Michael Fullerton trained as a painter . His work includes painting , printmaking and sculpture . He works with portraiture , referencing the 18th century portraitist , Thomas Gainsborough , and combining aesthetic with political concerns , his mode described by Roberta Smith of the New York Times , as " a well-trained if so far unoriginal way with paint . " He has painted Lady Cosgrove , seen as a feminist pioneer for being the first female judge in Scotland , in a work titled '' Lover '' , which refers to the artist 's love of oil painting , as well as of the " romance " of political action . Another portrait was of Paddy Joe Hill , one of the Birmingham Six , exonerated sixteen years after wrongful conviction for the IRA bombing of pubs in Birmingham . Initially Hill had approached Fullerton to buy '' Lover '' for the offices of the organisation he had founded , MOJO UK ( the Miscarriages of Justice Organisation ) . Fullerton felt it was not an appropriate location for the work , and painted a full-length portrait of Hill instead
IRA bombing of pubs in Birmingham
Birmingham pub bombings
Michael Fullerton