Artist: Gordon De La Mothe
Date: 1995
Museum: Black Cultural Archives (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Drawing
A pencil drawing of Dame Jocelyn Anita Barrow a founding member and General Secretary of Campaign Against Racial Discrimination (CARD), the organisation responsible for the Race Relations Act of 1968. As a senior teacher, and later as a teacher-trainer (at Furzedown College and at the Institute of Education in the 1960s) she pioneered the introduction of multi-cultural education, stressing the needs of the various ethnic groups in the UK. Dame Barrow was also the first Black woman to be a governor of the BBC and was founder and Deputy Chair of the Broadcasting Standards Council.Gordon de la Mothe was given an OBE in 2015, primarily for services to art on the Commonwealth island of Grenada, West Indies, his birthplace. He established the teaching of art in Grenada, teaching GCSE and A Level art. The courses he began and taught resulted in many successful young people establishing careers in the West Indies, America and Great Britain. He created a teaching sessions which were eventually published into the seminal book
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