Here are three boxes in a row in Ann Street, with a toast to city-centre revellers by Zippy (web). For more city centre boxes, see Pink Moon Gonna Get You All, and for more on the painting of boxes in Belfast, see the Visual History page.
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Here is a selection of east Belfast electrical boxes painted with street art.
Above: Face – emic (web) – Templemore Avenue
Below:
Beanie – ? – Portallo Street
Crayons – FGB (web) – Ladas Drive
Wasp – ?NRMN? – Castlereagh Street
Bee – NRMN (ig) – Castlereagh Street
Frog – ? – Mount Merrion Avenue
Be Glad – ? – Mount Merrion Avenue
Mole – ? – Mount Merrion Avenue
In Flight – Imogen Donegan (ig) – Albertbridge Road
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Here is a selection of city centre electrical boxes, painted as part of the Belfast Canvas project, which first recruited artists to paint electrical boxes in 2019. For more on the painting of boxes in Belfast, see the Visual History page.
Above, Create – KinMx (web) – High Street.
Below:
Flowers In Hair – Emily Nayhree (ig) – High Street
Grim Reaper – ? – Gordon Street
Pink Moon Ghost Painter – Leo Boyd (web) – Dunbar Link
Band – David McMillan (web) – East Bridge Street
Murmuration – S Majury (web) – East Bridge Street
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The mallard duck is common throughout Ireland (Birdwatch), including on Belfast’s Lagan (Geograph). These drakes are on an Annadale Embankment electrical box, painted by Katriona (web) as part of the latest round of painted electrical boxes in the Belfast Canvas project.
With organisational support from Daisy Chain (web).
Also included is an earlier (2023) south Belfast box, from the Lisburn Road, by Zippy (web).
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Spring – or at least some dry days – is upon us, and with it the chance to get outside. This is a new piece by FGB (web) on the shutters of what was Quality Life massage parlour, in a row of mostly abandoned shop-fronts in (upper) North Street.
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The “West End Horse” in Bundoran was painted by John Deegan (Fb) in 2013 (Discover Bundoran). The “Big wave” on the wall of Madden’s is by Nik Purdy of Blow Designs (ig), who also did murals of James Connolly in Sligo and of local literary figures in Carrick-On-Shannon.
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“Up the airy mountain/Down the rushy glen/We daren’t go a-hunting,/For fear of little men.//Wee folk, good folk,/Trooping all together,/Green jacket, red cap,/White owl’s feather! – Wm Allingham”
Customs-officer, magazine editor, and poet William Allingham was born in Ballyshannon, Co Donegal, in 1824, and his ashes – brought back from London – are interred in St Anne’s church in the town (WP). “The Faeries” (poetry.com) was first published in his 1850 collection Poems (UCC) and remains a staple of children’s and mythological collections.
The art shown here is on The Mall/An Mál in Ballyshannon/Béal Átha Seanaıdh.
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Paper x Clips (web) – providing queer books and haircuts, and also hot drinks – moved into its new North Street digs in November (2024) and to go with the renovations and re-opening had the shutters to the shop painted by Zippy (web) with the genderqueer symbol between barbed-wrapped daisies and linked chains.
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Work by RAZER (ig) and NOYS (ig) of Peaball (web) at the Bullitt hotel/bar in Belfast city centre. With support from Seedhead Arts (web).
The final image is of a framed piece on the wall below these two, supporting Jameson whiskey’s “black barrel” variety (web).
Also at Bullitt: work by David McMillan in the alley-way and work by Rob Hilken on the Church Lane frontage.
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