Kingston Creative, in partnership with UNESCO, the Maritime Archaeological Trust (MAT), Ministry of Culture, and Myers Fletcher & Gordon, officially launched ‘Secrets of the Sea’, a landmark new mural in the Water Lane Arts District.

The work, created by Jamaican artist Keddan Savage, draws on Jamaica’s rich and often overlooked underwater cultural heritage. 

The mural, which is located on the Myers Fletcher and Gordon building on East Street, is rooted in the principles of the UNESCO 2001 Convention on the Protection of Underwater Cultural Heritage, bringing awareness of Jamaica’s submerged history directly into the public consciousness of one of Kingston’s most vibrant creative corridors.

‘Secrets of the Sea’ takes viewers on a journey into the waters that have shaped Jamaica’s history. It begins in loss and carries us beneath the surface, into waters that hold the memory of shipwrecks, of Port Royal swallowed by the earthquake of 1692, of enslaved men and women whose final resting place was the sea.

The mural does not flinch from that history. It holds it with the solemnity it deserves.

“This mural takes some of the most profound and often overlooked chapters of Jamaica’s history and places them where they belong, in the streets, accessible to everyone,” stated Doris Gross, Kingston Creative board member. “That is exactly the kind of cultural infrastructure we are building in Downtown Kingston, and we are honoured to have partners of the calibre of UNESCO, the Maritime Archaeological Trust, and the Ministry of Culture standing alongside us in that work.”