n 7 June 2020, the statue of slave-trader Edward Colston was pulled down from its plinth and thrown into Bristol Harbour as the world was waking up to the historical injustices and ongoing systemic racism which surrounds all of us. Jen Reid, who was in attendance, spontaneously climbed onto the empty plinth and raised her fist above her head. That defining moment was memorialised in a statue made in collaboration with artist Marc Quinn, called A Surge of Power. Reid has written a book, , imagining these
