Alec Galloway's Sugar Bomb

Sugar is in Alec Galloway's blood.

Several generations of Alec's family worked in the Greenock sugar industry and he has been exploring its impact on him as a person and as an artist for several years.

As far back as 2006, Alec installed glass windows in the sugar sheds and he has been a key player in making the Absent Voices project come to life.

This picture shows a painting called Sugar Bomb which Alec made for the Aspect Prize finalists exhibition at The Fleming Collection in London in 2009.

Alec says: "It was painted painted in memory of my great grandfather, Alexander Cochrane, who was one of four people killed in Walkers' sugar house in Greenock when the building took a direct hit from a German bomber during the Greenock Blitz in May 1941."

On the nights of 6 May and 7 May 1941 around 300 Luftwaffe aircraft attacked the town in the Greenock Blitz.

Another Absent Voice is recognised.