THE BIG ISSUE The Big Issue - 11 January 2016 | Page 29

WorldMags.net THE ENLIGHTENMENT B O O K S / F I L M / T V/ M U S I C / G E E K PORTRAIT FROM BELFAST TO PARIS Flo O’Riordan, from Belfast, lost her son Sean, aged 13, on March 23, 1972. He was shot in the back of his head, a victim of the spiralling Troubles gripping Northern Ireland then. This portrait of Flo was created last year by Northern Irish artist Colin Davidson, who painted Angela Merkel for TIME magazine’s Person of the Year 2015 cover and who taught Brad Pitt to paint. The painting is part of a series of portraits of people bereaved during The Troubles. They are being shown at the Ulster Museum, Belfast, before transferring to Paris – a city that itself was deeply damaged by terrorism in 2015 – later this month. X Silent Testimony is at the Ulster Museum, Belfast, until January 17; nmni.com – and the Centre Culturel Irlandais, Paris, from Jan 29 until March 6; centreculturelirlandais.com THE BIG ISSUE / p29 / January 11-17 2016 WorldMags.net