This piece of street art by Zabou (ig) on the old Telegraph offices, painted for HTN24, is about 50 feet/16 metres tall, dwarfing Alice Pasquini’s Glide and BUST’s piece of neo-pop at the corner of Royal Avenue and Donegall Street.
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In the myth of ‘The Pied Piper Of Hamelin’, the piper leads the children away from the village of Hamelin after the mayor there refuses to pay him for charming away their rat infestation. The piper takes his revenge and only the lame child, the deaf child, and the blind child survive to tell the tale. (Here is Browning’s poetic version, along with 30 other references.)
This piper at Holy Trinity primary school (web) and St Martin’s nursery (web) in Turf Lodge might be thought to be leading them away from their parents and into school, but as the final image makes clear, they are on their way to a cavern underground.
The source for the mural is perhaps the painting at The Palace Hotel, in San Francisco (WP).
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This piece is on the same office-building as the ‘Be Your Best’ piece featured previously (in Auld Cobblers) at the city-side entrance to east Belfast, at the junction of Middlepath Street and Newtownards Road. Both are by Dee Craig/Belfast Mural Arts (Fb) as part of East Belfast Enterprise’s (web | ig) ‘Connecting Communities Through Art’ initiative. The two works were officially launched together on April 20th (pics on EBE’s Instagram). The two in-progress shots (last below) are from April 16th.
According to this Community NI article, the work has been installed using “a jigsaw-like technique using super strength glue to give it a lifespan of up to 25 years before requiring maintenance”.
Interpretations of the new piece are encouraged; feel free to comment or e-mail.
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Here is a gallery of three waves of painting (24 pieces) from the Project 24 space (Spectator) on Queen’s Parade, Bangor. From top to bottom, the images are from late March, the bank holiday at the start of April, and mid April. (The wall was also painted in January – see Stop Ruining Art.)
Above is a self-portrait by artist Jossie Pops (Johnny Hamilton) (ig) who also painted the portrait of actor Gerard Butler immediately below. Shortly, after, RickyDrewAPiccy added a piece between these two – a robot with the words “Don’t drink flat whites. Don’t wear massive coats. Don’t be a robot.” (Fb) – but it was quickly replaced by the Codo heads (under ‘April 7th’, below).
Good Boys by Ana Fish (ig)
Seahorse by ?
Quest Love by Chop Suey (ig)
Utility box painted by Codo (ig)
April 7th
Bananas 4 You and How About This For Art by ?
Fish by HMConstance (ig)
Octopus by Cha Cha/Carla Hodgson (ig) (see previously her 2021 octopus in This Is Not The Same As Other Days)
Witch by Ana Fish (ig), replacing Jossie Pops’s self-portrait
Heads by Codo (ig)
[Gerard Butler remains untouched]
Sleeping Dog by Jo Pearson (ig) replaces Ana Fish’s Good Boys.
Groundskeeper Willie (from The Simpsons) by ?
Dandelions by Imogen Donegan (ig)
Surfer by Soaring Tides (ig)
“Love” by Benjomac (ig)
All-Seeing Eye by Dara Condon (ig)
The Caterpillar by ?
A utility box painted by Codo (ig)
April 21st
Orangutan by ?
Writing by ? replaces Dandelions
Captain Pikachu by ? replaces Surfer
Wide shot. The gable on the left is Ward Park 3 by Friz.
“Keyto 2024” Penguin and Luxo Jr by Keyto (ig).
Which Keyto then replaced with this piece:
Dory by Keyto
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These images are from the Ravara Centre in Bangor. The cartoon characters (above) are probably by PENS (ig).
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Here is a selection of street art in Limavady/Léım An Mhadaıdh/”Leap of the dog” including, above, a leaping dog by London artist irony (ig).
Below, in order, are a pangram illustration by KVLR (ig), musicians by Claire Prouvost (ig), a jazz band by Matthew Knight (ig), a goat by Visual Waste (ig) for the Stendhal Festival (web), and a mental health piece by Peaball (ig).
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Life Hack (Xitter) is a youth project in Creggan, Derry, based in the Ráth Mór centre on Bligh’s Lane. In addition to this long telescoping eye around the Westway Roundabout (with Peaball (ig)), its members were also involved in painting the pillars at the lower entrance to Bishop’s Field/Gort An Easpaıg – see the final image, below.
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These nature scenes in the grounds of Holy Child primary, in Creggan, were painted by RAZER (ig) as part of the Graffiti On The Wall initiative.
See Visual History 11 for other pieces from the initiative.
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Here is a gallery of images from the lane leading to the houses from behind the Creggan shops, with a mixture of the old (anti-drugs) and new (flowers) pieces.
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