Stefan Gec, ‘Truelove’, 2002-2003.
Gec highlighted Hull’s whaling industry history and the story of an Inuit couple who had been brought back on one of the whaling ships, the Truelove, by an enlightened captain so that they could inform the British whalers and public about the brutality which their people faced at the hands of the whalers. Gec made copies of the plaster cast heads of the two Inuits which are on display in Hull’s Maritime Museum. He then mounted the new busts on an existing steel pillar in the river, close to the Tidal Barrier.