Work by English artist Philth (Phill Blake) in Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
The work-in-progress shots below are from May 4th and 1st.
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Joe Caslin (web) with a poem by Sean Watmore (web) entitled Mind Your Whisht: If lives you talk of are not your own/Whose actions don’t affect you//If existence causes you distress/Your own must be a virtue//Please heed the words my Grandad said/To those who judged another//’Mind your whisht’ and walk away/We’re all in this together.
In Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
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Work by English artist My Dog Sighs (web) in Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts), with a Belfast-specific reflection, including the Albert Clock and the gantry cranes Samson & Goliath; the child with an ice-cream is three-year-old Teddy, son of street artist Codo (ig).
My Dog Sighs also painted a smaller eye, reflecting the Sunflower Bar, in Kent St.
There is a small bonus piece featuring two “Quiet Little Voices” on a shutter to the left of the main piece.
work-in-progress May 2nd:
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Work (above) by Ana Fish (web) and (below) English artist Roo (web) in Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).
The “Danger 33,000 volts” sign is real – see Electrifying Footwork.
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This is a gallery of pieces from a HTN 2025 warm-up event at the Ulster Sports Club in High Street Court, with work by Niall OL (ig), Friz (web), Holly Pereira (web), FGB (web), Karl Fenz (web), Roo (ig), Shane Ha (web).
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Here are two paste-ups from illustrator and artist DEID (web) in Belfast city centre.
Above: “Be a bastard – tag yer local electrical box.”
Below: MAGA red-hats with an upside-down Stars And Stripes bring to mind David Bowie’s 1997 song “I’m afraid of Americans” (youtube).
There are more DEID stickers and paste-ups in the Seosamh Mac Coılle collection.
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For Recycle Week 2021 (WRAP), Laura Nelson (ig) and Leo Boyd (web) installed a series of seven pieces (each a combination of sign-writing and paste-up) on the abandoned Fanum House, using CO2-absorbing paint (from Graphenstone) and a potato-based glue for the paste-ups. “A revolution in recycling!”
The X-Wing Land-Rover was a later addition, on top of one of the original paste-ups.
Great Victoria Street and Ventry Street, Belfast city centre
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The Bank Of Ireland building at the junction of North Street and Royal Avenue was purchased by the City Council in 2021 (Business Insider) with the intention of turning it into a visitor attraction called ‘Belfast Stories’ by 2030. The latest step in the process was a period of public consultation (BelTel). In the meantime, Leo Boyd (web) has taken over the boarded-up space that previously housed the ATM with an image of space invaders hovering over the building.
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UNI Europa (web) returned to Belfast in March (2025) for its 6th annual conference with an emphasis on collective bargaining and defending democracy (reports: Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3).
This new mural is in the alley next to the ICTU building (and Jim Larkin statue/mural) in Donegall Street Place, replacing the Civil Rights board.
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Hit The North returns this weekend with more than fifty street artists painting in the city centre (Seedhead Arts). The main painting session will be on Sunday between 2 and 6 around the Sunflower bar at the junction of Union Street and Kent Street.
As an apéritif many local artists painted on the “Belfast Stories” hoarding along North Street in mid-April. Shown here are the fifteen pieces produced, from left to right/north to south, by …
Conor McClure (ig)
Lost Lines (ig)
Ana Fish (web)
Wee Nuls (web)
Zippy (web)
Kerrie Hanna (web)
HMC (web) who painted Shiela the elephant, who was also the subject of a piece by DanLeo
FGB (web)
Katriona (web)
Illoustrates (ig)
Jacky Sheridan (web)
All The Doodz (ig)
KVLR (web)
Kilian (ig)
Graffic Belfast (ig)
For the previous art on these hoardings, see ‘Bout Ye?
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