London artist Real1 (web | ig) in Kent Street, Belfast.
Replaced in 2019 by KinMx.
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Old Skool From 82
Belfast city centre
The Serpent’s Tongue
The mythical basilisk is able to kill its foes with a glance, but this one – painted by Swiss artist Sonic Oner (Fb) for Culture Night/Hit The North – fights its eagle prey with the barbed name of his creator.
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The Peelers
Glasgow artists Conzo Throb (web | Fb) and Ciaran Glöbel (ig | BBC Arts) were in Belfast for CNBX/HTN18 with a locally-themed mural and business suggestion for the PSNI: “Pommes frites … like chips but more expensive.”
Previously by Conzo: Fill Up On Colour | Let’s Melt
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Mural Of Concern
Emmalene Blake (web | Inst) painted her biggest piece to date for this year’s CNBX/HTN18, in support of same-sex marriage in Northern Ireland – it was approved in November 2015 but was blocked by a DUP petition of concern; the DUP now has only 28 seats but any new legislation is stalled by the current lack of a local parliament. The (Westsminster) Commons is scheduled to take up the matter on Friday (October 26th) for a second time – the bill was blocked in May (BelTel).
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A Closer Look
Luck Of The Irish
These shamrocks and slot-machine “lucky number 7” are Rob Hilken’s (web | inst | Visual Arts Ireland) contribution to CNBX/HTN18. Last year he painted Banana Republic.
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Keep On Sprayin’
Keep On Truckin’ is a famous one-page 1968 comic by R. [Robert] Crumb, and the first panel in particular has become iconic. Dublin artist ADW (Fb | ig) has adapted it here to show four spray-can street artists, each a different colour, truckin’ along.
Previously from ADW: Born To Create | Keep ‘Er Lit | Labelz Are For Jars
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A Neat Little Town
Dubliner Cormac “Mack” Dillon (ig) was in Belfast for CNBX/HTN18 last September and painted a sign for the city itself.
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Valar Morghulis
Dublin art collective subset (ig | web) has been battling Dublin County Council over the permissions process for street art in the city since the council ordered the removal of its 2017 mural of rapper Stormzy in December of that year (RTÉ). The ongoing protests currently take the form of the group’s Grey Area Project (video | Huck).
Here are the first two panels (of six) of their their ‘Valar Morghulis‘ piece in Lower Donegall Street when some members came north for CNBX/HTN18 in September. The first piece replaces Lisa Murphy’s 2017 CNB piece, which we called Ecstasy. The second is by weaks (ig).
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