{"id":10679,"date":"2025-07-20T14:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10679\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T14:27:11","slug":"belfast-artists-transform-junction-boxes-with-street-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/10679\/","title":{"rendered":"Belfast artists transform junction boxes with street art"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daisy Chain Inc director Adam Turkington believes aesthetics, beauty and art are important in cities.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;These boxes are utilitarian, they have a purpose, they are junctions between things that make the city work. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But before we paint them, they&#8217;re also a bit ugly and boring and they&#8217;re just in our way a lot of the time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I find it very hard to get past the idea that every box we make look better makes people&#8217;s lives a little bit better.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He has created <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/d\/viewer?hl=en&amp;mid=1LoWmroPh8pUdV0b3uHsfdnFZsrxNzkcq&amp;ll=54.585148029100836%2C-5.944899909504506&amp;z=13\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a map of the Belfast junction boxes., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">For artists, Adam said that one of the &#8220;beautiful&#8221; things about Belfast Canvas is the fact that there is no brief.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s called Canvas because it&#8217;s a canvas for the artist to express their artwork and represent themselves.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Daisy Chain Inc director Adam Turkington believes aesthetics, beauty and art are important in cities. &#8220;These boxes are&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-10679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}