Mural gallery

Summer Mural Festival (2004)

The Summer Mural Festival created fifteen community murals city wide, working with eighteen community groups, in North, South, East and West Belfast. The Mural Festival was a huge success where all the groups and artists committed wholeheartedly to the project, creating superb and extremely unique pieces of art work. Each piece visually challenges the eye and the mind of the passer by, creating an arena for dialogue and thought. Some of the murals replaced highly controversial paramilitary murals across the city. This new influx of inclusive art work not only broke barriers of exclusion, but re-instated these walls and areas as positive, forward looking ‘shared spaces’.

Woodvale Community Centre & Ardoyne Youth Club.Crumlin Road, at junction to Twadell Avenue

Artists: Jim Mc Kevit

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

South City Resource Centre, Glenmachan Street
Artists: Caroline Jeffreys

 

 

 

 

For full details on this project, you can download the Summer Mural Festival PDF

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City Skate (2005)

New Belfast Community Arts Initiative,  Challenge for Youth, Belfast Festival at Queens and Wheelworks, worked together developing CITY SKATE a project which dynamically linked community groups, artistic disciplines and geographic areas of Belfast. Through City Skate, young people from across Belfast participated in a series of workshops all based around the common theme of skateboarding and street culture, including fashion design, drama, film-making, and murals. The project culminated in the production of a staged fashion show, a project documentary and a graffiti-based mural. The design of the mural was strongly influenced by subway and train motifs world wide, leading the group to replicate train carriages traveling through a tunnel.

Ann Street Pedestrian Subway.
Artists: Deirdre Mc Kenna and Fiona Ní Mhaoilir

 

 

 

 

 

Pulse Murals (2006)

As part of Renewing the Routes programme, New Belfast Community Arts Initiative developed four murals in the Lower Ormeau Road area in collaboration with local community groups. The name of this project PULSE connotes both the Arterial Routes Urban Regeneration Programme, and the theme of movement which informed all the murals. The theme of movement could be seen as progress towards a brighter future, a better environment, and motions / dynamic patterns observed in formal sporting or leisure activities. The project resulted in the creation of high quality community-owned murals which send positive messages about the community to all its members and the public at large, and enhance the Lower Ormeau area.

An Droichead, Kinnallen St

Digital image

Artist: Robin Cordiner

 

 

 

Mornington Community Centre, Essex Grove

Digital image

Artist: Neil Decodts

 

 

 

 

 

 

LORAG, Shaftesbury Avenue

Paint-based mural

Artist: Caroline Jeffrey

 

 

 

 

 

 

St John Vianney, Cooke Street

Paint-based mural on wooden boards

Artist: Fiona Ní Mhaoilir

 

 

 

 

 

Killyleagh Mural (2006)

The Killyleagh mural was a very successful project which saw almost 200 primary school pupils from different backgrounds working together to produce a celebratory mural for the whole community in Killyleagh. Children explored local history, culture and identity and focused on the achievements of local football legends Hugh Davy, Terry Cochrane and David Healy. The mural was very well received among the people in Killyleagh, and has now become meeting point for young people in the town who gather there to celebrate the victories of the Northern Ireland football team. The mural has also become a tourist attraction.

Dufferin Street, Killyleagh
Artists: Tracey Gallogly & Deirdre McKenna