The Bermuda National Gallery is paying tribute to the late filmmaker Errol Williams by putting on display Bermudian artist Robert Barritt’s well-known painting, ‘Theatre Boycott, Upstairs Right, 1959’.

The painting, graciously loaned by Mr. Barritt, will remain on display for the next few weeks. It depicts black filmgoers during the Theatre Boycott of 1959, which led to the dismantling of segregation in Bermuda. Mr. Williams made a ground-breaking documentary on the boycott with his best-known film, ‘When Voices Rise’ (2002).

“On behalf of the Bermuda National Gallery, I wish to extend our sympathy to Errol’s many friends and his family,” Laura Gorham, director of the BNG, said. “The arts and Bermuda as a whole have lost a friend who did so much to put Bermuda history in its proper perspective, and it is a tragedy that he will not be able to personally direct the completion of the projects on which he was working so hard. He has left us, and future generations, an important legacy.”

Later in the summer, the Gallery will stage a special showing of ‘When Voices Rise’. Meanwhile, copies of the film are available from the BNG front desk.