In 1989 Cambridge Jones received a call from a musician friend living in Berlin saying "you'd better get over here – it's about to go off". Not quite sure what to expect he packed a bag and travelled straight over with his artist friend Ben McLaughlin.
What they then saw is of course history. But at the time it was unthinkable.
A wall that had been guarded and protected on pain of death (hundreds of people were shot trying to cross it) was being breached in multiple places. East German soldiers who had previously done the shooting were now receiving flowers and posing for portraits (in one of CJ's prints we can see his artist friend Ben McLaughlin handing his charcoal drawing of an East German guard to the solider on the wall who gratefully receives it.)
In another print we can see the West German politician Volker Rühe talking to the press as events unfold (as Germany's longest serving defence minister, he went on to oversee the unification of East & West Germany after these events reached their natural conclusion.)
These prints were exhibited twice; in 1989 in London (Lyric Gallery) and again in 2025 in London (Chelsea Arts Club).
