A snake wrapped around a rod is the symbol of Asklepios, the healer, but this fearsome creature is wrapped around a spear and they both seem headed for a victim rather than a patient. CNB15 work from Spanish street artist Sabek (Fb)
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Vermeer’s original is given a local twist in this piece of street art by David McClelland (web) for CNB15.
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An enchanted forest in purple and gold – street art by London-based artist Ed Hicks (Instagram | Fb) for CNB15. The piece is in a narrow alley (Exchange Place, next to the Black Box) which makes quality images of the whole thing difficult to get – you are encouraged to see the full thing in person.
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Work by Dublin-based artist Novice (Jess Tobin (Fb)) for CNB15 in Belfast city centre. Like ADW’s Born To Create mural, it was graffitied soon after being painted – see the final image, below.
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Work by This Is Filth (Fb) in the city centre shows an idyllic scene: a campfire burning beneath a crescent moon over the mountains.
Replaces: Chips & Ketchup
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Dublin-based South African street artist MarcaMix (pictured below) was in Belfast for CNB15 in September and painted this colourful mural in Garfield Street. The circular swirl was originally larger and looked like a sun, so I see steam rising off icy fields. Or a chemistry experiment gone gloriously wrong. Other interpretations are welcome in the comments!
Previously: For CNB14 with KinMx: Rocket Cowgirl
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ADW‘s (Fb) CNB15 ‘combat helmet of crayons’ piece in Garfield Street has already been reclaimed by the Belfast graffitists (specifically NOTA), cheekily turning ‘born to create’ into ‘born 2 destroy’, rather like the ‘born to kill’ from the poster for Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket, on which the work was based (final image, below).
See previously: A Short Treatise On The Ephemerality Of Art in which a CNB13 piece was … modified.
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Coral hearts by One Love Louis (Louis Masai) (Fb | Tw) next to the work of Irony featured in That Faraway Look. See the wide shot below for both.
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16 towns and town-lands of south-east County Antrim are named in this recent UFF mural: Rathcoole, Rathfern, Monkstown, Shore Road, Whitewell, Glengormley, Greenisland, Carrickfergus, Whitehead, Ballycarry, Ballyclare, Larne, Newtownards, Antrim, Antrim, Ballymena, Braidside.
This mural was painted in late summer, 2015, on a wall that had been blank since at least 2008. In 2006, it bore a UDA mural, for which see M03060 (in Peter Moloney’s collection).
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