Here is a gallery of the flowers painted last summer (2023-06) in the New Lodge, with some details and some new additions (as compared with New Lodge Gardens), including a pair of hands by emic (ig).
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“Dorn san aer do na Gaeıl [a fist in the air for the Irish] Rónán Mac Aodha Bhuí 1970-2023”. Mac Aodha Bhuí joined Ráıdió Na Gaeltachta in the 1990s but was best known for his Rónán Beo@3 programme (which is inscribed on the ring on the first), which began in 2006. He was a passionate advocate for the Irish language. He died this past September after a four-year battle with cancer. (RTÉ | Irish Times | Donegal Daily)
The official launch of the mural will be at 2 p.m. on Friday (December 1st). Update: by the time of the launch a photograph of Mac Aodha Bhuí was added.
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Verz’s (ig) Hindu man was paint-bombed while it was in progress (Reddit | Xitter) and has been paint-bombed again since its completion. The mural is on the side of the Hospice Shop in Finaghy, with sponsorship from Arts Ekta (ig) “a social enterprise passionate about promoting cultural diversity” (web) who organise Belfast Mela. The vandalism is being investigated as a hate crime (Belfast Media).
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Here are the painted shutters of ten different businesses along Main Street in Crumlin, Co. Antrim. The Crumlin Youth mural is on Glenavy Road – it is presumably by Blaze FX (Fb) who also did the interlocking rings for Stylus Engraving.
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If you’re riding Shank’s mare, the combined length of the Cregagh and Woodstock roads is two miles; where they meet (opposite Ravenhill Avenue) you’ll find this new street-art by Zippy (ig) with support from Decowell Restoration (web), Bethany Fruit (web) and Astrl Fibres (ig), and funding from Belfast City Council).
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Here is a galley of images of the street art from a November, 2023, jam in Bangor, from PENS (ig), Ana Fish (ig), FGB (ig), Soaring Tides (ig). There were also jams in April (Around Every Corner) and January 2023 (This Is Not The Same As Other Days). The wall is off Queen’s Parade in the Bangor Marine regeneration area (DfC | Bangor By The Sea).
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season of the bad guys
Visual Waste (ig) reproduced a Terry Bradley (web) painting of a docker from the parlour (ig) of Outsiders Male Grooming (ig) on the gable of the business. The tattoo on the shoulder is the Tragedy & Comedy masks but with the titles “Sorrow” and “Pain” within “Mum (heart) Dad Forever”.
Bingham Lane, Bangor
Other Bradley dockers can be found at the Lanark Way security gates and in the Titanic Quarter.
Another Bradley in Bangor is Don’t Look Back.
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Here are the six pieces on the Artcetera side of the alley off Rosemary Street in Belfast’s city centre, painted for the Celebrating Autumn jam last weekend. From left to right/top to bottom: A psychedelic fox by SillyMe (ig), ‘On The Pig’s Back’ by Magdalena Karol (ig), an almost-finished chestnut season by Ana Fish (ig), a mushroom resting-place by Aoife Laverty (ig), a woman with ram’s horns by Ciarah (ig), and ‘Fómhar’ [Harvest Season] by Laidback (ig).
For the other side of the alley, see The Only Constant Is Change.
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