“I am … strong, focused, love, hope, caring, beautiful, body & mind.” M-Space is a project from Springboard Opportunities (web) providing intensive mental-health services for 115 young people.
This pair of utility boxes is on Royal Avenue, Belfast city centre. The backgrounds on the rear were perhaps painted during Culture Night.
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Belfast was designated a UNESCO “city of music” four years ago, in November, 2021. To mark the anniversary, Friz (web) and NRMN (ig) have painted this large piece of street-art in the guise of a VU indicator (with seven segments, nine levels, four colours). The city’s efforts to encourage music are outlined in the ‘Music Matters’ plan.
The other pieces in the wide shot can be seen in (l-r) Broken Promises, Glide, neo-pop face by Bust, Beastie Boys, Andrew Weatherall, two from the Subset collective, one of two faces from Woskerski.
on the side of the Telegraph offices in Donegall Street
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The Society Of United Irishmen – who hoped for French support for a rebellion in Ireland – could not meet openly while France and Britain were at war. In Belfast, meetings were held at Dr [Benjamin] Franklin’s tavern in Sugarhouse Entry, also called “Peggy Barclay’s” after its owner, under the guise of a social group called the Muddlers’ Club.
There is today a restaurant called The Muddlers’ Club, named after the society, in Warehouse Lane. The piece above shows a skull, a scythe, a pair of wings, and the Square & Compasses of the Freemasons (with a “G” for “God” or “geometry”). The second piece includes a skull, an eight-pointed star/compass, and an Eye Of Horus (familiar from Freemasons, the 1 dollar bill in US currency, and the Illuminati).
The piece on the left was painted by Visual Waste (web) in June, 2017; the one on the right was added later.
Two earlier pieces with similar imagery on the other side of the entry disappeared with the wall they were painted on: see God Approves Our Undertakings and The Wider Conspiracy.
See also the Visual History page on the Belfast Entries.
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The Morning Star (web) is a bar in Pottinger’s Entry that dates back – as a coach halt – all the way to 1810. (For a full history, see Lord Belmont.) This new mural, by Graffic Belfast (ig), features Guinness toucans flying over a variety of local landmarks.
See also: the Visual History page on the Belfast Entries.
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Here are pieces by Keyto (ig) and (another piece) by Critter (ig) on the legal wall in Little Patrick Street, Belfast city centre.
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In the first year that Culture Night Belfast included a public-art component (2012) – before “Hit The North” was the official title of the paint-jam – the idea was to paint some of the permanently-closed shutters in North Street. (Hence the name adopted from 2013 onward; “north” for “North Street” rather than “the North/Northern Ireland”.)
The central location for recent iterations of Hit The North has been Union Street and Kent Street around the Sunflower, but thirteen years later, the public-art component of the re-booted Culture Night returned to its ancestral home roots, with the four pieces of streetart (and one junction box) in North Street, where even more shops are shuttered than in 2012.
The works shown here are by Chain Gun Art (ig) (“Cheese, Please!”), Lost Lines (ig), Féoıl (ig), Rob Hilken (web), and Ana Fish (web). The Ana Fish piece is on shutters painted by Verz in 2012 – see North Street Will Rise Again.
Art was also produced on a hoarding in Garfield Street and on junction boxes (and one doorway) in Royal Avenue.
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Culture Night Belfast returned after a three-year hiatus and included a paint-jam in three locations: on junction boxes (and one doorway) in Royal Avenue (this page), on a hoarding in Garfield Street, and on shutters (and one junction box) in North Street.
The artist of the first box is unknown; the other pieces are by ?Rob Hilken (web)?, Danni Simpson (web), and Karl Fenz (web).
Other new/recent painted boxes in Royal Ave, but perhaps not part of CNB:
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