Bigfish

Belfast


The most prominent of several modern artworks on the riverbank between Clarendon Dock and Ormeau Bridge, Bigfish (1999), by Belfast-born artist John Kindness, is a 10m ceramic salmon symbolising the regeneration of the River Lagan. Its blue tiles depict the history of Belfast.


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