A long garage wall (40+ metres) in Franklin Street Place (between Franklin St and James St South) has been brightened up by Visual Waste (web) with a variety of painted flowers.
October 23rd:
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Cherry blossoms growing out of wheelie-bins by emic (web) on the side of Fuel coffee on the Lisburn Road.
Osborne Park, south Belfast
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This painting of a person finding help in a book about how to find help within is by Friz (web) on the side of the Windsor Pharmacy, at the junction of Lisburn Road and Windsor Road, south Belfast.
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Youth follows age and west (Belfast) looks towards east in these black-and-white combinations of portraits and maps by emic (web) on the side of Belfast Woodfired Pizza in Lislea Drive, south Belfast (which does not appear in the maps).
With support from the Lisburn Road Business Association.
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Hazelbank (House) was blown up by the IRA in the 1970s (The Burn) and Macedon (House) was demolished after being closed in 1981 – their grounds became Hazelbank Park (History Hub Fb). The towers on the promenade by the shore provide a backdrop for this Lidia Cao (ig) street art on the Shore Road.
With Daisy Chain (web) and A&N borough council (web).
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This piece of street art is by emic (web) (with the “Friday Folk”, a social group for retired women (Volunteer Now)) in Killyleagh Street, Crossgar, County Down. It appears to show the transmogrification of driftwood and rock (in the left hand) into a bird (in the right hand). Get in touch if you can supply a reference or better interpretation.
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Here are four species of bird flying in convoy through Belfast city centre. From left to right we see dunlin, lapwing, godwit (above), and Arctic tern (below). The art was painted by Annatomix (web), with support from Daisy Chain (web), as part of the “Great Expectations” project from the Linen Quarter Business Improvement District (web).
Great Victoria Street, Belfast, adjacent to Belfast Has The Reason.
The in-progress shots, below, are from October and November, 2023.
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“‘Creativity, like society, thrives when the individual elements fit within a bigger picture’ – Ernest Hemingway”
There’s no record of this statement being written or uttered by Hemingway. Instead, it appears to come from Will Gompertz’s 2015 book Think Like An Artist (wikiquote gives “Creativity, like society, thrives when the individual elements fit within, and add to, a bigger picture.”).
Hope Street, Belfast city centre, on the side of the Ginger Bisto on Great Victoria Street.
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The grand opening of the Vault collective’s (web) new digs in the Shankill Mission took place on August 17th. In preparation for the event, the shutters were painted by (top to bottom, left to right on the street) Dragos Musat (ig), Katriona (web), FGB (web), and Rob Hilken (web), each putting their own spin on the word “VAULT”.
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