15 Facts About Errol Lloyd

Errol Lloyd was born on 1943 and is a Jamaican-born painter, sculptor, writer, art critic, editor and arts administrator.

Errol Lloyd had a long association with the Minorities' Arts Advisory Service, whose magazine, Artrage, he edited for a while.

Errol Lloyd is recognised for having done much pioneering work for black art, beginning in the 1960s, when he was one of the few artists "who consciously chose to create Black images".

Errol Lloyd travelled to 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aged 20, to study at the Council of Legal Education with the intention of becoming a lawyer, but that ambition was superseded by his interest in art, although he undertook no formal training in that field.

Errol 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.

Alongside creating his own work, Errol 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.

Errol Lloyd was artist-in-residence at the Keskidee Centre from its early days and was involved with some of the productions staged there by such playwrights as Rufus Collins.

Errol Lloyd had a long association with the Minorities' Arts Advisory Service, which aimed "to promote ethnic identity and preserve cultural traditions", in the course of which he did service as an editor of the MAAS journal Artrage.

Errol Lloyd was a member of an initiative set up in 1978 called the Rainbow Art Group, which mounted several exhibitions.

Errol Lloyd was formerly a teacher for Advanced Painting at the Camden Arts Centre, and served on the Visual Arts Panel for Arts Council England.

Errol Lloyd is known as a musician, playwright and storyteller.

Errol Lloyd is the subject of a photograph in the National Portrait Gallery, London, by Horace Ove.

In 2012, Errol Lloyd gave the keynote address on "Arts and Activism, Culture and Resistance" at the Annual Huntley Conference at London Metropolitan Archives.

In 2016, Errol Lloyd was inducted into the Munro College Old Boys Association Hall of Fame.

Errol Lloyd has over the years participated in many significant exhibitions in the UK.