Rosa-Johan Uddoh // SHE IS STILL ALIVE! Tea Towel

100% cotton with hang loop featuring the work of Rosa-Johan Uddoh, exclusively to Southwark Park Galleries.

Dimension: 47 x 67.8cm

About The Artwork

Rosa-Johan Uddoh’s She is still alive! was co-commissioned by Southwark Park Galleries and The Bower to launch during Black History Month 2022.

The work celebrates the life of Southwark resident Una Marson (1905–65), who was a British-Jamaican poet renowned for her pioneering anti-colonial, anti-racist, feminist and pan-African activism, and the first Black radio producer/presenter at the BBC in 1942. The tea towel features the quote: ‘I hope you remember a girl by the name of Una Marson….she is still alive!’, taken from Marson’s letter requesting a reference for her time at the BBC, which she sent years after her employers aided her forced deportation to Jamaica.

Originally made for Southwark Park Galleries’ annual flagpole commission.