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The Going Is Good

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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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Garden Of Reflection

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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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Flying High

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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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A Bigger Picture

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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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Locked Vault

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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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Tunnel Vision

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Here is a gallery of the street art and wild-style writing painted in the tunnel at the redeveloped York Street Station (BBC), formerly Yorkgate Halt. Get in touch if you can supply any of the missing artists in the list below …

NOYS (ig)
KONE (ig)
JAM2 (ig)
Karl Fenz (ig)
SNAK (ig)
Kyle McGinley (ig)

WEB1 (ig)
emic (ig)
?emic?
NOKA (ig)
Friz (ig)
?BORE?
KVLR (ig)

Doodles by passers-by (with help from Anie Poole (ig))
Strangford (ig)
Lost Lines (ig)
?train
Cha Cha (ig)

Other side …

Outside Hoarding

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