The new statue, titled A Surge of Power, depicted protester Jen Reid raising her fist on the empty plinth.
in place of a monument to 17th-century slave trader Edward Colston has been removed just 24 hours after it was put up.
The new statue, titled A Surge of Power, depicted protester Jen Reid raising her fist on the empty plinth after the monument to Colston, which had stood in the city since 1895, was toppled during a rally last month. The sculpture was erected in secret before dawn on Wednesday but has since been removed by Bristol City Council.In a tweet on Thursday, the council said the statue had been removed and would be held at a museum in the city for the artist to collect or donate.
A day earlier, Mayor Marvin Rees said the future of the empty plinth"must be decided by the people of Bristol". "This will be critical to building a city that is home to those who are elated at the statue being pulled down, those who sympathise with its removal but are dismayed at how it happened and those who feel that in its removal, they’ve lost a piece of the Bristol they know and therefore themselves," he said in a statement.Anything put on the plinth outside of the process we've put in place will have to be removed.
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