The First Trust/AIB branch in High Street, next to Joy’s Entry, is merely resting. “This branch is closed” and has been for three years.
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The Belle Of Belfast City
The Machine Enslaves, The Hand Sets Free
The grey “machine” is encased in fluorescent colours in Rob Hilken’s (ig | web | Visual Arts Ireland) piece in Kent Street for HTN 2020.
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Denebian Slime Devil
Writing by DENEB in McKibben’s Court with the snake as an animal familiar (see Belfast Beyond for another DENEB snake).
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Blow It Out Your Nose
Work by KVLR (Fb) and PENZ for HTN 2020 in Kent Street, Belfast. There are images of KVLR and a blurred-out PENZ at work in the HTN 2020 video.
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Colour Therapy
For HTN 2020 (from Seedhead Arts and Hennessy), Dublin crew Subset (tw) were given a large wall in the Kent Street car park and produced a massive collage.
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R U OK?
Danni Simpson (ig) is looking out for your mental health, particularly under the pressure of the coronavirus pandemic. Painted in Kent Street for HTN 2020 organised by @seedheadarts and supported by @hennessy_ni.
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Don’t Burst My Bubble
“Who’s in your bubble?” Bubbles are back on everyone’s mind with the introduction on Friday (Oct. 16th) of new restrictions – bubbles are now limited to ten people from two households (NIExecutive) – and a two-week closure of schools. FGB (ig | web) painted this work in Kent Street as part of a socially-distanced HTN 2020.
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Thick As Thieves
Writing by Real Gary Rowe (web | ig) for Thick As Thieves “streetwear and graff supplies” in Kent Street for HTN2020.
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City Song
Artist and screen-printer Shane O’Driscoll (ig | web) was in Belfast in September for HTN 2020. His Kent Street piece contains some of the same elements as in his ‘Sea Song’ piece for the New Light exhibition this summer.
Update Nov 7th: The local writers give their verdict by vandalising the piece/re-purposing the wall.
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