Lower Ormeau & Relics of the City

From a background of wire mesh covering a collage of paper signs that is garish and perhaps sardonic or bitter, hang sections of painted wood intended to suggest the Lower Ormeau Road in Belfast, a hemmed-in Nationalist area.

Also hanging are boxed scenes that refer to some violent events in the city: the attack on Sean Grahams bookmaker shop along the Ormeau Road in late December 1992, which gave the initial impetus for making this sculpture, and also the shooting at James Murray’s bookmaker in November and the shooting of teenage joyriders some years previously.

Tom Bevan’s work recalls several violent incidents including the attack on Sean Graham’s bookmaker shop along the Ormeau Road in late December 1992, which gave the initial impetus for making this sculpture.