Here are two panels of Matt Sewell’s large-scale mural at the Donegall Street end of the North Street Arcade: above is an owl (held by a girl) and below is a jay (?). (For another owl, see Only When The Dusk Starts To Fall and for all the birds you’ll need, see his three volumes of bird illustrations.)
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2014 is the tenth anniversary of the fire in the North Street Arcade (2004-04-17). The image above, which is one and a half storeys tall, is part of a recent (June) work by Matt Sewell (Twitter | Web | Fb). His work is at the Donegall Street end of the arcade; Andy Council’s Belfast Phoenix is at the other end; see that entry for more about the fire.
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Here are two wide shots of Matt Sewell’s large piece at the Donegall Street end of the North Street arcade.
Previous detail shots: A Bird In The Hand | Only When The Dusk Starts To Fall
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Street art on Unity Walk (between North Street and Kent Street) by NOTA (“none of the above” – his web site appears to have disappeared and there’s nothing for TMN – The Most Nasty) showing a US flag in flames.
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As he mentions in the video below, JMK (Jonny McKerr – Fb) has long been painting classical sculpture. This Venus/Aphrodite (or perhaps Diana/ Artemis?) – sporting a modern attitude – takes its place in the gallery that is North Street, replacing (the first) Read More.
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In Belfast city centre in the early morning, it’s generally safe for the milkman to leave the milk on the pavement outside business premises, but perhaps not when there’s a well-camouflaged tiger on the prowl – red and white striped to match the pole of the Tivoli barber shop.
Work by friz in North Street; replaces KinMX’s blue-haired nude.
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From the pages of a book spring a world of adventure: a sailor lass looks through a spyglass for landmarks that will lead to buried treasure, where “X” marks the spot, while the ship is assailed by a tentacled monster from the deep. Work by friz (Twitter | Web) outside the Crescent Arts Centre on University Road, with shots of the writing to the left and right (by some the TMN crew), and a quote from John Webster’s Duchess Of Malfi, below: “Whether we fall by ambition, blood or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.”
Also recently by Friz: The Cat That Got The Cream
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This paste-up in multiple city centre locations shows a child squatting among (fake) flowers in a tub. Artist unknown.
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Here are close-ups of two of KVLR’s (Kevin Largey – Twitter) new faces in the first-floor windows in Garfield Street. The wide shot below shows all seven windows, and the Take The Red Pill piece featured a few days ago.
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The bird on the hat on the head of the man playing the piano with the dials and the tubes and the bulbs tweets love. Detail from one of the murals in the car-park/courtyard of Menagerie (web | Fb), on University Street. Painted by Elph (Fb) in May 2012.
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