Street art by Franc Got Buffed (ig) in Kent Street. His title, not ours – inspired by the Channel 4 reality ‘fixer upper’ show Escape To The Chateau (itself presumably inspired by the phrase “escape to the country”?)
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FAB or FGB – they’re one and the same, really. Street art by Franc Got Buffed (ig), ice lolly by Nestlé, six for a pound seventy-five at Tesco.
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This is work by Manchester graphic designer Micah Purnell (web) in Kent Street, for HTN21. Next to My First Paste Up and replacing Friz’s Got You In My Sights.
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Work by Sufek West in Kent Street for HTN21.
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Work by Kilian (ig) for HTN21 in Kent St.
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Combo piece by Pens (ig) x KVLR (ig) x Wee Nuls (Nuala Convery | ig | web) replacing the Gang Of Freaks by KVLR x Ten Hundred x Wee Nuls in Union Street, with an echo back to KVLR’s 2015 piece in this spot: Pizza Pipe. Official title: Patchwork Creeps. KVLR and Wee Nuls had earlier done the pieces in the windows of the Sunflower (see final image), as a demo for an audience at the August launch of the programme for HTN21 (Belfast Live).
The menagerie in the background is by Malarky.
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Abstract work by Without Matter (styled here as “W|OUT”) whose Instagram has disappeared.
Previously: Apart
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Work by NOTA [None Of The Above] of TMN [The Most Nasty] krew in Union Street, Belfast, replacing Rob Hilken’s fried eggs.
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Ashling Murphy, the County Offaly schoolteacher who was killed while jogging, was a member of Ceoltas Ceoltóirí Éireann, playing fiddle and concertina (Ceoltas). Her death provoked an outpouring of grief and anger across the island, and beyond, including in the Markets, where she was remembered as a fellow Gael. The verse is a popular one from cards and social media – A silent grief that’s in our hearts, no human eye can trace. For many a broken heart is hidden beneath a smiling face – modified slightly to read “hidden and alone“.
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