Jamie took his own life by hanging, in the park opposite this graffiti in Torrens Avenue. Northern Ireland has the UK’s highest suicide rate (19.3 deaths per 100,000 and 30.3 deaths per 100,000 for men – National Archives). Below is another piece of memorial graffiti, in Pilot Street. “RIP Kev – from Ben.”
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Olympic boxing champion (and former Ireland soccer player) Katie Taylor is currently 6-0 in her professional career. Her image is being used here as an inspiration (or warning?) to the children of Victoria nursery in the New Lodge. She was also featured in a mural outside Coláiste Feirste in west Belfast.
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The picture tells a thousand words and a few more are added around the top: “Individual, unique, cherished, treasured, miraculous, fearfully & wonderfully made. Survivor!” This is Mark Ervine’s piece for HitTheEast. In the in-progress shot below, Mark stands aside to let a local try her hand.
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Work by emic (web) piece for Hit The East, reproducing in large scale a recent painting.
Update: a poster in similar pose in Union Street, in Jan 2019
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Writing by VOMS (who gives a mention to street art maven Belfast Beyond), RASK (Tw), DENO, FIVE8 (Inst | web), and Eoin (web – who is shown at work in the final image) for Hit The East.
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Sculptor Elaine Taylor (Fb) makes creations out of wire (see images at Studio Souk). For her Hit The East art she has created what looks like a wire robot monster rising out of the lough to terrorise east Belfast.
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Work by Jamie Harper (Inst | Fb) for Hit The East.
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Work by Belfast-based Wexford artist Esther O’Kelly for the Hit The East paint-jam, between the three pieces to the left and DMC’s Three Missed Calls.
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A toreador appears to suffer a crisis of conscience. Work by Ed Reynolds (steadyhanded, steadyhandeddie) for Hit The East.
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Work by DMC (Fb) for Hit The East reminiscent of his earlier piece Three Missed Calls.
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