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HTN 2025 – Union Street

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Here is a gallery of pieces from Union Street, painted for 2025’s Hit The North street art festival (Seedhead Arts). From left to right (top to bottom in this entry), the works are by:

FESA (ig) from Munch
SNAK (ig)
Ona Salvador (web)
ADW (ig)
Molly Hankinson (web)
Kerrie Hanna (web)
(below Kent St)
Shane Ha (web)
Kayde (web)
Alana McDowell (ig)
Niall OL (ig)
NRMN (ig)
Keyto (ig)
Codo (ig)
Leo Boyd (web)
Conor McClure (ig)
KAYOS (ig)
JunkGraff (ig) + Sinead Crumlish (ig)
and, on the other side of the street, Sky High (ig)

May 1st:

work-in-progress May 3rd:

May 4th:

May 3rd:

Below Kent St:

May 1st:

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Mind Your Whisht

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Joe Caslin (web) with a poem by Sean Watmore (web) entitled Mind Your Whisht: If lives you talk of are not your own/Whose actions don’t affect you//If existence causes you distress/Your own must be a virtue//Please heed the words my Grandad said/To those who judged another//’Mind your whisht’ and walk away/We’re all in this together.

In Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts).

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The Ice-Cream Of My Eye

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Work by English artist My Dog Sighs (web) in Talbot Street for Hit The North 2025 (Seedhead Arts), with a Belfast-specific reflection, including the Albert Clock and the gantry cranes Samson & Goliath; the child with an ice-cream is three-year-old Teddy, son of street artist Codo (ig).

My Dog Sighs also painted a smaller eye, reflecting the Sunflower Bar, in Kent St.

There is a small bonus piece featuring two “Quiet Little Voices” on a shutter to the left of the main piece.

work-in-progress May 2nd:

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Newcastle Community Cinema

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“NCC” in the final image, below (of movie characters at the cinema), stands for Newcastle Community Cinema (web) which opened on Halloween night, 2009. The street art shown here is at the organisation’s current hall, in Main Street, home not just to movie nights but activities including martial arts and u3a. The pieces are by Friz (web), KVLR (web), and JMK.

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Street Dreams

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Here is a selection of painted junction boxes in Newry: “River Deep” is by Zippy (ig) and the theatre curtains and masks by FrankieB (ig); the sunflowers and forest are by HM Constance (web); Hold Tight is for PIPS (ig); In Newry We Trust is by JMK (ig); the three-person hug is by Friz (ig); Bród is by Frankie B (ig).

Locations: ‘Save the bees’ in Buttercrane Quay; ‘River Deep’ in Francis Street; ‘comedy and tragedy’ on Bank Parade; sunflowers and green portal in Cloghanramer Road.

For more, see Amplified Arts on instagram. With support from Newry, Mourne, And Down’s ‘Newry DEA Forum’.

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Carlingford Sunset

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Warrenpoint’s ‘Wake The Giant’ festival (web) returns this year (2025) on June 28th and 29th (programme), featuring a ‘parade of giants’ (puppets) on both days.

This street art was painted for last year’s (2024) festival on the boarded-up façade of the Osborne Hotel by English artist Faunagraphics (web).

Osborne Promenade, Warrenpoint

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