A mythological Celtic queen under the Lecky Road/Barrack Street flyover. Painted by RAZER (ig).
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Ceart Gınmhıllte/Abortion Rights
Two pieces relating to abortion rights. The first is a piece of Irish-language graffiti in North Street, below Andy Council’s CNB14 Phoenix, signed by “Mısneach” (“courage”). The second is a stencil in Garfield Street below Leo Boyd’s Bowie tribute Oh You Pretty Thing: “Need an abortion? Womenhelp.org.”
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Deadbone Lizard
The Bodé character ‘Deadbone Lizard’ takes the central place in a piece by the TMN crew called “The Fire Rises”, with writing by ANCO and CASP.
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Colourful wild-style writing by ANCO and CASP(?) in Beechmount, an area without any other writing or street art.
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Crouching Tiger, Urban Jungle
Two animal pieces: in the second, below, the giraffe and the monkey roam free among the flowers; in the first, the tiger (painted by Friz web) is caged behind some railings along Donegall Street Place.
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Sweet Music
Local artist Friz teamed up with London painter ARTiSTA* to produce this new mural outside the (recently-saved-from-demolition) Sunflower bar (replacing KVLR’s Pizza Pipe). Artista painted the violin with legs on the left while Friz painted the girl on the right wearing winged headphones. Work-in-progress shots can be seen on the Sunflower’s Fb page.
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The Immaculate Desire
Here is the Hindu goddess Kali, her hair loose, nose pierced, tongue out, a kharga in one hand and the head of a defeated demon in the other. In the corner: “She who is the dark goddess, the immaculate desire. 12/12”. To the right are the hieroglyphic signatures of local writers and TMN crew.
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Hope, Life
As can be seen above and in the two detail shots, below, the words “hope” and “life” are painted into the two sides of the waterfall that runs down the gable wall in the Clandeboye Street community garden in east Belfast beneath swallows and cherry trees. Painted by Friz (Web | Fb | Tw) in 2015. The final shot shows the similar palette of colours in the railings along the Newtownards Road.
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The Artist Formerly Known As Prince
Prince Rogers Nelson, better to the world as “Prince” and from 1993 to 2000 as the “love symbol” shown above, died last Thursday (April 21) in his home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Previously: Belfast street artists pay tribute to David Bowie, who died in January: Stardust | Oh You Pretty Thing
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You’re Never Too Old
The saying “You’re never too old to set another goal or dream another dream” is attributed to east-Belfast-bred C.S. Lewis — shown here on the right — though we are unable to find any record of him saying or writing these words; instead it might be be a motivational speaker called Les Brown. In the rest of the piece, young people play in the grounds of Queen’s University and Belfast City Hall.
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