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Oxford academic decries loss of terrorist murals

Turgon on August 7, 2011, 11:10 pm

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There have over the last number of years been serious attempts as part of the Re-Imaging Communities Project to remove the sectarian murals in Belfast and replace them with more positive images highlighting the areas’ cultural and history. The Titanic murals also on the Lower Newtownards Road would be an example: unfortunately since the assembly election two new murals depicting loyalist terrorists have been created. Overall, however, according to the Belfast Telegraph there are fewer sectarian murals now than there …

Some of our artwork is missing…

Pete Baker on February 4, 2011, 8:40 pm

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The BBC reports that fourteen paintings, worth an estimated £20,000, have gone missing from the publicly-owned Northern Ireland Executive’s collection since 1998. According to a Department of Finance and Personnel spokesman there are more than 1,400 artworks in the collection – which are “on show within government buildings”. From the BBC report The fourteen paintings worth a total of £20,000 had been under the control of the Department of Finance and Personnel and the Civil Service. Among the missing artworks is a 1970 oil painting, ‘Tullymore’ …

Photograph of the Day – Zadoc Nava

Moochin Photoman on August 28, 2010, 11:13 am

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The exhibition comprises photographs from a number of visits to Iran, in particular the capital Tehran and offers an insight into life in Iran. It’s an interesting exhibition and highlights tensions between the old and the new. Speaking with Zadoc he told me that whilst there was no real problem taking photographs(as ever common sense needs to be applied when shooting on the street) he did get arrested once. I think there is a resonance between the political and religious …

Photograph of the Day – Base artists mosaic

Moochin Photoman on July 21, 2010, 9:54 am

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Moochin PhotomanPhotographer and visual artist based in Belfast. I have facilitated community based workshops with groups as diverse as visually impaired individuals in Dungannn, Travellers across Northern Ireland, Young Offenders and many community groups across Belfast. My work has exhibited extensively here in Northern Ireland in group and individual shows and has been shown in North America and i had my first solo international exhibition in New Zealand. I have been the recipient of a number of grants from the …

Photograph of the day – Base at St Annes Square

Moochin Photoman on July 18, 2010, 10:07 am

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As part of the Trans festival 25+ artists from around the world are creating large scale paintings in St Annes square. The standard and quality of the work is very very high and i’d recommend a trip down to see the work being created. It’s on between 2pm and 6pm in St Annes square behind the cathedral and there will be live bands and dj’s, there’s also a nearby bar. You can also see the Half Naked Chef at Cotton …

Art? There was free wine!

Blank on July 5, 2010, 9:48 pm

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Being a blogger on Slugger isn’t something that comes with many perks, indeed I’ve been close to bottom of the list for the infrequent opportunities to have free drinks coming from Fealty Towers. But, occasionally Slugger gives you the opportunity to experience things you just wouldn’t normally do Tonight, was the launch of Moochin Photoman’s ‘Through the Viewfinder’ exhibition at the Waterfront. It was some craic watching people trawl through a thousand photos, giving a critique but the whole time …

Listening to Van Morrison

Pete Baker on June 5, 2010, 6:24 pm

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There’s a great piece in today’s Guardian Books section, Greil Marcus on his new book Listening to Van Morrison. Here’s an extract from the article It’s a short book, not a biography or a career survey, but an attempt to follow those moments in Morrison’s music, as he’s made it from his first records with Them, from Belfast in 1965 to the present day, when something happens that breaks through the boundaries of ordinary communication, of ordinary art speech. In this …