“Samhaın, when the veil [between the physical and spiritual worlds] is at its weakest”. Some spooky Halloween-themed street art by FA [Foreign Assassins] crew in Tullycarnet.
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Here are some older pieces still rolling in Dundonald: Above, a pandemic-era mural with Superman as a doctor: “A big thank you to all the heroes of the NHS”; below, two small stencils of a young girl contemplating a pigeon and a flower.
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Here is a gallery of images from the Blaze FX art in the (western) Tullycarnet subway, which promotes various community organisations, including TagIt (Fb), Tullycarnet flute band (Fb), Tullycarnet Community Football Club, Tullycarnet Family Project, Helping Hands Autism Support Group.
The cartoon cats from Top Cat are featured – the eponymous Top Cat is featured above. Fancy Fancy is just inside the mouth of the tunnel – see this 2013 image for a close-up.
For a later survey of community groups in the area, see Tullycarnet Together.
Just on the north side of the subway: Samhain.
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These four boards are on the side of the Hanwood Centre (web) in Kinross way, referencing various local social groups: Helping Hands [Autism Support], Cloud 9 [youth group], Barnardo’s NI (Fb), Links Women’s Project (Fb), TASC, TABC (Fb), TCFC (ig)
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“Crucified” and “risen” in a pair on the back of Dundonald Methodist Church in Inchmarnoch Drive.
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Here, side by side, are a UDA East Belfast Brigade, 5th battalion board, and a jaunty “Tullycarnet Youth” piece of aerosol art.
Facing the library in Granton Park, Tullycarnet.
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Heba Zagout (ig) was a Palestinian artist and teacher who painted Palestinian women and scenes from everyday life, including one from 2022 of holiday fireworks over a Bethlehem skyline that includes both churches and mosques. (You can see the original acrylic on the Painting For Palestine facebook page). The painting has now been reproduced as a mural on the International Wall in CNR west Belfast. She and two of her children, Adam and Mahmoud, were killed in October in an Israeli air strike on Gaza. (Middle East Eye | Guardian)
The next mural (to the right) can be seen in Broken Family.
The image above is from February 4th. Below are in-progress shots in reverse-chronological order.
January 28th:
January 26th:
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A “Holywood” sign is imagined in the Holywood hills, where a lone golfer is playing, above the First Presbyterian, the Tesco Express, Ned’s, and The Dirty Duck.
There is a signature in the bottom-right corner.
Church Street, Holywood
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‘Solidarity today, solidarity everyday [every day]”. International politics makes a rare appearance in the city centre: support for the Palesitinians in Gaza – now under attack from Israeli forces for 116 days (Al Jazeera) takes the place of pieces by Conor McClure and All The Doodz.
See also: Ukraine Has Suffered Enough.
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This entry chronicles (in reverse order/from latest to earliest) the painting of one of Saïd Hassan’s (ig) contributions to the Painting For Palestine (Fb) project that is currently transforming the International Wall on Divis Street in west Belfast. The piece appears to be inspired by the mass grave in Khan Younis (in the Gaza Strip) in which more than 100 corpses were buried in November (Al Jazeera video | Reuters gallery).
Hassan’s instagram post of his original artwork cites a few lines from Palestinian author Ghassan Kanafani (WP): “Let’s plant them as our martyrs in the womb of this soil thickened with bleeding … there is always room in the ground for another martyr.”
January 26th:
January 24th:
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