Writing by Real Gary Rowe (web | ig) for Thick As Thieves “streetwear and graff supplies” in Kent Street for HTN2020.
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Belfast city centre
Teeny Bikinis
A reminder of summer to get us through a bleak Coronavirus Christmas from designer and artist Wee Nuls (ig | web) in Kent Street for HTN2020. Her merch is available from the Vault pop-up shop.
Previously Wee Elf | Fat Gremlin
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Talk To Me With A Message Of Love
DMC (Dermot McConaghy) appears to have scrubbed his on-line presence but the man himself was in Belfast in September for HTN2020.
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Belfast Graffiti Art
Here’s a year-end gallery of the graffiti art and wild-style writing that didn’t make it into an individual post this year (2020). Artists include SCAN, NOTA, JAKOV, MASH. Belfast city centre and Cupar Way “peace” line.
See also: State Art Vs. Graffiti On The West Belfast “Peace” Line.
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The Belle Of Belfast City
Home Is Where The Hurt Is
Domestic abuse reports to PSNI in the second quarter of 2020 increased 4% to 8,302 (BelTel). Women’s Aid NI (web | tw) provides refuge and support to victims of domestic violence. The stencil by Laura Nelson & Leo Boyd from VaultNI is on Carrick Hill. The title of today’s post comes from Women’s Aid CEO Sarah Mason (tw).
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Blow It Out Your Nose
Work by KVLR (tw | Fb) and PENZ for HTN 2020 in Kent Street, Belfast. There are images of KVLR and a blurred-out PENZ at work in the HTN 2020 video.
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Depart Quietly
“Belfast thanks our NHS”. Northern Ireland entered a two-week “circuit breaker” lockdown at midnight last night in response to recent increases in coronavirus hospitalisations that have taxed the health system (see previously Mother Of The Sick). These marionettes in NHS uniforms are on their bike heading for home, or for work, via the Duke Of York. “Come in soberly, drink moderately, depart quietly, and call again.”
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Kayos Kat
Don’t mess with the kitty by KAYOS (of FA Krew ig) in the top part of Kent Street, for HTN 2020.
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Ulster Says Noël
People are turning to Christmas earlier than ever this year as an escape from the ongoing coronavirus restrictions. Work by local artists is being sold at Vault Artists (tw | web) ‘Vault Pop‘ (in the Portview Centre on the Newtownards Road) with work by many artists whose street-art is featured in these pages, including Leo Boyd, FGB, and Esther O’Kelly, and at Born & Bred (web) on Ann Street, including ‘Ulster Says Noel’ cards by James Ashe (tw | web) – who did the ‘Ulster Says Yeoo’ tarp shown above, next to the Ulster Social Club (now just a regular bar) – and mini H&W cranes as a tree ornament (see David & Goliath).
(Extramural Activity is not associated with either shop or any of the artists named.)
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