Fast Enough So We Can Fly Away?

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These three cars are from a new piece of street art by DanK (ig) in Bank Square, Belfast city centre, on the wall of Crown Jesus Ministries (Fb) (in the Berry Street Presbyterian building), replacing the ‘Creation’ mural painted in 2012. Dan calls the piece “Hope” (ig) after the church’s ‘Hope Mission Centre’ (ig); this is the same title he gave to the geisha on the Shankill. This piece does not feature any of the kanji street-signage that would place it in Japan (compare with Night Taxi in the Woodvale), though there is some on the pink car, above.

The middle car has the license plate “OUTATIME” which was the plate on the DeLorean in ‘Back To The Future’ (see also: You Built A Time Machine … Out Of A DeLorean?)

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Hitting The Wall

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The Belfast marathon (web) took place on May 5th (the same day as Hit The North) and as the runners completed their twentieth mile at the Waterworks on the Antrim Road they might have seen the mile marker shown above, which hopefully inspired them to power through ‘the wall’ they typically hit around 18-20 miles/3.5 hours of running (Marathon Handbook).

Also along the route, in North Queen St, and with a suitable theme, is the Sınn Féın placard shown below: “Let’s not run from the conversation” about a united. Ireland.

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Drum And Bass

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Here is a gallery of 13 pieces painted for Hit The North 2024 on Union Street below Kent Street. In order, from top to bottom, they are by …

Psoman (ig)
David McMillan (ig)
Alexandra (ig)
Shona Hardie (ig)
Perspicere (ig)
Novice (ig)
JMK (ig)
Katriona (ig)
Klo Wi (ig)
?Moira Fowley? (ig)
Kerrie Hanna (ig)
Ana Fish (ig)
BOGS (MOS profile)

Finally, there are two pieces inside the construction site, by EOIN (ig) and FGB (ig).

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The Big Fish

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After floating above the traffic in Shaftesbury Square for more than 60 years, the statues on the Ulster Bank building were taken down last year (2023) and packed off to the Ulster Museum (Belfast Live). The blank wall is now home to a giant, multi-eyed, fish by French artist Veks Van Hillik (ig), painted for both HTN24 and the Linen Quarter business development group (web).

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The Evil Eye Can Bring A Man To His Grave And A Camel To The Cooking Pot

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We should say that this is an ugly piece of street art, so that its beauty does not attract the evil eye. The model in this new street art for HTN24, painted by Jordanian artist Yazan Mesmar (ig), is holding an amulet in order to protect herself.

The piece replaces one by emic (see The Bird Flew In, Minds Went In) in Farnham Street.

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Happy Accidents

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Here is a gallery of the new street art on the south side of Kent Street, produced for Hit The North (HTN24) this weekend. Images of completed works are from May 6th; in-progress shots are from the fifth.

The tribute to Lyra McKee is still on the corner with Union Street. The piece by Mack Signs (ig), above, then follows, and, heading towards Royal Avenue, we have:

Jayde Perkin (ig)
Verz (ig)
Leo Boyd (ig)
Danni Simpson (ig)
Two small boards on the fencing, by Sweat, Tears, And The Sea (ig) and Chain Gun Art (ig)
Wee Nuls (ig) (done the previous weekend, as she then went to Glasgow Yardworks)
KAYOS (ig)
ESTR (ig) perhaps still unfinished
Kilian (ig)
Magdalena Karol (ig)
Lovely Letters (ig)
Karl Fenz (ig)
Lucie FLynn (ig)
Glen Molloy (ig)
Codo (ig)
Keyto (ig)

For the rest of Kent Street, see Eat Your Words.

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Eat Your Words

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Here is a gallery of the new street art from Kent street above Union Street and on the north side of Kent Street below Union Street, painted for 2024’s Hit The North festival. For the south side of Kent Street, see Happy Accidents.

“upper” Kent Street:
Odisy (ig) & Vibes (ig)
Kitsune (ig)
Rob Hilken (ig)
unknown writer
Artista (ig)

below Union Street:
Elno (ig)
Lours (ig)
Vane MG (ig)
Sepr (ig)
Malarko (ig)
unknown writer
unknown writer
unknown writer

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All This Scratching Is Making Me Itch

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Here is a gallery of street art and writing/graffiti art from Union Street (above Kent Street) and Library Street, in Belfast city centre, painted for Hit The North 2024.

Caryn Koh (ig)
Horhay (ig)
Garreth Joyce (ig)
Dreph (ig)
Qwynto (ig)
DECOY (ig)
NIZMO (ig) + SNAK (ig) + JAM2 (ig) + SURIV (ig)
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KVLR (ig) + PENS (ig)
Kyle McGinley (ig)
Friz (web)
NOYS (ig)
RAZER (ig)
unknown
KONE (ig)
VENTS (ig)

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Inkology

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The Belfast Tattoo Convention will take place on June 15th and 16th in the Europa Hotel (BelTel). So, here are pieces from two tattoo parlours in town – above, playing cards with death, on the shutters of Joker tattoo in North Street, and below, White Dragon on Botanic Avenue – as well as an ad for the convention of the shutters of Skull And Bones in North Street.

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