A NEW artwork featuring Ealing’s Eric and Jessica Huntley, political reformers and race equality campaigners, has gone on display at Gunnersbury Park Museum.
It was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery as a legacy to its Citizen UK: Ealing Rises Up exhibition, held at Gunnersbury until June last year.
Eric and Jessica Huntley, the collage, will be on display until its transfer to the National Portrait Gallery when it reopens to the public next summer.
The work was created by Sharon Walters, an Ealing artist.
Eric and Jessica were born in Guyana in the 1920s. Eric moved to the UK in 1957 and Jessica followed shortly afterwards.
They were both politically active in Guyana and continued their activism in the UK, founding Bogle-L'Ouverture Publications in 1969 named in honour of liberation fighters in Caribbean history.
In 1975, they opened Bogle-L'Ouverture in Ealing, one of the first black bookshops in the UK.
It was later renamed Walter Rodney Bookshop following Rodney's assassination in 1980.
The Huntleys were passionate about equal education for black children and set up supplementary schools supporting Ealing children, including Sharon Walters.
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