This emic (web) paste-up, which he titles ‘Deconstructions’, is on Rosemary Street at the junction with Lombard Street in the city centre.
Previously by emic: CameraMan | Through The Fog
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Graffiti in Lenadoon. In existentialist mode: “If nothing is, free are we.” Or perhaps “If nothing is free, are we[?]”
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This piece – a small figure in white made grotesque by a gas mask, with the This Means Nothing hand in the background – is in North Street, originally next to Praise’s ‘Dot‘ (and the ‘Get Paid’ crosses, which are still on the electrical box) from Culture Night 2012, and now between DMC’s Long Runs The Fox and Visual Waste’s ‘bird snatching boy’ (Carried Away).
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New street art in Garfield Street, in the city centre – black and white cartoon characters with long, thin necks and square faces.
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The collaborative mural depicting and deploring Margaret Thatcher and The Sun newspaper has been painted out; it lasted only four months. (Featured previously: The Sun Will Make You Blind.) As a riposte to that, perhaps, someone has stencilled this “Ballex” version of the Belfast tourist board’s ‘heart’ symbol.
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The Sunflower pub in Union Street has added a sign replicating the graffiti that stood for a long time two blocks further along the street (at the junction with Little Donegall Street): No Topless Bathing – Ulster Has Suffered Enough. An image of the graffiti appears on Flickr user James Hughes’s page. CAIN reports that another version was in Upper Queen Street in 1999. The Union Street graffiti is also the version that inspired a 2005 gallery show of the same name, except that the show had “Belfast” in the title; an image of a “Belfast” version, which is perhaps an altered version of the Union Street “Ulster” version, appears on the show’s page at Green Dog Arts.
The graphics on the rear of the building were done by Malarky (Fb) for Culture Night Belfast 2013.
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Someone has written ‘Freedom’ next to the blackbird that feeds on the garbage cans in College Street Mews. As can be seen below, the bird is next to Don’t Drone Me, Bro.
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Here are two of the panels (and a wide shot) done by davidcreative (web | Fb) in Exchange Place for Apocalypse Mime – a play that was readied for Culture Night Belfast (20th Sept.)
The first features the ‘no alibis’ book store, which is on Botanic Avenue and specialises in crime fiction, and a piece of ‘not for $hale’ graffiti (see previously). Here are some pictures of the work in progress.
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McElhatton’s and the Front Page/Fox’s Den has been sold and will be refurbished (Irish News). It’s not clear whether this mustache is a guerilla piece or at the impetus of the new owners.
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