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Mythical Andersonstown

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Here are five mythological figures placed against a backdrop of Celtic Ireland, including standing stones, a dolmen, a stone circle, and the Janus figure on Boa Island (WP), from the wall of the PD/Cumann Sóısıalta Bhaıle Andarsan.

At least four of the five are copies of Jim Fitzpatrick paintings. From top to bottom (right to left on the wall) we see the figures from Breas ⁊ Cú Brea (which was long ago a mural in Derry), Medb Of Connacht, Nuada Journeys To The Underworld (seen in Nuada, Nuada Reborn, and elsewhere), a warrior-woman with spear (get in touch if you know the source), and The Coming Of Lugh (previously a mural in Ardoyne).

See also the Visual History page on The Influence Of Jim Fitzpatrick.

South Link, Andersonstown, west Belfast

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St James’s Community Farm

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St James’s Community Farm/Feırm Phobaıl Naomh Séamus (web | Fb) started in 2015 with a dozen hens; it is now home to 38 animals, produces vegetables and eggs, and collects cans for recycling.

Belfast Media recently profiled the farm (in print) and is producing a series of short videos about the farm: one | two | three (on youtube).

Rodney Parade, St James’s, west Belfast, replacing the Garden Of Hope mural, and next to St James’s Youth.

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Maritime Festival

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The Belfast Maritime Festival (web) included a paint-jam on a hoarding around one of the construction projects in Titanic Quarter (web), with work by (top to bottom, left to right on the hoarding) Conor McClure (ig), Zippy (web), Danni Simpson (web), Lost Lines (ig), Mo (Imogen Donegan) (ig), FGB (web), HMC (web), Karl Fenz (web), KVLR (web), Ana Fish (web)

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Culture Night Belfast 2025 – North Street

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In the first year that Culture Night Belfast included a public-art component (2012) – before “Hit The North” was the official title of the paint-jam – the idea was to paint some of the permanently-closed shutters in North Street. (Hence the name adopted from 2013 onward; “north” for “North Street” rather than “the North/Northern Ireland”.)

The central location for recent iterations of Hit The North has been Union Street and Kent Street around the Sunflower, but thirteen years later, the public-art component of the re-booted Culture Night returned to its ancestral home roots, with the four pieces of streetart (and one junction box) in North Street, where even more shops are shuttered than in 2012.

The works shown here are by Chain Gun Art (ig) (“Cheese, Please!”), Lost Lines (ig), Féoıl (ig), Rob Hilken (web), and Ana Fish (web). The Ana Fish piece is on shutters painted by Verz in 2012 – see North Street Will Rise Again.

Art was also produced on a hoarding in Garfield Street and on junction boxes (and one doorway) in Royal Avenue.

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Culture Night Belfast 2025 – Royal Avenue

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Culture Night Belfast returned after a three-year hiatus and included a paint-jam in three locations: on junction boxes (and one doorway) in Royal Avenue (this page), on a hoarding in Garfield Street, and on shutters (and one junction box) in North Street.

The artist of the first box is unknown; the other pieces are by ?Rob Hilken (web)?, Danni Simpson (web), and Karl Fenz (web).

Other new/recent painted boxes in Royal Ave, but perhaps not part of CNB:

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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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