The day Bristol woke up to a new statue
City responds to guerrilla installation of sculpture inspired by the day the Colston statue fellWhen Bristol went to bed on Tuesday night, the question was theoretical: what should replace the toppled statue of slave trader Edward Colston?When it woke up, the answer was concrete – or, at least, resin and steel. Just before five in the morning, a team directed by the artist Marc Quinn had swiftly and almost silently installed a sculpture of Black Lives Matter activist Jen Reid, and driven a
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