Here is the CNB15 piece by MELS2 (Fb), showing (in the wide shot, below) four bloody hands, with blood red nails, belonging to a blonde-haired, black-lipped woman looking askance at the viewer. The inspiration for the work is Dublin photographer Monika Lejman/Mona Leymann.
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Realistic image of a female face in profile by Irony (Fb | Tumblr) for CNB15 just off Berry Street towards the Royal Avenue end. You can see the image he was working from at deviantart. The earring is borrowed from the piece next door, which we’ll feature tomorrow.
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Braddell & Sons sell fishing equipment in North Street and this year for CNB15 their shutters got the Elph treatment: a boy sits fishing in a mind-melting landscape. The little fish named “Fish” on the left (in the wide shot below) is for a guy who used to play the arcades further up the street. (Fb)
Previously by Elph: The Piano Has Been Smoking | Eyes Wide Shut | The Imaginarium | Let’s Melt
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Dublin artist James Earley (Fb) was in Belfast last week for Culture Night (CNB15 ) and painted this large-scale horse on the side of the National Grande Café. A wide shot and in progress shot are below. Here is a short video of Earley discussing his work; this piece is in a less-definite stained-glass style than previously – see his Wolf for CNB14.
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Cork-based Frenchman Psychonautes (Fb) continues his series of skateboarding legends. Last year fro CNB14 he did Tony Alva in Garfield Street and in Exchange Place this year he painted Jay Adams, one of Alva’s fellow ‘Z Boys’ who died of a heart attack last year at age 53. (WP)
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L.A. artist StarFighterA (Chirstina Angelina) was in Belfast for CNB15 and painted this three-headed, four-storey, piece of street art on the side-wall of the Irish News’s offices in Donegall Street. A full shot and another close-up are below.
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Not exhausted by last year’s monster piece (Home Taping Is Killing Music), here’s another tall, tall, CNB/HTN piece by KVLR (Kev Largey | Tw | Instragram) next to Psychonautes’s Jay Adams Soul Sailor, Hicks’s The Woods Are Lovely Dark And Deep, and Conor Harrington’s The Duel at the Black Box in Hill Street.
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Street art is often vandalised (see: the whole of Cupar Way and also A Short Treatise On The Ephemerality Of Art in which NIKO destroyed Praise’s CNB12 piece) but rarely is the vandal a commercial company drumming up business.
In a first for Belfast murals, speech balloons have been added to the Ring Of Peace mural in Waring Street to advertise office space. They read “Forget it, Muriel. I’m moving my business to CQHQ without you!” “Oh Jeff … It’s too close to the City Centre! I want to be with nature …”. We hope that indeed the ad does move away from the “muriel” – the balloons appear to be pasted over the mural, rather than painted on.
The speech-balloons are in fact an improvement over the earlier complete covering of the mural (paperjamdesign). In a less successful part of its media strategy, the business’s web site, at cqhqbelfast.com, appears to be non-functioning.
Report and video on the corporate vandalism from BBC-NI.
See the unadulterated original: Ring Of Peace.
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Incidents involving ships of African emigrants seeking refuge in Europe are so many that there is a separate Wikipedia page for them. In response to the crisis, an old mural in Crocus Street (see M01486) remembering the emigration of Irish to North America during the Great Hunger was repainted and the lower part (which had images of the Great Hunger) replaced by stencilling which makes reference to the 2015 situation: “Ireland/Éıre 1845 – Europe/An Eoraıp 2015”, “Refugees welcome – Fáılte roımh theıfıgh”, and “No human is illegal – Níl aon dunıe [duıne] mídhleathach”. It was immediately vandalized with a “not” (see the final image, below; Fb) but has now been repaired, along with the mis-spelling.
Update 2015-10-19: the mural has been graffitied with “SF hate blacks” – see the fourth image, below.
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Actor Leonard Nimoy died on February 27th, 2015. He is best known for the role of Star Trek‘s Spock, a part he played for 49 years. The mural above brings the character from space to the streets, with gold chain and skull hat. “Trek yourself before ya wreck yourself.”
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