Artist: Gordon De La Mothe
Date: 1978
Museum: Black Cultural Archives (London, United Kingdom)
Technique: Drawing
This pastel drawing is of John La Rose who was a political and cultural activist, poet, writer, publisher, founder of New Beacon Books and Chairman of the George Padmore Institute. He was originally from Trinidad and was involved in the struggle for political independence and cultural and social change in the Caribbean in the 1940s and 1950s and later in Britain, the rest of Europe and across the world.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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