Belfast

Fanakapan

<div>@fanakapan<br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Untitled 

Kerrie Hannah

<div>Kerrie says...<br><br>The piece is a continuation of a series of work called Quarantined Bodies which I have been creating illustrations for since the COVID outbreak began.<br><br>With this series of work, I started by creating figures folded &amp; twisted on themselves to convey the feeling of containment which came about from being in lockdown.&nbsp;<br><br>As Tiarnán and I were working together on designing this piece we decided to make it about ourselves because we are iconic, parful and very, very humble.&nbsp;<br><br>It is a self-portrait of us and our cat squashed onto the tiny sofa in our house, binging Netflix &amp; is a lighthearted take on the intensity of being in lockdown with your other half.&nbsp;<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Quarantined Bodies 

Float

<div>This piece is painted over the entrance to Maverick, a popular LGBT+ venue, and is one of the works in the city that comments on the fight for marriage equality here. The design creates the appearance that, as you exit the club through this doorway, you are coming out of a closet. Float comes from a design background, and uses the techniques of street art to apply a design aesthetic. She is also well known for her stencil work, in particular her micro-stencils. You may be able to spot a character on the left of this piece hanging from the down-pipe, and a skateboarder a few doors down the street at Ladbrokes.</div><div><br>float_art</div>

Love Wins

<div>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy<br><br>overpainted during HTN 22</div>

Untitled

Bust

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy&nbsp;<br><br>@artofbust</div>

Sophie Mess

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy with support from Linen Quarter Bid.<br><br>@sophiemess_</div>

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy<br><br>@kmgyeah</div>

Novice

<div>@novice_jess<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Leo Boyd

<div>Part of the Belfast Canvas Project</div><div><br></div><div>We're going to rock down to...<br><br>Leo’s work shines a light on the absurdities of Belfast as seen by someone who wasn’t raised here but has chosen to live here. Leo’s Belfast is a messed up playground of overblown monsters with lasers coming out of their eyes and wind up riot vans. What is this mad, dangerous, day-go, car crash of a city? It’s the Belfast that we love.<br><br>@leoboydprints</div>

Electric Avenue

<div>Painted for Hit the North 2016 this wall was originally earmarked for James Early but he had to pull out at the last minute.&nbsp;<br>We picked James because we felt his style would sit well on this wall which is the back wall of Berry Street Presbyterian. Luckily JMK produced something just as appropriate and evocative.<br><br>@artjmk</div>

The Whisper & The Prayer

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy<br><br>@kerriehanna</div>

I do not Dream of Labour

Noys

<div>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy.<br><br></div>

Future's

Without Matter

<div>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy 2021</div>

Leigh Lowry

<div>@leighoops<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Irony

SHUK

<div>@shuk_graffiti_artist<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Racoon Vandal

Friz

<div>@thisisfriz<br><br>This entry is located on the site of a former Norman castle. The latter Ulster Plantation castle built on the same site included cherry gardens, orchards, bowling greens and ponds, and there were woods and meadows adjacent used for hunting and hawking.<br><br>Commissioned by @daisychaininc for Belfast City Council.</div>

Under the Cherry Blossoms

Rob Hilken

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy.<br><br>@robhilken</div>

Come Together

Matthew Knight

<div>@matthewknightart<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

For the Love of Skulls, What Have I Done

Dry Gin

Emic

<div>This piece is painted in 3D - the Sunflower bar may have some 3D glasses you can borrow to view it, or they are available during the Seedhead Arts Street Art Walking Tour. Or of course, you can bring your own, with which to get a better view of the piece and better understand the technique Eoin has used here. This piece is part of a series which Emic was working on at the time for two exhibitions - one at Framewerk Gallery in the East of the city, and one at Queen Street Studios in the South. The hands point in the directions where the exhibitions were due to take place - a kind of advertisement!<br><br>@emicartist&nbsp;</div>

South East

Ricardo Brandao

<div>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Mels 2

<div>Mels2 is originally from Eastern Europe, now based in Dublin. He is a very talented photo-realist artist, who is also heavily influenced by horror and gothic imagery, which you can clearly see here. &nbsp;</div>

Femme Fatale

James Early

<div>James comes from a family of stained glass artists, and this piece is a beautiful example of the influence this has on his work. Operationally, this was an extremely challenging piece of street art to create, as the site is quite inaccessible. However James’ skill and experience allowed him to make excellent use of the sight-lines and surrounding architecture to create this beautiful work.<br><br>@james_early</div>

High Horse

Falko

<div>The elephants came to East Belfast as part of Hit the East in 2019.&nbsp;<br><br>South African artists Falko was the headline painter at the festival. He is renowned for his elephant paintings. He also makes clever use of architectural features, greenery and local symbols to add humour and life to his work, as well as comment on the locality and situation of each piece.<br><br>If you walk to the end of this entry you can see another of Falko's baby elephants eating a tree.<br><br>@falko1graffiti</div>

Elephants

KVLR

<div>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy.</div>

James Earley

<div>A Palisade is a strong fence or protective perimeter made of a row of wooden poles or stakes driven into the ground.<br>Peripheral Palisading is a term usually used within the context of the cellular boundaries within abnormal neurological growths. I have reappropriated this term to reference the sociopolitical and physical (Ring of Steel) divides within the history of Belfast’s Entries.<br>This artwork draws its inspiration from three elements:<br>– the history of Joy’s Entry&nbsp;</div><div>– focusing on the Belfast Newsletter<br>&nbsp;– Belfast’s Ring of Steel<br>– Ciaran Carson’s work – esp ‘The Star Factory’.<br><br>At its core, this artwork is about visualising the complex and rich cultural history of Belfast’s Entries and more specifically, Joy’s Entry.<br>The composition and structure of the work has been created using a number of visual metaphors that reference the three elements above. These metaphors form the basis of the piece’s narrative and act as the bridge between the artwork and the viewer.</div>

Peripheral Palisading

<div>@emicartist<br><br>Design based on surrealist painting ‘Man in Bowler hat’ by Rene Margritte<br><br>Painted in partnership with UK Youth 4 Nature<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Save the Curlew

Danni Simpson

<div>@dannisimpsonart<br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

G'DAY

Zippy

<div>Originally painted by Zippy in 2017 she repainted it in 2019 to celebrate LGBT marriage equality.<br><br>Zippy says...<br>'3 years in the making in 2017 I painted a mural on the facade of (then) theatre of pluck to represent the repression of LGBTQ rights in N.I My intentions always were to repaint and transform this mural once LGBTQ rights were liberated in this country. That glorious day came in October 2019. This mural now projects LOVE down the narrow streets of the cathedral quarter and beyond."<br><br>@artist.zippy</div>

Love is Love

<div>Commissioned by Bullitt and DC Tours this mural is everything you want from a Leo Boyd piece: his fascination with pop art, B movies and Belfast architecture all approached with Leo’s very particular brand of humour. Leo’s work shines a light on the absurdities of Belfast as seen by someone who wasn’t raised here but has chosen to live here.<br><br>Leo’s Belfast is a messed up playground of overblown monsters with lasers coming out of their eyes and wind up riot vans. What is this mad, dangerous, day-go, car crash of a city? It’s the Belfast that we love.<br><br>@leoboydprints</div>

Belfast Romance

Subset

<div>@subset</div><div><br></div><div>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Colour Therapy

<div>Danni Says,<br><br>Mental Health awareness has always been a topic close to my heart. This year more than ever has been tough on everyone in one way or another. I want to encourage people to reach out to their mates, a conversation can save a life. We never know what is going on in someone else's mind, they could be up in the clouds and in space or radiating happiness. Be kind to one another and always be there.&nbsp;<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy.<br><br>20/9/20</div>

R U OK?

G W Joyce

<div>Part of the Belfast Canvas Project<br><br>GW Joyce is a stencil artist from Cork now based in Dublin. He painted this junction box on his first ever trip north. Let's hope it's not his last.</div><div><br></div><div>@gw.joyce</div>

Long Face

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy<br><br>@thisisfriz</div>

Shnakey Lady

Niall.ol

Nomad Clan

<div>This impressive 4 storey piece is situated at the High St end of Pottinger’s entry. Art Deco design combines with photorealistic elements and a beautiful colour palette. The piece depicts Pelicans from the Pottinger family crest which can be found in nearby St. Georges Church.<br>The work also includes east asian flowers representing the trading routes and cogs pointing to Belfast’s rich industrial past.<br><br>If you want to get the best look at this, make the hike to the top of the multi story car park that's beside it. It's worth it.<br><br>@nomad.clan<br><br>Part of the Belfast Entries Project</div>

Pottingers

VaneMG

<div>Part of the Belfast Canvas Project</div><div><br></div><div>Vane MG is a multidisciplinary artist &amp; Designer from Colombia who is now established in London and focussed on highlighting the importance of Colombian women. Her objective is to attempt to reclaim elements of the cultural past, integrating it with the present and creating new images that help to define a lost identity.</div><div><br>@VaneMG</div>

<div>Part of the Belfast Canvas Project</div><div><br></div><div>London based Irony is a frequent visitor to Belfast and he has painted his photorealistic pieces on the Comber Greenway, Stokers in Holywood, Bank Square and has an amazing piece in Derry also.<br><br>@whoamirony</div>

@rob Hilken

<div>@robhilken<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Eggs

Verz

<div>This is a tribute to a dog called Hank who was due to be euthanised under the Dangerous Dogs Order in Northern Ireland, a widely criticised piece of legislation which allowed dogs to be put to sleep not because of their nature of behaviour, but because of their facial features. There were dogs that were destroyed because of their breed.&nbsp;<br><br>Hank was removed from his family under this legislation, but there was a massive public campaign to save him. As a result, it is believed that the Lord Mayor of Belfast at the time, Brian Kingston, intervened and Hank was saved... which is why he looks so happy.&nbsp;<br><br>@verzbelfast</div>

Hanks for the Memories

Malarko

Gold peg

<div>This piece was painted at the first Hit the North in 2013. It was originally due to be painted at another site, but on the day the artists were due to arrive and commence painting the owner changed his mind. Pedro from the Sunflower came to the rescue and allowed them to paint the side of his building. The work is now very much part of the bar, and wonderful that it is still there to this day.<br><br>@malarko</div>

Caoilfhionn Hanton

<div>Ironically Line of Duty was Filming in the next street the day of the Festival. Place was coming down with bent coppers.<br><br>Also this piece was made famous on the Graham Norton Show...<br>https://www.facebook.com/caoilfhionnmup/videos/4085036118214672&nbsp;<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

I didn't Float Up the Lagan in a Bubble

Omin

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy.<br><br>@ominous_omin</div>

<div>Part of the Belfast Canvas Project</div><div><br></div><div>Rob Hilken is an artist and curator living in Belfast. His multi-disciplinary practice includes short film and video installations, sculpture and performative. He loves repetition and patterns.</div><div><br>@robhilken</div>

<div>@noysamc<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy<br><br>@whoamirony</div>

<div>Irony's first visit to Belfast for Hit the North 2015 was not a smooth one. The plan was to paint the wall that he subsequently painted on Garfield Street the following year, but this year there was a technical issue. An elevator booked for the original job broke down and we weren't able to find a replacement. This wall was found and permission secured in an hour and so we managed to salvage something from the trip. In fact we didn't just salvage something, this piece is one of the most popular pieces ever painted at the festival.<br><br>The model's earring is painted by Louis Massai. Louis finished his wall in Library Street for the 2015 festival early and was keen to do more, so the space to the right of this Irony piece became his second piece which he covered in coral and tied to to Irony's piece with the coral earring. Unfortunately most of the coral is badly damaged now but the Irony piece largely remains<br><br>202205 status: completely tagged<br><br><br></div>

<div>Part of the Belfast Canvas Project</div><div><br></div><div>JONNY McKERR merges a traditional style of oil painting with a juxtaposition of contemporary graphics within his paintings. This fusion of old and new runs throughout his entire body of work. This is his latest gift to Belfast.<br><br>@artJMK</div>

Box of Roses

<div>@kvlr_paints<br><br>Photo by @streetgallerybelfast</div>

Aches

<div>Aches says...<br><br>Thanks to my friend Stephen for modelling for this, Stephen does a lot of great work raising money for mental health charities with @bipolarbear.wear check them out<br><br>@achesdub<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Disruption

Holly Pereira

<div>Reff - Gigantic - Pixies<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Big Big Love

<div>This piece was painted in the middle of blizzard, in temperatures so low the paint froze. However the artists were only here for a short time, so heroically they continued on despite the uncomfortable conditions. The pocket park on Tower Street was developed in 2011 to replace a derelict site, and included some heritage signage which related to the local linen industry. Noman Clan chose to include this in their mural, depicting a modern woman who resembles a flax gatherer, encircled by a whirl of light and flax flowers which symbolise the energy and life the flax industry sustained. There is a surreal dream-like environment around the figure, which relates to a folktale which tells how flax was introduced by other worldly beings who dwelt on the Shahbna mountain. The piece was painted before Vault Artist Studios took up residence on Tower Street but now seems like a beautiful forerunner of the studio's arrival and all the art that they have brought to the area.<br><br>Funded by Urban Villages, commissioned by Eastside Partnership and managed by Seedhead Arts.&nbsp;<br><br>@nomad.clan</div>

Linenopolis

Alice Pasquini

<div>This beautiful portrait of an acrobat, by Italian legend Alice Pasquini, is of particular significance because Alice chose to paint it at the Hit the North following the loss of the Director of Belfast Circus School, Will Chamberlain, to cancer. Will was an inspirational voice for the arts community in Belfast, and his loss was particularly felt in the circus community, where he had been a figurehead for twenty years.&nbsp;<br><br>Will had a great love for street art and saw it as very much connected with street theatre. In 2019 the dates of Hit the North were changed to fall on the same weekend at the festival that Will established, the Festival of Fools. The new director of the Circus School is an amazing acrobat called Jenna, and when she got off the bus from the airport to relocate to Belfast this mural was the first thing she saw - the power of street art to connect people and places should not be underestimated.<br><br>@alicepasquini</div>

The Acrobat

<div>@artist.zippy<br><br>My piece at this year’s festival hits the nostalgia hard … combining spray paint and 3D printed elements of our beloved floppy disks and internet explorer .&nbsp;<br><br>This piece is a nod to the fast pace development of technology and how simulation plays such a big roll in our day to day lives and looking forward to the future …<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Simulation is the Future

<div>This work was commissioned by the NIHRC, to celebrate 70 years since the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The tags you can see here were present before the piece was painted, and Emic decided to leave them and have the piece coming out of the tags.<br><br>@emicartist</div>

Live Free

David Creative

<div>David was clearly inspired by the neighbouring Aslan statue. His piece incorporates the existing colour of the box, using this as a starting point for the piece, allowing a savannah-style palette to breathe life into the mythical lion, is emerging from it’s junction box wardrobe.&nbsp;<br><br>This ‘junction box’ piece was painted as part of the Wardrobe Jam, funded by Belfast City Council and run by Seedhead Arts, in collaboration with Eastside Arts.&nbsp;<br><br>@davidcreativeuk</div>

Aslan

Razer

<div>@razerderry<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

Wee Nuls

<div>@wee.nuls<br><br>Nuls Says...<br><br>The idea behind this piece draws on the history of Fountain Street in Belfast, this street used to have 2 fountains that provided public water for a lot of people in the area.<br>Water deities / goddesses are noted in folklore all over the world; rivers and bodies of water are seen as spirits or goddesses in their own right.<br>My idea is that these are the twin spirits of the fountains blessing the people of Belfast with water 💦<br><br>In Partnership with Belfast One</div>

The Spirits of the Two Fountains

Carla Hogdson

<div>@carlahodgsonart<br><br>Part of Hit the North 2021</div>

Various

<div>Commissioned by Belfast City Council and designed by Form Native design, it was initially imagined as a scheme that would take in all the shutters on College Street... but it just takes one spoilsport landlord...<br><br>@form_native</div>

College Street is an Education

<div>Verz is a veteran of the street art scene in Belfast and has operated professionally in the city for many years taking workshops and more recently as a guide for Seedhead Arts Street Art Walking Tours. His personal practice in recent years has focused almost entirely on dogs. Much of this looks at the concept of so called ‘dangerous dogs,’ but in this case it’s a portrait of his own dog as a puppy.<br><br>&nbsp;Sleep’s Not Come was what his kids would say to him when they couldn’t get to sleep, and this piece is about how with the arrival of this new dog, he was keeping them up all night too.<br><br>@verzbelfast</div>

Sleep's Not Come

<div>Like all Nomad Clan work <em>Still Waters</em> is very much a story of the city in which it sits.&nbsp; It contains a nod to Belfast's ship building heritage, its linen and its rope industry. As well as the wolf being on Belfast's shield, wolves were once an integral part of the Irish countryside and culture.&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<br> The stance between wolf &amp; modern young woman is a subtle reference to the tension during the troubles, a retrospective look and acknowledgement of past and present, with her proud heritage reflected in a neck tattoo. Often Nomad Clan use androgynous characters in their murals, but in Belfast it was a deliberate choice to represent a queer female in a place that’s banned gay marriage and struggles with women's rights</div>

Still Waters

<div>Painted by Vault Artist Studios founding member Emic on the side of their current home in Tower Street, this piece depicts a range of the flowers that grow in the Studio's allotment.&nbsp;<br><br>@emicartist</div>

In Bloom

<div>@leoboydprints<br><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

My First Paste Up

Conor Harrington

<div>Commissioned by the Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival and probably to this day the most significant and iconic piece of street art in Belfast on the side of Belfast’s most important arts venue.<br>&nbsp;<br>&nbsp;<em>The Duel of Belfast</em> is the perfect metaphor for Belfast’s troubled past and irritating present. The scene is one of two men fighting over a carcass of a dead animal. So consumed are they with defeating each other in combat and claiming the pointless prize that they fail to see that the world is decaying around them. It’s a perfect metaphor for Belfast’s difficult history and the wider notion of nationalism, empire and privileged white men fighting over pointless symbols.</div>

Dance by Candlelight - The Duel of Belfast

All the Doods

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy&nbsp;<br><br>@allthedoodz</div>

Keep it Sleazy 

The Spermer

<div>Dutch artist The Spermer was invited to paint this by Glen Molloy.<br><br>@the_spermer</div>

All Good in the Wood

<div>Part of the Belfast Canvas Project</div><div><br></div><div>Danni is originally from Australia but has made Belfast her home for the last couple of years. You can see her work right across Belfast in various settings, the biggest of which is right beside this piece on the hoardings at Garfield Street.<br><br></div><div>@dannisimpsonart</div><div><br></div>

Keep on Going

<div>The history of this piece begins in 2015 when KVLR painted a day-go Mad Hatter with a menagerie of weirdness coming out of his head as part of that year’s hit the North. However, despite the festival securing permission before work commenced, as the image appeared, so did the owner of the 2nd and 3rd floor part of the wall, and he wasn’t a fan. After some negotiation the Mad Hatter managed to hang on for a year, until KVLR replaced it with a new design more to their taste. Both pieces were/are amazing.</div><div><br></div><div>@kvlr_paints</div>

Golden Compromise

Pens

<div>Thanks to The Sunflower Bar, the best bar in Belfast, for their gate.</div><div><br></div><div><br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy</div>

<div>Commissioned by Belfast One this collaboration aims to reflect the history or Gresham Street as a bustling marketplace.<br>JMK is responsible for the middle section and KVLR for the bits either side of the face.<br><br>@KVLR_paints @artJMK</div>

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Asbestos

<div>&nbsp;The artist explains:&nbsp;<br>This mask represent a feeling of being overwhelmed with everything I’m consuming, seeing, absorbing, experiencing, living and decoding at the moment. It feels like the world is bashing more and more through my eyes, filling me with more and more and more. It’s all consuming, screen after screen, scroll after scroll, ad after ad, another painting, banana jelly, cat memes, peppermint fondant paint, the texture of her hair, conversations, work, war, conflict, love, lust, art, friends. Everything’s is new, bigger, brighter, better, faster, smoother, sexier. It’s impossible to not be enraptured by it all, but it’s bloody exhausting. I feel I need to unsee, to switch off a few of my eyes, and to try to process fewer things. I’m overstimulated, which I love, but sometimes I just need a break: Let Me Unsee!&nbsp;<br><br>@artofasbestos</div>

Let Me Unsee

<div>Part of the Belfast Canvas Project</div><div><br></div><div>This is a portrait of Pola Negri who was a Polish stage and film actress and singer who achieved worldwide fame during the silent and golden eras of Hollywood and European film for her tragedienne and femme fatale roles.<br><br>@kvlr_paints</div>

Pola Negri

dankitchener

<div>It is hard to believe that Dan created the piece in just two days during the 2016 Hit the North Festival, especially when you learn that unlike many artists approaching large scale pieces, he doesn’t use any projection or gridding system. After initially creating a sketch, Dan approaches each wall freehand, by eye, straight on to the wall. This gives him the freedom to amend his original designs to fit the location perfectly - his skill level is simply incredible. <br><br>Essex-born Dan work is full of colour-filled urban scenes, and he is particularly gifted when it comes to emotive, wet city streets such as this. He is also greatly inspired by Japanese art and culture. In 2017 he created a work round the corner from <em>Blurry Eyes </em>called <em>The Dream</em>, a beautiful portrait of a geisha, which is sadly now gone.</div><div><br>@dankitchener</div>

Blurry Eyes

Track 1

KRS One

Remos

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy<br><br>Artist says...&nbsp; With national insurance increasing as of April, (and everything else for that matter) i thought it was only fitting to paint the man himself, the millionaire who married a billionaire and tells us commoners how to live; Rishi Sunak (with lazer beams)&nbsp;<br><br>@kilians_art</div>

Rishi

<div>Wee Nuls says...</div><div><br></div><div>'Safe to say my heart is absolutely broken to hear that this piece was blacked out today.</div><div>I poured my heart and soul into this and spent 3 days working on this, unpaid, because I wanted to raise awareness on a number of issues that are so important to me.&nbsp;</div><div>This piece for me shined a light on the female gaze of our own bodies -&nbsp;</div><div>We grow body hair, we have periods, we have rolls. I wanted to create something that women could look at and feel seen and feel empowered .&nbsp;</div><div>It also raised awareness for <a href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/menstruationmatters?__eep__=6&amp;__cft__[0]=AZUCxPW8xJAQTKTxLQKySUyBTc2JldwfIon78lxQuyfLRDbnY-es1astzVbIyq5VtJwiaQkUHfXtrLQuQ77csCLussb899We6d4ueU7PJU03IEUS7L-rdiDuGNaX1c_exD6-Aq9VSUZ5zuGhLuZVHT3C&amp;__tn__=*NK-R">#menstruationmatters</a> an important campaign run by @homelessperiodbelfast which destigmatises menstruation and highlights the fact that period products are still not provided for free in public toilets.</div><div>We don't know who painted this over as I gained permission to paint on the space before I started.</div><div>There is clearly a lot of work to be done when work like this is being censored a few days after International Women's Day.&nbsp; People being offended by women's natural bodies only perpetuates the shame and stigma that we face for literally just existing and having bodily features that the traditional 'male gaze' doesn't deem attractive.'</div>

Free Period Items Now

Pang

<div>When Pang visited for Hit the North 2016 from her home in Lisbon she was at once delighted and horrified to have been given a spot next to Belfast’s most iconic street art The Duel of Belfast. ‘No pressure’ she said. But she’d got that spot for a reason.&nbsp;<br><br></div><div>This piece is spray, but spray made to look like brush strokes. It’s a portrait of Rembrant, done in the style of Rembrant and his contemporaries, with a deliberately badly drawn man in the bottom right painting over it. It’s a commentary on how we value art, why some is kept behind security guards, in a museum and some is painted over by the council.</div><div><br>@pang_artworks</div>

Rembrant / miniature asshole.

Dan Leo

<div>A digital and tattoo artist as well as a renowned muralist, Dan’s work often features cartoonish animals, and can be easily identified by his bold, clean designs and strong colour palette.<br><br>@danleodesign</div>

Palm Cockatoo

<div>Painted as part of Hit the North 2022 with Hennessy<br><br>@leoboydprints</div>

<div>@thisisfriz<br>Part of Hit the North with Hennessy<br><br>20220501 overpainted during HTN 22</div>

Arooooo

<div>Painted as part of the Belfast Canvas Project, paid for by Belfast City Council, this piece was inspired by public workshops that took place in late 2019.<br><br>FGB's work, particularly during the pandemic, is deliberately playful and uplifting. Here he's playing with Belfast's reputation as a wet and grey place and flipping it with a big happy sun. The 'Wish You Were Here' isn't just a play on the phrase you put on a postcard but also a mid lockdown longing for us all to be out and about in Belfast again.<br><br>@francoisgotbuffed</div>

Wish You Were Here

<div>A commercial commission by Stokers Halt, they pulled in three of NI's greatest street artists when they opened in 2015. They've changed the name recently but most of the art still remains.<br><br>The quote on the back of the building is what an old dude who lives in the street said to Verz when he was painting.<br><br>@artjmk @verzbelfast</div>

Stoker's Halt

Dzia

<div>Normally sponsors take a purely supportive role at street art festivals, allowing the artists free reign in their designs. However, when he painted with Hit the North in 2018, Belgian artist Dzia had an existing and strong relationship with festival sponsors Heverlee, having had a key role in the design of their branding. Therefore while unusual (and for some dissapointing), this piece includes the brand’s logo.<br><br>overpainted during HTN 22 by Asbestos</div>

Fox and Hare

<div>The mural draws inspiration from Ciaran Carson’s book Belfast Confetti. In particular Carsons inclusion of a public notice from the corporation of Belfast (1678) which highlights a growing problem of Butchers and Tanners mastiff dogs attacking livestock, people, and even young children in the city.<br><br>“Inhabitants ffeare their lives to walk the streets or laines either by night or day for the said dogs…”<br><br>Carson’s use of this notice was to draw a connection between Belfast in 1678 and the city in the 70’s and 80’s during the troubles. An omni present danger that had befallen the people of the city as they went about their daily lives.&nbsp;<br><br>The murals subverts the sense of danger by featuring a little girl with a carnivalesque mastiff dog headpiece whilst she plays in the falling confetti.&nbsp;<br><br>It’s a playful piece with dark undertones.<br><br>@emicartist<br><br>Part of the Belfast Entries Project</div>

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