Back in January, Bill Rolston said that there weren’t many murals featuring British royalty. The number has surely seen a large increase in the year of the diamond jubilee and the covenant centenary. This ‘blue queen’ is from the Village area.
Detail below …
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“Smoke like fuck.” Graffiti on the corner of Eccles & Acton Streets, Woodvale, west Belfast.
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Belfast is getting two new pieces of streetart as part of the East Belfast Arts Festival, one by Friz and one by Hicks54. Both are a-political artists from outside Northern Ireland. Friz is now based in Belfast. Hicks is/was a member of the 54 collective, in Southampton, England.
Above is Friz completing her mural in Constance Street, Sept. 8th.
The muraling during the Festival is “in conjunction with the Lower Castlereagh Community Group, East Belfast Partnership, and kindly funded by the Lloyds TSB Foundation”.
Below is (Ed) Hicks54 in front of his project, on the Newtownards Rd … (across from McDonalds) and a wide shot of the whole scaffold …
There’s an even earlier development shot at his flickr account.
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Here are three images of the 2008 David Ervine (WP) board by Ross Wilson in Montrose Street South, the area Ervine came from, with one of the Harland & Wolff cranes reflecting his connection to working class politics.
Working class Protestantism (and nationalism) was a large part of the discussion of Pete Shirlow’s The End Of Ulster Loyalism? on Sunday Sequence (starting at the 33 minute mark).
Two details below, the left and right sides, with flowers at the base of a broken-off tree in the foreground … for the sculpture, see Memory Chair.
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A view of the outside of the Orange Hall on Albertbridge Road (from three weeks ago), with flags and banners of the Queen and today’s Covenant celebrations. Here’s a piece from the Tele on Covenant celebrations in 1962, at the 50 year mark.
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X00617 ulster unionist party, east belfast advice centre, junior l.o.l. queen elizabeth diamond jubilee, 1952-2012 sponsored by royal arch purple district chapter no. 6, east belfast celebrates ulster covenant 100th anniversary, 28th september 1912-2012, sonia copeland, w.d.m., w.l.o.l. district no. 2
Here’s a mural by Friz (who was featured painting in east Belfast), on the Cupar Way peace line. This mural went up earlier this (2012) summer, but it is already covered in signatures and messages from tourists, who are encouraged to write on (some of?) the pieces on Cupar Way. There’s a “clean” version on Friz’s own blog.
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Street art on the peace line at Cupar Way (Visual History) by Eoin O’Connor at artbyeoin.com. (On the other side of the fence we have Bombay St.)
Like the girl with the flaxen hair, it is written all over by every tourist who comes here in a black taxi or tourist bus.
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Wild-style writing is combined with images of local street signs and portraits of east Belfast luminaries such as George Best, Van Morrison, and CS Lewis.
“Created as part of Belfast City Council’s Creative Legacies programme by the young people of ‘The Klub’ at Dee Street Community Centre and artist Daniela Balmaverde. With PEACE III funding.
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Graffiti on Northumberland St. in relation to the assassination of Alan Ryan (background: Irish Times, Belfast Telegraph)
Update: Graffiti in Derry (Derry Journal) | in Dublin (Sunday World)
Update #2: Irish Times article on possible reprisal killing.
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Photo of a Carlos Latuff cartoon drawn on the wall of a downtown cafe (Caıfe Na Croısbhealaí) in King Street. Dated June 19th, 2012. There was a post on Slugger recently relating to this issue. While he was in Belfast, Latuff was a collaborator on a mural in west Belfast.
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X00598 pacifying the six counties, síothú sna sé contae, media, latuff 2012, belfast 19th june
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