After a break in 2016, Dublin-based South African Marca Mix (web) was back in Belfast for Culture Night/Hit The North. Previously: 2015 | 2014
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Everyone’s Friend
South Belfast UDA commander Robert Dougan killed by the IRA on February 10th, 1998 while sitting in a car outside Balmoral Textiles in Dunmurry, two months before the Good Friday Agreement was signed. Ed Maloney summed up the situation at the time in a Sunday Tribune article. “A gentleman till the very end, he died as he lived, he was everyone’s friend.”
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End Isolation
IRPWA (Fb | tw) board protesting the treatment of republican prisoners in Maghaberry “torture camp”, next to Free Derry Corner, with a Palestinian flag and the Bogside Artists’ Bloody Sunday mural in the background.
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Harley Quinn
Not happy with his Tyrion Lannister, Visual Waste (Web | Fb | tw) turned it into Harley Quinn (in her more recent incarnation by Margot Robbie in the Suicide Squad movie) within a few days. The title of the piece is ‘Split the problem, not your personality’, giving the work a mental health message.
The mural was then quickly “enhanced” by members of TMN (second image). The wide shot, third below, shows the trio of Dan Kitchener’s The Dream, Friz’s Tyger, Tyger, and the Visual Waste piece.
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Tyrion Lannister
Street artist Visual Waste (web) chose Game Of Thrones character Tyrion Lannister as his subject for Culture Night/Hit The North.
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Ecstasy
Work by Waterford artist Lisa Murphy (Fb) for Culture Night/Hit The North.
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Work by DMC (Fb | Web | tw) for Culture Night/Hit The North, replacing his (vandalised) former mural Long Runs The Fox.
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Unauthorised Vehicles Will Be Eaten
Culture Night Crocodile by Easi (unused Fb | see more work here) with Peter Sheridan (Fb).
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Deep Love
Dublin’s ADW (tw | web | Fb) came north for CNB/HTN17 and painted a mermaid rescued(?) by a deep-sea diver – with a mustache to match her tail. The meme goes back at least to this 1895 Punch cartoon.
Previously: Labelz Are For Jars | The Short Timers (2015 CNB) | Keep Her Lit (2016 CNB)
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Extramural Activity 