graffiti/writing

Sign There

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2015-02-23 UnityWalk1+

Here is another set of tags (after the selection from the Cupar Way “peace” line in Sign Here), this time from the city centre, specifically Unity Walk and Garfield Street.

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(For NOTA (none of the above) see previously: CNB12 | The Sun Will Make You Blind | Belfast Butcher | Street Life | Keep ‘Er Lit)

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Compare 2014-10 with …

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… 2015-02.

2014-07-02 NikoGarfield+

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Glenfield Community Association

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2015-02-11 JoinTheUDAFull+

The 2010 work of Jade, Andi, Katie, Leigh, Ellen, Lyndsay, Shannon, and Hannah on the substation at the top of the Glenfield estate’s Oakfield Road has been replaced this week by a new UDA mural sporting a hooded gunman facing the viewer with a slogan borrowed from Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata: “Better to die on your feet than live on your knees in an Irish republic. Join the UDA.”. The two wide shots below allow you to compare the scene this week with last week.

The mural has been criticized by both DUP and Alliance councillors (Newsletter). The final words – Join the UDA – have drawn particular ire, as in other respects it is similar to other murals in featuring hooded gunmen, such as these two other Carrickfergus murals: Inclusion | Eternal Vigilance. 

Nolan Show discussion of the mural on 2015-02-11: Part 1 | Part 2

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Taigs Out

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2014-08-26 MonkstownBestWide+

UDA mural in Monkstown “Simply The Best”, along with a faded UVF wall with “The Ulster People’s Army” on one half and “Taigs out” over “Ulster Volunteer Force” on the other. For the mural in the background, see M03088.

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Throwback Thursday

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2014-08-11 DisbandRUC+

Old graffiti doesn’t go away. It persists, witness to the aspirations and angers of years past.

Above, “Disband the RUC” in Bóthar Chaıtríona/St. Katharine’s, republican west Belfast. Below, “If the leaders are impotent… only the people can rise” – anarchist graffiti in Melrose Street and “B-Men not cowards” in Agnes St, Loyalist west Belfast. These are all late-2014 pictures of graffiti that are at least three years old.

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Badly Drawn, Boy

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2014-11-15 INLAStopIntern-1+

“Stop inter[n]ment”! “MI5 fram[e] eveyone”! The spelling is lacking but the message is clear.

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Let’s Melt

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2014-09-24 CNBConzoElphClose+

Two Scottish street artists, Conzo Throb from Glasgow and Elph from Edinburgh, combined to produce the street art above. It features Elph’s distinctive psychedelic landscapes with Conzo’s Taps Aff, with Terror Cheb protruding. (A wide shot is below.) They also each did an individual piece for CNB14: see previously Fill Up On Colour (Conzo Throb) and The Imaginarium (Elph) as well as Elph’s work for the Menagerie bar in The Piano Has Been Smoking and Eyes Wide Shut.

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Welcome To LVF-Land

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2014-08-28 BallysillanLVFFairy+

The fairy-tale covering painted over an LVF “North Belfast Rat Pack” mural is fading away to reveal the previous work. For the original LVF mural, see D01199.

The graffiti on the wall (see the third image, below, of the whole wall) – Welcome to LVF Land – has itself been scored out. There is also anti-LVF graffiti in the street.

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Everyone’s An Artist On Culture Night

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2014-10-13 EveryonesAnArtist+

In Belfast, we like to get our kids started early with drawing in the street – see the gallery of images from Jacqueline Wylie’s CNB14 Rainbow Crossing – and one of them even took to the wall in North Street.

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Composition With Orange, Bathroom Tile, And Dolphin Wallpaper

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2014-09-16 BallysillanMondrian+

Demolition work in the upper Ballysillan area makes for Mondrian-style artwork (WP).

In the shot below: anti-LVF graffiti on the same wall. See also the painted-over LVF mural in the street.

2014-08-28 BallysillanLVFOut+

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