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Public Art

Public art can help define an entire community’s identity and reveal the unique character of a specific neighborhood. Public art, by its presence alone, can heighten our awareness, transform a landscape or express community values, and for these reasons it can have the power, over time, to transform and define an area’s image.

Beyond its enriching personal benefits, public art is a true symbol of a city’s maturity. It increases a community’s assets and expresses a community’s positive sense of identity and values. It demonstrates unquestionable civic and corporate pride in citizenship and affirms an educational environment.

The following large scale Public Art pieces have been facilitated by Belfast Harbour:-

Dividers

Location: Clarendon Dock
Artist: Vivien Burnside
Material: Bronze and Stainless Steel
Installed: 2002

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The Dividers sculpture stands as an archway or frame as the viewer looks inwards to the changing city or outwards to the sea. Dividers, in connecting points, allude to communication and navigation intrinsic to the Clarendon Dock area.

Kit

Location: Titanic Quarter
Artist: Tony Stallard
Material: Bronze
Installed: 2009

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'Kit' is a dramatic site specific light sculpture which is 13.5 metres tall and cast in bronze. The artwork depicts recognizable Titanic elements on an outer frame and the overall sculpture suggests toy kits or air fix models.

Blinks

Location: Titanic Quarter
Artist: Facilitated by visual artist Peter Nelson and designed and constructed by former shipyard welders.
Material: Welded metal sculpture
Installed: 2005

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The term ‘Blinks’ refers to an irritation of the eye, suffered by shipyard welders, through watching the arc of the weld with the naked eye.

The Flying Angel

Location: The Mission to Seafarers, Prince's Dock Street
Artist: Maurice Harron
Material: Bronze and Stainless Steel
Installed: 2000

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The Flying Angel is a worlwide symbol of the Seafarers Mission. The Mission was set up in the mid-19th Century by clergy of the Anglican Church to provide shelter and comfort for sailors coming off long sea voyages. The Angel, shown as a protective force, flying above and in the act of calming the waves, was derived from the Scripture - Revelations 14 v 6

Napoli Anchor

Location: Airport Road West
Installed: 2009

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The MSC Napoli, while sailing between Belgium and Portugal, suffered severe damage causing it to become beached at Branscombe, around one mile off the Devon coast, near the coastal town of Sidmouth. After containers from the wreck began washing up at Branscombe, around two hundred people went onto the beach to scavenge the flotsam. Scavenged goods included several BMW motorcycles. In August 2007 the bow section of the ship's hull was taken to the Harland and Wolff shipyard at Belfast Harbour for disposal and recycling.