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Errol Lloyd (born 1943)〔("Errol Lloyd. Born 1943 in Jamaica" ), Diaspora Artists.〕 is a Jamaican-born artist, writer, art critic, editor and arts administrator. He is based in London, where 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.〔Cherrell Shelley Robinson, ("Children's Literature (Caribbean)" ), in Eugene Benson and L. W. Conolly (eds), ''Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English'' (1994), Routledge, 2nd edition 2005, p. 233.〕 Becoming involved with the Caribbean Artists Movement in 1966, he went on to produce book jackets, greetings cards and other material for the pioneering black-owned publishing companies in London, New Beacon Books, Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications,〔("Framing Black Visual Arts Event" ), No Colour Bar blog, 4 August 2015.〕〔("The Sharp Edge of Hope: John LaRose and Children" ), theracetoread | Children's Literature and Issues of Race.〕 and Allison and Busby.〔Margaret Andrews, ''Doing Nothing is Not An Option: The Radical Lives of Eric & Jessica Huntley'', Middlesex, England: Krik Krak, 2014, p. 161. ISBN 978-1-908415-02-8.〕 Lloyd also had a long association with the Minorities' Arts Advisory Service (MAAS), whose magazine, ''Artrage'', he edited for a while.〔 He is recognised for having done much pioneering for Black art, beginning in the 1960s, when he was one of the few artists "who consciously chose to create Black images".〔Eddie Chambers quoting from ("The ArtPack: A History of Black Artists in Britain (1988)" ), published and produced by Eddie Chambers and Tam Joseph, with financial support from Haringey Arts Council, London.〕 Eddie Chambers has written of him: "Gifted with an ability to capture likenesses in a range of creative and engaging ways, Lloyd has been responsible for a number of portrait commissions of leading Black and Caribbean males who have excelled in their respective fields over the course of the twentieth century", among them C. L. R. James, Sir Alexander Bustamante, Sir Garfield Sobers and Lord Pitt.〔Eddie Chambers, (''Black Artists in British Art: A History from 1950 to the Present'' ), I.B. Tauris, 2014, p. 72.〕 ==Life and career== Errol Lloyd arrived in Britain in 1963, aged 20, to study at the Council of Legal Education with the intention of becoming a lawyer, but that ambition was superseded by his interest in art, although he undertook no formal training in that field: "I was self-taught and worked in isolation until I was introduced to () Caribbean Artists Movement.... I met older artists like the sculptor Ron Moody and they acted like role models for me. From there my work developed."〔Angela Cobbinah, ("Caribbean Artists Movement Retrospective" ), 25 October 2007. Reprinted from ("A Caribbean hothouse for the arts in a cold climate" ), ''Camden New Journal'', 25 October 2007.〕 In 1967, he sculpted a bust of C. L. R. James and, having joined the Caribbean Artists Movement (CAM), took part in CAM's art exhibition at the University of Kent.〔Pauline de Souza, ("Lloyd, Errol" ), in Alison Donnell (ed.), ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2013, p. 183.〕 While still a student he began to receive commissions to make bronze busts; his subjects have included the Jamaican prime minister Sir Alexander Bustamante, politician Lord Pitt, cricketer Sir Garfield Sobers, and cultural figures including John La Rose, Linton Kwesi Johnson and others.〔("Framing Black Visual Arts: Eddie Chambers and Errol Lloyd in conversation with Sonia Dyer" ), Huntleys Online website.〕 Lloyd regularly provided artwork for books published by Bogle-L'Ouverture and New Beacon Books, as well as having his paintings featured on greetings cards.〔〔("Building the catalogue of a 'publishing maisonette'" ), George Padmore Institute.〕〔Andrews (2014), p. 131.〕〔Angela Cobbinah, ("No Colour Bar: Black British Art in Action 1960-1990" ), ''Camden Review'', 16 July 2015.〕 In 1969, he was responsible for the cover of Bogle-L'Ouverture's first title, Walter Rodney's ''The Groundings with my Brothers'', as well as their next title and others over the years.〔Andrews (2014), pp. 118, 121.〕 In 1971 he designed the cover for Bernard Coard's ''How the West Indian Child is Made Educationally Sub-Normal in the British School System'', published by New Beacon.〔 In addition Lloyd worked for mainstream publishers such as Random House, Penguin Books and Oxford University Press. His success as an illustrator began with the children's book ''My Brother Sean'' by Petronella Breinburg (Bodley Head, 1973), for which he was Highly Commended for the Kate Greenaway Medal. Other accolades followed during his career, including when his 1995 novel for teenagers, ''Many Rivers to Cross'', won the Youth Library Group award〔 and was nominated for a Carnegie Medal.〔("Errol Lloyd (1943-), Artist and playwright" ), National Portrait Gallery.〕 Alongside creating his own work, Lloyd has demonstrated a consistent concern for the general advancement of Black visual arts in Britain, promoting, supporting and celebrating other artists including such notables as Ronald Moody and Aubrey Williams.〔〔Chambers (2014), ''Black Artists in British Art'', pp. 51, 69.〕 Lloyd was artist-in-residence at the Keskidee Centre (1974–75)〔("King's Cross" ), LaguDB.com.〕 and had a long association with the Minorities' Arts Advisory Service (MAAS), which aimed "to promote ethnic identity and preserve cultural traditions",〔Pauline De Souza, ("Minorities' Arts Advisory Service" ), in Alison Donnell (ed.), ''Companion to Contemporary Black British Culture'', Routledge, 2013, p. 201.〕 in the course of which he did service as an editor of the MAAS journal ''Artrage'' (published from 1980 for some 15 years).〔Chambers (2014), (''Black Artists in British Art'' ), p. 71.〕 He was a member of an initiative set up in 1978 called the Rainbow Art Group, which mounted several exhibitions.〔("Rainbow Art Group" ), Diaspora Artists.〕 He was formerly a teacher for Advanced Painting at the Camden Arts Centre,〔 and also served on the Visual Arts Panel for Arts Council England.〔 He is also known as a musician, playwright and storyteller.〔Linton Kwesi Johnson, ("About the George Padmore Institute" ), LKJ Records, 17 December 2008.〕〔("Sugar and Spice - Stories, cartoons, poems & music – Faustin Charles and Errol Lloyd" ), Settle Storytelling Festival, 2012.〕〔("2014 Selection Committee Members" ), Alfred Fagon Awards.〕 Lloyd is the subject of a photograph in the National Portrait Gallery, London, by Horace Ove.〔("Errol Lloyd (1943-), Artist and playwright" ), National Portrait Gallery.〕 He also features in Ove's film about John La Rose, ''Dream to Change the World''.〔 In 2012, Lloyd gave the keynote address on "Arts and Activism, Culture and Resistance" at the Annual Huntley Conference at London Metropolitan Archives.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Errol Lloyd」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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