Work by This Is Filth (Fb) in the city centre shows an idyllic scene: a campfire burning beneath a crescent moon over the mountains.
Replaces: Chips & Ketchup
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03042 Graham Watson text river pine fir tree
Dublin-based South African street artist MarcaMix (pictured below) was in Belfast for CNB15 in September and painted this colourful mural in Garfield Street. The circular swirl was originally larger and looked like a sun, so I see steam rising off icy fields. Or a chemistry experiment gone gloriously wrong. Other interpretations are welcome in the comments!
Previously: For CNB14 with KinMx: Rocket Cowgirl
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03058 X03057 Rimbaud synesthesia
ADW‘s (Fb) CNB15 ‘combat helmet of crayons’ piece in Garfield Street has already been reclaimed by the Belfast graffitists (specifically NOTA), cheekily turning ‘born to create’ into ‘born 2 destroy’, rather like the ‘born to kill’ from the poster for Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, on which the work was based (final image, below).
See previously: A Short Treatise On The Ephemerality Of Art in which a CNB13 piece was … modified.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03030 X03084 X03059 assault deadly weapon born to create combat helmet crayon pencil colour coloured NOTA none of the above
Coral hearts by One Love Louis (Louis Masai) (Fb | Tw) next to the work of Irony featured in That Faraway Look. See the wide shot below for both.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03054 X03055 belfast reform club
Realistic image of a female face in profile by Irony (Fb | Tumblr) for CNB15 just off Berry Street towards the Royal Avenue end. You can see the image he was working from at deviantart. The earring is borrowed from the piece next door, which we’ll feature tomorrow.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03056 belfast reform club
Here is the CNB15 piece by MELS2 (Fb), showing (in the wide shot, below) four bloody hands, with blood red nails, belonging to a blonde-haired, black-lipped woman looking askance at the viewer. The inspiration for the work is Dublin photographer Monika Lejman/Mona Leymann.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
culture night belfast 2015
The piece above by Malarky (aka Malarko) for CNB15 in September was replaced in short order by the RAZER tag (and face), below.
The wide shot shows the other pieces in the North Street car park: Femme Fatale by Mels from HTN/CNB15 and Fight Or Flight by Friz and Danleo from CNB13.
Malarky also did the piece immediately below in the lower Kent Street car-park.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03044 X03051 X03191 X03190 X03192 north st culture night belfast douglas greed Beuys Don’t Cry
Braddell & Sons sell fishing equipment in North Street and this year for CNB15 their shutters got the Elph treatment: a boy sits fishing in a mind-melting landscape. The little fish named “Fish” on the left (in the wide shot below) is for a guy who used to play the arcades further up the street. (Fb)
Previously by Elph: The Piano Has Been Smoking | Eyes Wide Shut | The Imaginarium | Let’s Melt
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03041 X03040
L.A. artist StarFighterA (Chirstina Angelina) was in Belfast for CNB15 and painted this three-headed, four-storey, piece of street art on the side-wall of the Irish News’s offices in Donegall Street. A full shot and another close-up are below.
Click image to enlarge
Copyright © 2015 Seosamh Mac Coılle
X03033 X03032 X03034
Seosamh Mac Coille Collection 