On January 24th 2017, I arrived at the London Irish Centre in Camden to take up post as CEO of the Irish Chaplaincy. I had no experience whatsoever of prisons, the main area of work of the organisation. Nor, having grown up in Coventry and later lived in Canterbury, did I know anything .
Artist Che Lovelace was on his way to the coast on the Caribbean island of Trinidad to collect mud to use in carnival celebrations when he received a message that a church in the UK wanted him to create an artwork to commemorate the life of an African man he had never heard of.
Artist Che Lovelace was on his way to the coast on the Caribbean island of Trinidad to collect mud to use in carnival celebrations when he received a message that a church in the UK wanted him to create an artwork to commemorate the life of an African man he had never heard of.