MTO (Fb) was in Belfast for Culture Night and painted a large piece entitled “Son of Protagoras”. The ancient biographer Diogenes Laertius reports that Protagoras was driven from Athens and his books burned because he wrote that it was impossible to know whether or not the gods existed. On Fb, MTO adds a description of the Northern Irish “peace” lines, perhaps suggesting that religious adherence continues to be an enemy of peace: in his painting, a dove has been pierced by arrows bearing the cross of the Knights of Malta and the Latin cross; or, as the wide shot below illustrates, the fences get in the way.

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Here is Inkie’s new piece on the side wall of the butcher’s in Gresham Street, done for Culture Night Belfast, 2014. It includes a shout-out to the Loko skate-shop, just across the street. There’s a close-up of the work below.

See also last year’s Lost Soul.

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Here is the first of a number of panels from new work by Ciaran Gallagher (web) for CNB14 – Belfast Stripped Bare – in the courtyard of the Dark Horse/Duke of York. The piece humorously depicts a row of houses. In this pair, a woman smokes a cigarette on the front step of a house with portraits of Kennedy and the pope above the mantle, next door to a pregnant lesbian couple with a pride poster and a cat. The brick-work is real.

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A new piece for CNB14 in Lower Garfield Street, immediately recognizable from Scottish artist Elph’s inimitable style, here using a palette of pinks and blues. On his Fb page you can see a sketch done in preparation for the work.

Previously by Elph: The Piano Has Been Smoking | Eyes Wide Shut. Replaces The Most Nasty

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Here are two images of the new Visual Waste piece in North Street, completed as part of Culture Night Belfast, 2014. Bob Odenkirk plays the lead character, Saul Goodman, in the upcoming series Better Call Saul, a spin-off of Breaking Bad, whose lead character (Bryan Cranston as Walter White) was the subject of last year’s Visual Waste CNB piece (see Broken Bad).

Also by Visual Waste: The Mark Of Zorro from CNB 2012 | Carried Away. Replaces Faigy’s Purple Girl

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Here are two wide shots of Matt Sewell’s large piece at the Donegall Street end of the North Street arcade.

Previous detail shots: A Bird In The Hand | Only When The Dusk Starts To Fall

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Sunflower faces – opposite the Sunflower pub in Union Street – along with a gardener and a (human) passerby keep an eye on the bicycle locked to the pole on the footpath. Painted by KVLR in June.

Previously at the Sunflower: No Topless Bathing – Ulster Has Suffered Enough

Previously by KVLR: Locked In The Attic | Skull

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