The toppled statue of slave owner Edward Colston was replaced by a sculpture of a Black Lives Matter activist early this morning in Bristol.
Artist Marc Quinn created the black and resin steel piece of protester Jen Reid, who was photographed standing on the empty plinth after the Colston statue was toppled during the march.
A team of 10 people, directed by the artist, erected the figure of the black woman at 5AM this morning.
Two lorry loads of activists arrived in Bristol to raise Reid's statue, using a hydraulic crane truck - before council officials could intervene.
A cardboard sign reading "Black Lives Still Matter" was placed at the bottom of the plinth.
Ms Reid, who the new statue depicts, is a stylist who attended the original Black Lives Matter march where the Colston statue was toppled.
She stood in front of the “absolutely beautiful” statue this morning, fist raised, telling the Guardian: “I’d better get a picture before they take it down.”
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