Jordanian artist Dalal Mitwally (web) was in Belfast for HTN24, painting a large piece in Talbot Street which has signs reading “Danger 33,000 volts” on the wall – marking a Belfast council electricity sub-station.
Lídia Cao (ig), an artist from the Galicia area of Spain (ISSA), was in Belfast for HTN24, painting a large piece in Talbot Street, next to DanK’s Blurry Eyed and replacing Sabek’s Conflict.
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.
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)
There are two pieces inside the construction site, by EOIN and FGB, that we have not (yet) been able to photograph.
“Ulster is ours”, says James Craig, first prime minister of Northern Ireland, in (a reproduction of) an election poster from c. 1940 (according to Whyte’s). If it is for his own seat in North Down, for Stormont – rather than a poster for the Ulster Unionist candidates in by-elections – it might be from 1938 (WP).
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.
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)
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 (no on-line presence – see previously How About This For Art?)
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).
This is a piece of commercial street art painted at the corner of Marlborough Avenue and Lisburn Road on the wall of the Juice Jar (ig) by Visual Waste (ig). It uses the character of ‘the joker’ as played by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008); his catch-phrase “Why so serious?” has become “Why so juicy?”