'No Woman, No Cry': Remembering Stephen Lawrence

 

Remembering #StephenLawrence today with this painting 'No Woman No Cry' by Chris Ofili, inspired by him and his mother. More on artist, painter Chris Ofili in my coming piece for Reader's Digest...

From Tate: 'No Woman, No Cry'

This painting was made by the British artist Chris Ofili in 1998 when he was living and working in London.

The title of this work is the name of a 1974 song by the Jamaican reggae musician Bob Marley that entreats a female listener not to be sad.

The phosphorescent inscription in the painting indicates that the crying woman depicted is Doreen Lawrence (now Baroness Lawrence of Clarendon OBE), the mother of Stephen Lawrence, who was murdered as a teenage boy in an unprovoked racist attack in London on 13 September 1993.