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Hit The North 2023 – Kent Street

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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)
?TMN krew?
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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‘Bout Ye

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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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You Built A Time Machine … Out Of A DeLorean?

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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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From Dawn ‘Til Dusk

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Street art by Rob Hilken (web | ig) in High Street and Church Lane, Belfast.

“My mural on the corner of Church Lane and High Street is inspired by the businesses in the immediate area. The circle forms represent sun and moon, the sun rising and setting at the beginning and end of the day and the moon illuminating the night sky. The colour palette evokes sunrise and sunset, and the glamour of the local nightlife. The local businesses include cafes serving food from morning until night, bars where people socialise until the early hours, as well as barbers, hairdressers, nail bars, piercing studios and tattooists for the image-conscious crowds that inhabit the area. The mural aims to add to the identity of the area as somewhere where people go to socialise as well as enhance their own image.”

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