Three new pieces of street art were painted in Donegall Street as part of this year’s Hit The North. From top to bottom they are:
Two female faces by Woskerski, from London (ig).
An art-deco seahorse by Andy Council, from Bristol (ig)
A giant squirrel by ROA, from Ghent, Belgium (bio | ig archive).
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Here is a gallery of the new pieces from Hit The North 2023 on the south side of Kent Street (there is a separate post for the north side and there is a separate post for Kent Street above Union Street).
From left to right (top to bottom in this post), the art is by:
Friz (ig)
Annatomix (ig)
Cha Cha (ig)
CYD Noble (ig)
Ali-P (ig)
Kerrie Hannah (ig)
Saul Art (ig)
MWAK (ig)
Carly Wright (ig) + Sam McAleese (ig)
Kilian (ig)
Claire Prouvost (ig)
Holly Peirera (ig)
Myfanwynia (ig)
Leo Boyd (ig)
Novice (ig)
Codo (ig)
Danni Simpson (ig)
Chroma Chameleons (ig) + Sweetheart Streetart (ig)
FGB (ig)
HM Constance (ig)
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Here is a gallery of the new pieces from Hit The North 2023 on the north side of Kent Street (there is a separate post for the south side and there is a separate post at Paddy Duffy’s site for Kent Street above Union Street).
From left to right (top to bottom in this post), the artists are:
Zippy (ig)
Alana McDowell (ig)
Asbestos (ig)
Angry Dan (ig)
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Sufek West
Hallion – “Цe нaшe поле до біса” [this is our hell on earth] – a common description of the battle for Bakhmut by Ukranian soldiers (AP | France24 | CNN); this was the last of several slogans painted by Hallion throughout the festival (tw)
RASK (ig) + STER (ig) + SUMS (ig)
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Here is another response to the coronation of King Charles last weekend: (above and last) a Lasaır Dhearg (web) tarp in north Belfast reading “Fuck King Charles”.
Compare previously: England’s Bloody Empire and Not Our King with May The King Live Forever and The Settlement Of The True Protestant Religion.
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Here is a poster version of Leo Boyd’s (ig) HTN2021 piece My First Paste Up.
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How’s about ye?! FGB (ig), Leo Boyd (ig), and KVLR (ig) added three pieces at the end of April to what is now the “Belfast Stories” construction hoarding. FGB’s piece, shown above, was inspired by the fact that the northern branch of North Street was called “Goose Lane” (tw) at the time of (Chichester’s) Belfast Castle, as herders headed through the north gate (see the map at Lennon Wylie).
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The Lagan river between Belfast and Lisburn was made navigable in 1763 after seven years of work. The remaining distance between there and Lough Neagh (and the coalfields of east Tyrone, which were connected to Lough Neagh and then Portadown and Newry) required a canal, which finally opened on January 1st, 1794. The were 27 locks on the route between Belfast and the lough, and horses walking on the tow-parth would pull the barges up river (WP | Lagan Valley | Lagan Navigation has photographs of horses at work). Horsey Hill was perhaps the site of stables in south Belfast; it is now the name of the alley that continues on towards the river from the Ukraine sunflower mural off Harrow Street in the Holylands.
Forward South Partnership/Connor McKernan’s video about the history of the Holylands, including Horsey Hill, can be seen on youtube.
Painted by Daniela Balmaverde (ig) and DMC. At the bottom of Horsey Hill, along the embankment, are Animals Two By Two.
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Happy sea creatures in blissful ignorance of their destinies as food. On the side of E Kou Xian (web) (lettering, top right) and the adjacent shop Hao Pin Wei (on the sailboat). Also in the street are Lee Foods and the Same Happy café. There is a QEII 70th jubilee mural on the side of the defunct Wai Kee restaurant.
Apsley Street in Donegall Pass, on the site of an old 36th Division board that went back at least to 1999.
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In the film Back To The Future, Doc Brown builds a time machine out of a DeLorean by adding a “flux capacitor”. In the second film in the series (IMDb), Doc and Marty take the DeLorean – now with a thruster and wheels that flip horizontally in order to act as jets – into the future (that is, 2015). The movie franchise has given a long life to a car that in practice was made – in Belfast – for only seven years (WP).
Street art by Glen Molloy in Corporation Street, Belfast.
Previously in Larne: Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines.
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If you don’t behave, you might end up like this person, whose punishment is to look at the street art in Union Street, outside the Sunflower.
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