An enchanted forest in purple and gold – street art by London-based artist Ed Hicks (Instagram | Fb) for CNB15. The piece is in a narrow alley (Exchange Place, next to the Black Box) which makes quality images of the whole thing difficult to get – you are encouraged to see the full thing in person.
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Transformer Megatron is powerless to stop these pigeons from eating up scraps of bread thrown to them on North Street. Work by KrikSix (web) for CNB15.
Replaces Verz’s Psychedelic Dog.
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A woman cautions secrecy as she pulls back a curtain to reveal a keyhole in the wall, the key for which is on a chain around her neck — two-storey mural by Friz (web) for CNB15 in Joy’s Entry on the side of McCracken’s bar.
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Two murals by Mark Bodé (web) and another in his style (and that of his father, Vaughan Bodé). The first is on the Cupar Way “peace” line and shows a disgruntled caveman and the Yellow Hat character; the second is in the Lecky Road underpass in London-/Derry and shows the character Cobalt 60; and the third is a promotional mural in the style of the Bodés in Gresham Street. All three date to this (2015) summer, when Bodé came to Derry for the ‘Release The Pressure’ street art festival. (Bodé’s official piece for the festival, painted with Dave Bonzai, can be seen in Metalmorphosis.)
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Following up on last year’s mural of Saul Goodman from the TV shows Better Call Saul and Breaking Bad, and the year before that of Breaking Bad character Walter White, Visual Waste chose Sons Of Anarchy character Jax Teller, played by Charlie Hunnam for this year’s Culture Night mural. Hunnam is from Newcastle, England, and previously starred in Queer As Folk. (WP) According to the video (below) of the artist talking about the work, Teller was chosen because “he’s a badass but a leader”.
Also: video of the piece being painted at the Visual Waste website
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This haloed madonna is Sandra Nestor (Twitter page with image on which the mural is based), a friend of street artist Dermot McConaghy or “DMC” (Fb), painted for CNB15. The piece is more than three storeys tall. It replaces last years Culture Night mural by DMC: We All Skream. DMC was the subject of a recent short film called Outsider by Rua Meegan and Owen Farrell.
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In the video profile included below, Keith Boe (Fb) expresses a wish to participate in CNB and for this year’s celebration he brought his “creepy stuff” to a car park in Kent Street in the form of skeletal head with a threateningly long tongue.
The artist of the boy statue below is unknown; perhaps JMK.
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Here are the six posters created by Leo Boyd to accompany a poem by Nathaniel McAuley for CNB15. Four are photographs taken in situ; two others are from Leo’s instagram.
A City-wide Initiative
for the [mass] Production
of Lemons
Instead,
the city plants
for lemons.
Big men wail hammers
parting the streets
in search of earth
seeds grow in
the cupped hands
of patient children
and shoot
from inside pockets
out of sleeves and collars.
Every hole in the wall
is over-packed
with knots of root.
Within the year
the luminescent
cache of fruit
is promised
to be vast enough
to displace night.
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Vermeer’s original is given a local twist in this piece of street art by David McClelland (web) for CNB15.
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Visual Waste’s The Mark Of Zorro (from 2012 CNB/HTN) has become a sticker for the artist (web | Fb).
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Extramural Activity 