Artist completes mural to celebrate life of suffragette Mary Gawthorpe

A Leeds artist has completed an astounding mural dedicated to the legacy of one of the city's fiercest advocates for women's rights during the suffragette movement.

- by Charles Gray

David Griffin, originally of Horsforth, completed the striking mural of Mary Gawthorpe at the junction of Hough Lane and Cross Bath Road in Bramley this week.

Mrs Gawthorpe fought strongly for women's rights from a young age and worked as a teacher in Bramley while attending protests and demonstrations in Leeds, London and across the UK.

Mr Griffin, an ex-Marine, left the corps in 2021 and became an artist, having already amassed a portfolio during his unofficial tenure as "Regimental Artist" by painting murals on a number of military sites.