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The End Is Nai

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Here is a selection of paste-ups on the hoardings around the War Memorial building in Waring Street, inspired by Leo Boyd’s attempt to create an unofficial paste-up wall. (See Paste No Paste-Ups.)

The piece above relies on two homophones, “nai” (“now” in a strong Belfast accent) and “nigh”, and, “sigh” and “scythe”.

In addition to pieces by Boyd (web), there are works by Lazer Eyes (web) (“In the gears, the machine”), Codo (ig) (“Every test is a lesson; every lesson is a blessing”), Szu Szu Sign Co (ig) (“There will never be a border between us”), Dragos (ig) (Imagine Balkans creatures), and RickyDrewAPiccy (Fb) “The End Is Nai” and “Cranes – they’re everywhere. She’s got cranes on her walls … now she’s got cranes in her soul.”

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Ballymena Town Hall

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Here are two shutter paintings of bygone Ballymena: above is Ballymena Town Hall, which has been rebuilt on multiple occasions; pictured above are the hall in its present form, since 1918, and its previous incarnation.

Below is the view looking up Bridge Street, with the old town hall in the middle.

Both of these are on shutters in the modern Bridge Street. tThere are also shutters painted with Mill St, Ballymena.

The owl is in Church Street while the butterfly and nature pair are in Broughshane Street (at Blossom & Birch and The Venue).

The two commercial pieces (final two images, below) are by Sam McAleese for Ballymena BID (LoveBelfast). (For others, see Midtown Makers.)

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What’s The Quack?

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This is a second gallery of just some of the electrical boxes that have been painted in Newry in recent years, particularly 2024’s ‘Street Dreams’ initiative (web). (See previously Street Dreams.)

“What’s the quack?” and “Pure Class” are by Visual Waste (web), the boat made of harp and fiddle is by JMK (ig), the purple face, the covered wagon, and the draft-horse are by Friz (web), “looking at the stars” and “Queer to stay” are by FrankieB (ig), “Oh happy day” is related to the Choir Studio (Fb), and the boombox is by Aoife Gorman (ig).

For even more boxes, see Amplified NI (ig).

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Hit The Coast 2025

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34 images from this year’s Hit The Coast paint-jam in Larne. Here is a gallery of images from Hit The Coast 2024.

Critter (ig)

Melo (ig)

Wee Nuls (web)

Slak (ig)

NOL (ig)

Andy Council (ig)

Codo (ig) + Ohhi Ohno (ig) + Decoy (web) + Codo

Junk Graff (ig)

Ezra Pinkerton (ig) + Skinz (ig)

Zurdie (ig)

Papersleeve (web)

JMK (ig)

[Katriona Designs (web) – not included]

Kerrie Hanna (web)

Bláthnaıd Ní hAogáın (ig)

Zippy (web)

Ana Fish (web)

emic (web)

Claire Prouvost (web)

Friz (web)

Rob Hilken (web)

KVLR (web)

Vane MG (ig)

HMC (web)

FGB (web)

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