Artist Marc Quinn has erected a sculpture of Black Lives Matter protester Jen Reid on the plinth in Bristol where the statue of a slave trader stood before it was torn down.
Update: Quinn's statue was removed on 16 July. 
Quinn and his team installed the resin and steel statue, called A Surge of Power, during the night. He did not seek permission beforehand from the city authorities, stating "it's time for direct action now".
The plinth had been empty since protesters pulled down the statue of Edward Colston and threw it in Bristol's harbour on 7 June 2020.
A Surge of Power recreates Jen Reid's black power salute
British artist Quinn modelled the sculpture for the guerilla plinth takeover on black activist from Bristol Jen Reid, who was photographed standing on the empty plinth making a black power salute in the aftermath of Colston's toppling. "This sculpture captures a moment," said Quinn.
"It happened in the middle of the news and the worldwide ripple effect from George Floyd's killing ? all of which I had been following."
The artist did not ask permission before installing the statue
Quinn decided he wanted to immortalise Reid when he was shown a picture her raising her fist, a symbol associated with the black struggle for civil rights since the 1960s.
"My first, instant thought was how incredible it would be to make a sculpture of her, in that instant," he said. "It is such a powerful image, of a moment I felt had to be ma...