[6] He was educated at Queen's Royal College,[7] and went on to pursue his interest in art and to train at L'Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts de la Martinique in Fort-de-France.
[1] Working as an artist since he graduated in 1993, Lovelace has experimented with various styles and materials, exploring in his subject matter dancehall, Carnival and dancing figures.
[14] In 2017, The New Yorker noted: "Poised on the border between Cubism and realism, Lovelace doesn't really belong to any school; part of the beauty of the show lies in watching the artist establish his own rich vocabulary and letting the work stand on its own.
[16] In a 2018 interview, Lovelace said: "I've seen the landscape in a variety of ways–as a surfer, as a country man growing up in Matura, as an artist in the city, as a participator in cultural events.
[20][21] In 2023, after a selection process led by curator Ekow Eshun, Lovelace was commissioned to create a new artwork to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the baptism of African abolitionist Ottobah Cugoano at St James's, Piccadilly, to be installed in the church entrance on 20 September 2023 – the first permanent artwork anywhere in the world to commemorate Cugoano.
[22][23][24] As described in The Guardian, "Lovelace's work is infused with rich colours and bold shapes and straddles the boundary between magical realism, abstraction and the beauty of the natural world.