Campaigning Artist Fights Her Cause With a Brush

Campaigning Artist Fights Her Cause With a Brush
Source: PRIDE
Published: December 2006
Author: Vicky Huntly

The bright, career-driven daughter of British immigrant Ghanaian parents had her sights on the corporate ladder until her ambition and her life abruptly changed direction.

In February this year Adelaide Damoah staged her first exhibition. Black Brits was rather unusual. Fascinated by faces since childhood, Damoah had been chewing over ideas for a theme for a series of portraits. She started wondering if celebrated British icons such as Princess Diana, Margaret Thatcher, Sir Winston Churchill, Joan Collins – the list goes on – would have achieved iconic status had their skin been black.

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