the fact that Dan started the mural at night right after flying in from London.
The piece is in Talbot Street next to Sabek’s Conflict.
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Respect
On the left, singer Aretha Franklin is quoted as saying, “We all require and want respect, man or woman, black or white. It’s our basic human right.”
Before he died (in 2005), Belfast-born soccer-player George Best (on the right) asked that people “remember me for my football” and the phrase became the title of a Best retrospective.
Glen Molly (ig) street art in Hill Street.
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Still Waters
Manchester’s Nomad Clan were in town for CNB17/HTN17 and painted the large wall outside the Dirty Onion in Hill Street, punning on local shipbuilders Harland & Wolff. There’s some video of the piece in progress in this CNN profile.
Hill Street, Belfast
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Ring Of Peace
The speech balloons that were added to the Ring Of Peace mural in Waring Street to advertise office space are still there, seven years later.
The bubbles read “Forget it, Muriel. I’m moving my business to CQHQ without you!” “Oh Jeff … It’s too close to the City Centre! I want to be with nature …”.
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The United Irishmen
Four paintings by Michael O’Neill were added in 2008 to Warehouse Lane with the redevelopment of the Four Corners buildings (BBC) (at the junction of Waring Street and Donegall Street) depicting scenes from the history of the United Irishmen: Wolfe Tone and the Muddlers; Henry Joy McCracken goes to the gallows; Russell, Bunting, and Mary Ann McCracken; Russell with the first edition of the Northern Star.
Warehouse Lane at the Waring Street end. See also: the Visual History page on the Belfast Entries.
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