Becoming Fowokan Book Reading and Q&A

Join us at 6:30pm for an insight into the archives held on Fowokan, a special reading from the book, Becoming Fowokan: The Life and Works of Fowokan George Kelly, followed by a Q&A with the man himself.

Copies of Becoming Fowokan: The Life and Works of Fowokan George Kelly can be purchased and signed on the night for £25, or purchased online .

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About Becoming Fowokan: The Life and Works of Fowokan George Kelly

The book provides an insightful history of Jamaica in the 1940s and 50s and ‘Swinging’ London in the late 50s and 60s through the life of young George. It explores his journey from East Queen Street Baptist Elementary School in Downtown Kingston to Brixton, London; becoming a musician, touring the US with Cymande and Nigeria with Jimmy Cliff, teaching himself to sculpt, exhibiting nationally and internationally including with Ronald Moody in the 1980s and at the Royal Academy of Arts in the 00s. What would inspire George to become ‘Fowokan’, meaning in Yoruba, ‘one who works with his hands’, is visually captured in this lavishly illustrated book.