graffiti/writing – Extramural Activity

All This Scratching Is Making Me Itch

2024-05-092024-05-09Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is a gallery of street art and writing/graffiti art from Union Street (above Kent Street) and Library Street, in Belfast city centre, painted for Hit The North 2024.

Caryn Koh (ig)
Horhay (ig)
Garreth Joyce (ig)
Dreph (ig)
Qwynto (ig)
DECOY (ig)
NIZMO (ig) + SNAK (ig) + JAM2 (ig) + SURIV (ig)
[Library Street]
unknown writer
unknown writer
unknown writer
KVLR (ig) + PENS (ig)
unknown
Friz (ig)
NOYS (ig)
RAZER (ig)
unknown
KONE (ig)
VENTS (ig)

Library Street

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T04537
[T04518] T04570
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[T04516] T04573 [T04574]
[T04515] T04575
[T04479] T04578 [T04577] T04576 T04643
Library St
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[T04509] T04644 T04581 [T04580] T04579
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Eat Your Words

2024-05-082024-05-09Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is a gallery of the new street art from Kent street above Union Street and on the north side of Kent Street below Union Street, painted for 2024’s Hit The North festival. For the south side of Kent Street, see Happy Accidents.

“upper” Kent Street:
Odisy (ig) & Vibes (ig)
Kitsune (ig)
Rob Hilken (ig)
unknown writer
Artista (ig)

below Union Street:
Elno (ig)
Lours (ig)
Vane MG (ig)
Sepr (ig)
Malarko (ig)
unknown writer
unknown writer
unknown writer

below Union Street, north side of the street

May 8th Shot of the signage above the north side of Kent Street by Graffic Belfast (ig): “What can/should/will a/this/every city do?”

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[T04539] T04617
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T04615
T04538 T04614
below
T04525 T04613
[T04526] T04612
[T04527] T04611
[T04523] [T04528] T04609
T04649 [T04650]
[T04476] T04524 T04610
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We Cannot Live Only For Ourselves

2024-05-042024-05-04Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Free Gazz” is corrected to “Free Gaza” – graffiti in Pacific Avenue, Newington’s “best kept street, 1981”.

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Stand Up And Speak Out

2024-04-192024-04-19Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is a survey of the republican boards along Central Drive, Creggan. Above, “Victory to Hamas” graffiti has been added to emic’s Younger Days street art. The piece immediately below was seen in Victory To The PFLP, and the anti-extradition piece was seen previously in the 2022 post covering Central Drive. The other pieces – “Stop crown force harassment”, the 1981 hunger strike board, the “struggle for equality and social justice” board, and the IRPWA board, are all new.

“Bear witness to both right and wrong, stand up and speak out.” is from day two (March 2nd) of Bobby Sands’s hunger strike diary (Sands Trust).

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Let The Fight Go on

2024-04-162024-04-16Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This is a west Belfast instance of INLA graffiti – seen previously in Derry (Saoırse Go Deo) – celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the group’s founding, in December, 1974.

The Lasaır Dhearg (web | tw) stencils go back to 2020; see Britain’s Occupation Of Ireland.

Waterford St, west Belfast, replacing Victory To The [Palestinian] Resistance.

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Ban Israeli Goods

2024-03-222024-04-16Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is an assortment of images concerning boycotts of Israeli goods in response to the invasion of Gaza. Above, “Ban Israeli goods” on the wall of the Alexandra Park Tesco, north Belfast; below, a Lasaır Dhearg (web) tarp declaring an “Israeli goods free zone” in Lenadoon, west Belfast; V-for-victory fingers as scissors snipping barbed wire (bdsmovement.net) in a shop window in Andersonstown, west Belfast; “BDS” [Boycott, divestment, sanctions] and “IPSC” [Ireland Palestine Solidarity Campaign, which maintains a list of Israeli goods] next to a painted Palestinian flag in the middle Falls, west Belfast; plus an Artists Against Genocide (ig) sticker.

Victory To The PFLP

2024-03-062024-04-18Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

“Victory to the PFLP.” “PFLP” is the Popular Front For The Liberation Of Palestine, a revolutionary (where Fatah is democratic) left-wing militant group within the PLO. It dates back to 1967 and known for skyjackings in 1969 and 1970 led by Leila Khaled (see the entry on the mural featuring Khaled in Hugo St) and for suicide bombings during the Second Intifada (BBC | WP).

The PFLP emblem also appears in murals from Éırígí (Resistance Is Not Terrorism | Solidarity With Palestine) and RNU (Peoples United).

The posters read: “Republican solidarity with Palestine! التضامن الجمهوري مع فلسطين www.irpwa.irish” and “Stand with Palestine. End Israeli apartheid. End the siege of Gaza.” Both posters have also been murals: for the prisoners joining hands (which is a Carlos Latuff (ig) design) see Hands Across The Yard; for the protester tying her keffiyeh, see #Gaza.

Central Drive, Creggan, Derry.

Look Up To Us

2024-01-282024-02-06Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Sale has been agreed on the Shankill Gospel Hall (according to PropertyPal though not agents Frazer Kidd). High on the to-do list of the new owners will be removing the false gods in the apex on the Shankill Parade side.

Smothered In Kisses

2024-01-062024-01-06Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here are matching “KAH” (Kill all Huns/Protestants) and “KAT” (Kill all Taigs/Catholics) graffiti from Broadway roundabout – the interface between Iveagh and the Village – that have been plastered over with paper hearts.

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