Extramural Activity

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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Happy Accidents

2024-05-072024-05-09Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

Here is a gallery of the new street art on the south side of Kent Street, produced for Hit The North (HTN24) this weekend. Images of completed works are from May 6th; in-progress shots are from the fifth.

The tribute to Lyra McKee is still on the corner with Union Street. The piece by Mack Signs (ig), above, then follows, and, heading towards Royal Avenue, we have:

Jayde Perkin (ig)
Verz (ig)
Leo Boyd (ig)
Danni Simpson (ig)
Two small boards on the fencing, by Sweat, Tears, And The Sea (ig) and Chain Gun Art (ig)
Wee Nuls (ig) (done the previous weekend, as she then went to Glasgow Yardworks)
KAYOS (ig)
ESTR (ig) perhaps still unfinished
Kilian (ig)
Magdalena Karol (ig)
Lovely Letters (ig)
Karl Fenz (ig)
Lucie FLynn (ig)
Glen Molloy (ig)
Codo (ig)
Keyto (no on-line presence – see previously How About This For Art?)

For the rest of Kent Street, see Eat Your Words.

Update: ESTR’s completed work on May 8th

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Turf Lodge Boxing

2024-05-062024-05-06Extramural ActivityLeave a comment

This is a new mural on boards celebrating boxing in the Turf Lodge area of west Belfast.

Belfast Boxers (ig) gives the names as (l-r) Eoin Hamill, Damaen Kelly, John Ireland, Dee Irving, Damien Fryers, Sean/Jim “Spike” McCormack, Sean McComb.

Hamill (the youngster on the far left) was knocked down and killed on the Springfield Road in 2020 (BelTel | BBC | Irish Times). John Ireland (third from left, with blue collar) died in a crash 2014 at age 20 (Belfast Media).

Norglen Gardens.

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Let’s Put A Smile On That Face

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This is a piece of commercial street art painted at the corner of Marlborough Avenue and Lisburn Road on the wall of the Juice Jar (ig) by Visual Waste (ig). It uses the character of ‘the joker’ as played by Heath Ledger in The Dark Knight (2008); his catch-phrase “Why so serious?” has become “Why so juicy?”

See previously: the joker and catwoman in the city centre.

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We Cannot Live Only For Ourselves

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

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New Lodge Volunteers

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Twenty portraits in circular frames have replaced the twenty-one square portraits seen on the ‘Out Of The Ashes Of 1969’ mural in the New Lodge. From left to right, those portrayed are Michael P Neill, Seamus McCusker, Gerard Crossan, Colm Mulgrew, Francis Liggett, Brian Fox, John Kelly, Robert Allsopp, Louis Scullion, Billy Reid, Danny O’Hagan, Michael Kane, Sean McIlvenna, Jim O’Neill, Rosemary Bleakley, Martin McDonagh, James McCann, James Sloan, Dan McCann. Paddy McManus is no longer included, as compared with the earlier portraits.

For the mural without any portraits, at the time of its launch in 2012, see X00857.

New Lodge Road, north Belfast.

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Woodstock Rocks

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As a tribute to “the influence the local record shops had on the Belfast hip-hop and breakdancing scenes of the 80s” FGB (ig) and Katriona Designs (ig) have painted track-suited pensioners with a dual turntable setup (“Spin-A-Disc” (Technic?) and “Pensioneer” (Pioneer) brands) in Ardgowan Street at the Woodstock Road.

The documentary Bombin’, Beats And B-Boys is available on youtube. Here is an Irish Times look back at Belfast City Breakers.

See also the shelf of tapes at Portallo Street: Back On The Streets. The other new pieces in the current beautification project are: Up The Cregagh and Down The Woodstock | Up The Cregagh | Heron.

Also included below are two small pieces in Glendower Street, of a ‘Dolphin Lamp Standard’ lamp-post (such as can be seen on the Queen’s Bridge) and a fox.

Queen Of Angels

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Queen Elizabeth II died, aged 96, on September 8th, 2022, and is now (according to this board) queen of the angels in heaven (Matthew 28:2), which perhaps allows her to send other angels to Earth (Matthew 24:31) to deliver messages to chosen people.

Also included (below) from the same street is a memorial tarp to British soldiers in the Great War and WWII, including Vickers machine guns, Spitfire aeroplanes, and a WWI tank (perhaps a Mark V (Tank Museum)).

Ballyree Drive in Bloomfield, Bangor.

Westlife

2024-04-302024-04-30Extramural Activity2 Comments

“Another winter day/has come and gone away/In either Paris and [or] Rome/And I wanna go home” – words from the Michael Bublé-penned song ‘Home’ which boy-band Westlife released on its 2007 album, Back Home. For Egan, Feehily, and Filan, home is, or was, Sligo — the three went to Summerhill secondary school and were together in earlier bands; Byrne (and Bryan/Brian McFadden who was a member of the group from 1998 to 2004 but is not included in the mural) is from Dublin (WP).

“With a career spanning twenty years, Westlife are, Shane Filan, Nicky Byrne, Kian Egan and Mark Feehily. A true pop phenomenon with more number 1 hits than any other act apart from The Beatles and Elvis, Westlife have sold 50 million albums worldwide.”

The mural is behind Gilooly Hall, on Temple Street, Sligo. It was painted in 2015 by Kelan Curran (TAPA).

Previously from Sligo: Maud Gonne.

In The Service Of Our Country

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Above are images of a new UDR [Ulster Defence Regiment] veterans association board in Woodburn Avenue, Carrickfergus; below are images of people collecting for Andy Allen Veterans Support (web) on the Shankill, Belfast.

“In memory of those who gave their lives in the service of our country and are still doing so.” At its peak (in 1973) the UDR had more than 9,000 personnel (Statista). The UDR was amalgamated into the Royal Irish Regiment in 1992 and a 2005 estimate put the number of its veterans at about 58,000 (Veterans Services NI).

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