The Vault Is Empty

The Vault artists have cleared out of the old Met building in Tower Street and have been preparing their two new digs, in the Shankill Mission (Vault ig | FGB ig) and Marlbourough House in Victoria Street. The vestiges of their time in east Belfast linger on.

For the final image in better days, see Do You Own A Giant Building?

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Garden Walls

Garden walls by Peaball (ig) in the garden of Ashmore House, Derry.

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Strong

As part of the ‘Get Up Derry’ graffiti and street art jam, seven substantial panels were painted at the Tesco superstore in Quayside, including work by NOYS (ig), Zippy (ig), emic (ig), PENS (ig), Kyle McGinley (ig), Friz (ig), and Razer (ig).

See also: Crash Bandicoot | Liquid Chrome Shamrock

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Liquid Chrome Shamrock

New work by Dave Bonzai (ig) William Street, Derry, part of the ‘Get Up Derry’ festival of graffiti and street art.

Previously by Bonzai (with Bodé) in Derry: Metalmorphosis.

Also from Get Up: Crash Bandicoot in Strand Road.

Replaces OMIN’s Great Hunger battering ram: Stars Look Down.

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Aether

Here is a gallery of images from last week’s project to repaint a long wall at the Oval in east Belfast – about 14 young people took part, assisted by sprayers from 5th Element (ig), with sponsorship from the Rio Ferdinand Foundation, Glentoran FC, and Choice Housing (Belfast Live).

For more 5th Element, see A Brighter Day.

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New Lodge Gardens

Here is a gallery of images from the new, multi-panel, floral mural in the middle of the New Lodge.

The mural was painted by emic (ig) with young people from the New Lodge Youth Centre, sponsored by Communities In Transition (a programme of the Executive Office) and organised by Community Restorative Justice Ireland (web).

For the POW mural, see Unbowed, Unbroken; for the JFTC2 mural, see JFTC2; for the Noah Donohoe mural, see 14 4 Ever.

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Peeling In The Sun

A couple of Leo Boyd (ig) paste-ups of his PSNIce-Cream land-rover (previously a mural in Kent St) are peeling off the pole in North Street, perhaps in part because of the recent warm temperatures.

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My Second Paste Up

Here is a paste-up version of Leo Boyd’s (ig) HTN2021 piece My First Paste Up.

Union Street, Belfast city centre.

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AKSEL

AKSEL makes his mark – Union Street, Belfast city centre

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Trash Mob Nomads

Work from TMN members in McKibben’s Court: AKEN, ANCO, and MASH below.

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