Belgian artist Kitsune Jolene (web) came to Belfast in the days before this year’s Hit The North and painted these entwined hands in east Belfast. She also painted a piece in Kent Street for HTN24.
East Bread Street, Connswater, east Belfast.
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Face upon face upon face – perhaps one for every parking space in the Flagship Centre. Street art by Codo (ig) in Bingham Street, Bangor.
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“Silence falls in the hole on the hedges, in half-/Opened windows. Tall hollow chimneys wide/Alleyways the seconds before the last school/bell before summer.//Joy is found in one place/Where roses bloom/Bees return once more/Dogs wag their tails/Children waiting patiently in the ice-cream line/Here in Botanic Gardens.” – Nandi Jola.
Jola (ig) is a South-African-born poet and story-teller who moved to Northern Ireland when she was 21 (Belonging Project | Flood).
Collingwood Avenue, Holylands, south Belfast.
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This piece of street art by Zabou (ig) on the old Telegraph offices, painted for HTN24, is about 50 feet/16 metres tall, dwarfing Alice Pasquini’s Glide and BUST’s piece of neo-pop at the corner of Royal Avenue and Donegall Street.
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Beat Carnival Belfast (ig | web) puts on celebrations all over town and teaches skills from its base in Millfield/Brown’s Square. Artists Danni Simpson (ig), Codo (ig), Ana Fish (ig), and FGB (ig) worked together to spray this piece on the Gardiner Street door.
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Above is a new piece by printmaker (turned street artist) Strangford (ig) on the metal plate in the facade of School Days uniform store. Immediately below is rampaging bull (artist unknown) a few doors down (roughly 432 and 440 Newtownards Rd). And completing the menagerie is a version of Aslan the lion by David Creative (ig), at the CS Lewis square.
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This is a new mural on boards celebrating boxing in the Turf Lodge area of west Belfast.
Belfast Boxers (ig) gives the names as (l-r) Eoin Hamill, Damaen Kelly, John Ireland, Dee Irving, Damien Fryers, Sean/Jim “Spike” McCormack, Sean McComb.
Hamill (the youngster on the far left) was knocked down and killed on the Springfield Road in 2020 (BelTel | BBC | Irish Times). John Ireland (third from left, with blue collar) died in a crash 2014 at age 20 (Belfast Media).
Norglen Gardens.
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In the myth of ‘The Pied Piper Of Hamelin’, the piper leads the children away from the village of Hamelin after the mayor there refuses to pay him for charming away their rat infestation. The piper takes his revenge and only the lame child, the deaf child, and the blind child survive to tell the tale. (Here is Browning’s poetic version, along with 30 other references.)
This piper at Holy Trinity primary school (web) and St Martin’s nursery (web) in Turf Lodge might be thought to be leading them away from their parents and into school, but as the final image makes clear, they are on their way to a cavern underground.
The source for the mural is perhaps the painting at The Palace Hotel, in San Francisco (WP).
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