Errol Lloyd
Errol Lloyd (b. 1943, Jamaica) is an artist, writer, art critic, editor and arts administrator. Since the 1960s he has been based in London, to which he originally travelled to study law. Now well known as a book illustrator, he was runner-up for the Kate Greenaway Medal in 1973 for his work on My Brother Sean by Petronella Breinburg. A central figure in the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM) in 1966, he went on to produce book jackets, greetings cards and other material for London’s Black-owned publishing companies including New Beacon Books, Bogle-L’Ouverture Publications and Allison & Busby. He also served as an editor of the Minorities’ Arts Advisory Service (MAAS) magazine, Artrage, and his young adult novel Many Rivers (1995) was nominated for the Carnegie Medal.
ARTWORKS
Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso
Paint Like the Swallow Sings Calypso was an exhibition at Kettle’s Yard in 2022-23, curated in dialogue with artists Paul Dash (b. 1946, Barbados), Errol Lloyd (b. 1943, Jamaica) and John Lyons (b. 1933, Trinidad), three important first-generation diaspora Caribbean painters that were working in the UK during the same period that the Kettle’s Yard House and collection was still being established.
Alongside a selection of their own works, the artists brought together the collections of Kettle’s Yard and The Fitzwilliam Museum for the first time, assembling paintings and works on paper that reflect the rich history, themes and forms of Carnival, from street parades with music and dancing, to folklore, flora and fauna.