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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Pintsman comes out after dark, under the moonlit sky, and tracks down the creamiest pints to be had in the city centre, one for each hand.

Work by Leo Boyd (web) in Lower Garfield Street, in the middle of Ollie Amscai’s rose from last May’s Paint Jam – see Garfield’s Street.

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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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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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